Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa have both called on their fellow

were conducted with the assistance of President Nyerere of Tanzania and President Nelson Mandela of South Africa. Security was provided by South African police, who physically protected Buyoya and others in the peace The CNDD-FDD’s youth wing, the Imbonerakure, intimidates voters, conducting assault, murder, and sexual

intractable ethnoreligious conflict, the humanitarian crises arising from same will submerge the whole of Africa splinter groups), Ansaru or Movement for the Emancipation of Muslims in Black Africa, Jihadist Fulani Further, Nigeria is also likely to have emerged as Africa’s safest haven for illicitly procured and held took 53 involving Southwest 23 including Muslims among the 23, South-south took 20 and Southeast took 2020 in Nigeria and 34,600 since the 2009-plus unveiling of a new wave of anti-Christian butcheries in Africa

announced on Thursday they were withdrawing charges against a former militia leader from the Central African confederation of militia groups that formed in response to an outbreak of sectarian violence in the Central African More than 5,000 people have died in the conflict in the Central African Republic, and more than 1.1 million

But while there has been no major fighting in Tigray since negotiators inked the deal in Pretoria, South Africa, in November 2022, the aftershocks of the conflict continue to be felt. It also drew in troops from Eritrea and Ethiopia’s Amhara region, south of Tigray, both fighting on the

rejection is soul destroying" Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International's Deputy Director for Southern Africa is soul destroying,” said Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Southern Africa to parents with a claim to citizenship of any SADC state - including Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and South Africa - is a Zimbabwean citizen by birth. Mugabe-led ZANU-PF and the Joshua Nkomo-led ZAPU led to an eruption of violence between the Zimbabwe African

The United Nations is investigating the alleged killing of dozens of people in the Central African Republic “Central African forces and the Russians are committing a massacre,” the source told AFP news agency, United Nations say at least some are from the Wagner group, which now has an armed presence in several African At the last meeting of the UN Security Council on the conflict in the Central African Republic, the United

“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP [Islamic State West Africa Province] and demonstrate

People in affected areas say they are still waiting for government help after more than 300 deaths and widespread devastation People in Kinshasa’s Pompage district in January after the Congo River overflowed. Photograph: Arsene Mpiana/AFP/Getty Images The Guardian Patrice Citera in Kinshasa 2 February 2024 Tens of thousands of people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are living in temporary accommodation and waiting for government help after the country experienced its worst flooding in six decades. More than 300 people have died and 280,000 households in more than half the country have been forced to leave their homes since heavy rains started at the end of November. More than 1,500 schools, 267 health centres, 211 markets and 146 roads have been damaged. In January, the government declared a hydrological and ecological catastrophe after the Congo River overflowed, flooding the capital, Kinshasa. The country’s president, Félix Tshisekedi, who won his second term in office in December after a contested election, last week ordered ministers to deal with the crisis. Last Saturday, the minister for humanitarian action, Modeste Mutinga Mutuishayi, was dispatched to oversee the distribution of blankets, pots and tents to 900 households in the capital. But Jackson Lukungula, from Tshopo province in north-eastern DRC, said: “The government remains silent about this flooding. The government is yet to send people to affected provinces. “We have a high school here in Kisangani which is overwhelmed. The government does not act. Many pupils are changing the way they travel to school because the usual streets are flooded.” He said a Catholic convent was under water “but the central government and the provincial government are not acting”. Flooded houses next to the Congo River in the Mbudi area of Kinshasa last month. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Mado Ekembe, from Cité du Fleuve, a Kinshasa housing estate that lies along the banks of the Congo River, said she was not surprised at the inaction “because we always face flooding without getting help from the Congolese government”. “Our wish is that authorities in our country act like those of neighbouring countries such as Republic of Congo, on the other side of the Congo River. When there is a disaster there, government agents turn up quickly; they brings food and essential items that will help affected people. But here, the authorities don’t do anything. We’ve never seen or heard from the government when such flooding hit us.” At least 17 people have died and 320,000 people have been affected by flooding in the Republic of Congo, whose capital, Brazzaville, sits on the opposite riverbank from Kinshasa. The chief of staff at DRC’s ministry of humanitarian affairs, Jackson Luneno, said people’s needs were still being assessed as water levels and impassable roads made it difficult for officials to visit many of the flooded areas. The ministry is also waiting for the treasury to sign off an emergency budget. “Our challenge has also been money. We have a budget of 2bn [Congolese francs] this year,” Luneno said. “Our humanitarian affairs’ management system is still in its infancy. We are working with UN agencies to design a humanitarian intervention system that will allow us to be always ready when disasters happen.” Japan has donated tents, blankets and mattresses to the relief effort and China has given $100,000 (£78,000) in aid. “We hope others will follow once our teams finish identifying our country’s needs,” Luneno said. A displaced person at a shelter in the Kinshasa area. Photograph: Xinhua News Agency/Eyevine The charity Médecins Sans Frontières has opened an emergency clinic in Kinshasa. So far it has treated 150 people for malaria and 65 for typhoid fever. “Some patients describe anxiety and suicide because they have lost everything,” said Dago Inagbe, MSF’s head of mission in Kinshasa. Emmanuel Yaki, a 70-year-old retired mechanic from the capital’s Kinsuka-Pêcheurs neighbourhood, is selling pieces of wood and furniture that bob past his compound. “This week I sold a doorway for 23,000 francs. It was made of black wood. I grabbed it with a hook. I expect to sell wood and planks to traders.” Most homes in Kinsuka-Pêcheurs were flooded. Yaki was able to save some of his belongings because his house is on two floors. “At the end of every year we experience some flooding, but this time it is too huge,” he said, picking up plastic bottles as they floated past his home. Alice Shabani, 52, is hosting three families who have nowhere to live. “When I heard people screaming that water was invading their houses behind my plot [of land], I did not hesitate to welcome them into my house,” she said. “You feel like crying as though it has happened to you.” Shabani said the water had reached the edge of her property, and worries her house could be damaged if more rain comes. © 2024 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. (dcr)

out of total expenditures of $9.3 million, total grants by Save Darfur to recipients in Sub-Saharan Africa France was not tied down in the Iraq and Afghan wars, and because of France’s historic influence in Africa Omar al-Bashir became persona non grata  in Uganda, South Africa, and other countries. After the 2011 referendum in South Sudan, when South Sudan voted to become independent, Sudan demanded South Sudan stopped producing oil and Sudan threatened war. 

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Published by The Africa Report on Wednesday, 21 October 2020. letter to the Chief of Army Staff of Nigeria, General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, by academic and editor of African In South Africa, the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 pushed South Africa out of the international fold, “If Biden wins, Africa policy will be guided by a cadre of seasoned experts who understand what a normal Copyright © 2020 The Africa Report. All Rights Reserved.