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  • Cameroon: Life Sentence for Activist Sparks Outrage

    he denounced torture committed and broadcast online by the leader of a pro-government militia in the south-west standards. - Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Interim Regional Director for West and Central Africa standards,” said Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Interim Regional Director for West and Central Africa

  • FAMINE ROILS WAR-TORN SOUTH SUDAN

    Not long after midnight on a hot summer day, the streets of South Sudan’s capital city, Juba, rang with chants of "Freedom" and “South Sudan, oh yay!” On that day in July of 2011, South Sudan was on the cusp of new greatness. In February, the United Nations officially declared famine in parts of South Sudan. “With more than a quarter of a million children estimated to be severely malnourished in South Sudan,

  • Russia to pitch first camp in Africa with military base in Somaliland

    If this happens, then Russia will join the list of powerful countries with bases in the Horn of Africa to have access to loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. © 2018 Face 2 Face Africa

  • Ten Dead in Islamic State Mozambique Attacks

    displaced and conservation work halted as series of killings jeopardises decades of work in Niassa, one of Africa At 4.2m hectares (10m acres), Niassa is home to lions, African wild dogs, and recovering populations Photograph: WCS Moçambique One of Africa’s largest protected areas has been shaken by a series of attacks There are very few places like this in Africa with no fences, with large populations of lions, elephants At 4.2m hectares (10m acres), Niassa is regarded as one of Africa’s most important wildlife refuges.

  • Ten dead in 'brutal' attacks by ISIS-linked militants on Mozambique wildlife reserve

    displaced and conservation work halted as series of killings jeopardises decades of work in Niassa, one of Africa At 4.2m hectares (10m acres), Niassa is home to lions, African wild dogs, and recovering populations Photograph: WCS Moçambique One of Africa’s largest protected areas has been shaken by a series of attacks There are very few places like this in Africa with no fences, with large populations of lions, elephants At 4.2m hectares (10m acres), Niassa is regarded as one of Africa’s most important wildlife refuges.

  • Israeli drone strikes kill four in southern Lebanon

    news agency reports at least four people have been killed in two separate attacks in the country’s south Public Health has said that at least four people have been killed in two separate Israeli strikes in south Thursday’s strikes were the latest in a series of deadly attacks in south Lebanon, despite a November killed and another wounded in the Israeli drone targeting … of a car in the town [of] Maaroub”, also in south up in fighting Last weekend saw the most intense escalation since the truce, with Israeli strikes on south

  • Hate Speech and Genocide in Minembwe, D.R. Congo

    The racist theory claims that all “civilization” in Africa was the result of Caucasian invaders from North-East Africa . Africa) or a Vatican (within Italy) within the DRC: « …. additionally vilifies the Mbororo, a nomadic group that is persecuted and displaced across Central Africa Thomas Shacklock is a research analyst for the DRC and Central & Western Africa at Genocide Watch.

  • Togo: AFED intentisifes campaign against gender-based violence

    for Development (AFED) under its “Voix Essentielles” project, with financial support from Speak Up Africa This initiative forms part of AFED’s “Voix Essentielles” project, supported by Speak Up Africa, which seeks to strengthen the fight against gender-based violence in the Blitta prefecture. © 2025 African

  • Almost 80,000 flee DR Congo amid fighting, sexual violence: UNHCR

    Eba told journalists that that North and South Kivu provinces remain unstable, with “hundreds of thousands M23 forced evictions Inside North and South Kivu, “significant” population movements have continued, There are over one million Congolese refugees across Africa, mainly in neighbouring countries.

  • The children of South Sudan's war face hunger, rape and other violence on their long, often-soli

    Obede Lutana fled South Sudan as a refugee in the company of a neighbor. fighting has forced nearly a third of the country’s 12 million people to flee their homes, resulting in Africa Life was hardly good for South Sudan’s children even before the war. The Times) How children ended up traveling alone through some of the most violent war corridors in Africa Benson Yakani, 8, a South Sudanese refugee, was orphaned when his father was shot by soldiers in South

  • Yet Again, Kalma camp (South Darfur) for displaced persons is the scene of deadly violence by Kharto

    Yet again, Kalma camp for displaced persons—just outside Nyala, capital of South Darfur, has been the of occasions—the final stage of the Darfur genocide will have begun. ****************************** South The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur said it is deeply concerned about clashes Since 2003, 80% – 90% of Darfur’s African villages have been destroyed, and more than 2.5 million survivors have fled to squalid camps across Darfur, eastern Chad and the Central African Republic.

  • Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis

    By Bono I’VE recently returned from the Middle East and East Africa, where I visited a number of refugee year or two — that the mass exodus from collapsed countries like Syria is not just a Middle Eastern or African don’t want and can’t afford is to have important countries in the Sahel, the band of countries just south I keep hearing calls from a real gathering of forces — Africans and Europeans, army generals and World Well, hope is not lost in the Middle East and North Africa, not yet, not even where it’s held together

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