The resistance to giving up power in Africa is not unique to Ivory Coast. In fact, according to the Economist’s 2019 Democracy Index, more than half of Africa’s 55 countries are A full-scale civil war could make parts of the country’s south-east regions, where opposition to Ouattara world’s top producer of cocoa beans, should be one of the most economically prosperous countries in Africa It’s reminiscent of Cameroon’s ailing president, Paul Biya, who holds Africa’s record for the longest-serving

just returned from a week-long visit to Sudan's White Nile State as well as border and other areas in South displaced inside Sudan, while 1.2 million have fled to neighboring countries, including Chad, Egypt, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Central African Republic. "In the first months what we were seeing was a large number of South Sudanese returnees going into South added, "because of what is happening in Gaza … the funds that were intended or that could have gone to Africa

South Sudan’s president is hosting the talks in Juba, between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Popular peace talks Wednesday, officials said, the latest effort to end a decades-long conflict in the East African South Sudan President Salva Kiir is hosting the talks between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Popular Al-Hilu’s movement is Sudan’s single largest rebel group and is active in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan for years fought al-Bashir’s loyalists in Darfur but also in the southern provinces of Blue Nile and South

in gold are flowing out of Sudan in virtually every direction, helping to turn the Sahel region of Africa not the usual bush hopper used by many smugglers in Africa. “It’s the epicenter of gold laundering in Africa,” J.R. Similar concerns over “blood diamonds” from West Africa led to a U.N. Declan Walsh  is the chief Africa correspondent for The Times based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Gregory Stanton In the heart of Africa lies Darfur, a region plagued by a history of war and genocide But the UN and African Union seem to be either blind, deaf, or paralyzed. RSF massacres have terrorized hundreds of thousands of people from black African ethnic groups into forced displacement into Chad, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic. The path the UN, African Union, ECOWAS, the US, the EU, and NATO choose will define not only the fate

The Central African Republic needs to go through a thorough process of reconciliation. Anti-balaka militias in Gamba in south-east CAR in 2017. Thousands of kilometres away in Africa, the result of another fiercely contested presidential election Protests are underway in the Central African Republic (CAR) in response to the December 27 presidential They were eventually pushed back by a coalition of UN peacekeepers and Central African forces.

Africa. He recommends that it gets prioritised and discussed as part of South Africa’s national agenda, particularly “The South African justice system needs to recognise farm attacks as a criminal charge of its own with Gumbi expresses great concern over farm attacks in South Africa not being given the necessary attention According to him South Africa has the responsibility to view farm attacks as a violation of human rights

According to a disturbing report by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA), Fulani militias are: 1 Idoma 2 Igede The dominant churches or religious denominations in Benue South are: 1 Catholic Church 2 Pentecostal/Protestant churches (e.g., Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian) 3 African Churches Photo credit: Steven Kefas/Truth Nigeria Impacts of Fulani Terrorist Attacks on Benue South Communities Benue South Senator Abba Moro Decries Insecurity, Displacement Senator Abba Moro, representing Benue

of women to accuse soldiers battling a new insurgency in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern South strategic villages before attempting an audacious naval assault on Uvira, the second largest town in South In Makobola, 15 kilometres south of Uvira, the representative of a local peace organisation said at least One of the women, passing through the town to visit a hospital further south in Baraka, subsequently Further south in Sebele, another village in the Fizi region, three men were killed by Congolese soldiers

from Bronwen Dachs, which appeared yesterday in The Boston Pilot; Dachs has worked as a reporter in Africa (See my discussion of this question in “On the Obstruction of Humanitarian Aid,” African Studies Review Khartoum-sanctioned Arab militia groups that are already responsible for most of the continuing predations upon African displaced persons and in rural areas, where farms continue to be violently expropriated from their African since the February 2012, when the Tripartite Agreement on access was first proposed by the UN, the African

has 21 million people who need humanitarian aid  with 2.7 million internally displaced in North Kivu, South Western Tanzania. credit...Google Maps M23 has captured Goma and Bukavu, the capitals of North and South Kinshasa has repeatedly refused direct talks with M23, despite pressure to negotiate from Eastern African and Southern African leaders at a crisis summit on February 8 .  The African Union, UN, MONUSCO, DRC army, and M23 should negotiate a permanent ceasefire.  

The US government deported the Nigerian man - along with other West African nationals - as part of its the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, an activist organisation advocating for a breakaway state in south-west He was part of a group of West Africans deported to Ghana last month, which also included nationals of The deal for Ghana to take in nationals from various West African countries was announced by President by the US to accept the deportees, and had agreed because there was free movement of people in West Africa