proverb, suggesting that disaster can be prevented but not easily controlled, feels very apt for East Africa to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia’s expansionist ambitions and reckless designs, the Horn of Africa For all its precariousness, East Africa is vital for international commerce and security. An unstable East Africa poses a risk to the entire world. But the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are too important to become another war zone, and East Africa is

The first famine in six years has been declared in the world's newest nation, South Sudan. As it stands, 1 million men, women and children are on the brink of starvation in South Sudan. And 4.9 million people -- more than 40 percent of South Sudan's population -- are in need of urgent food Plan South Sudan estimates 100,000 girls are currently at immediate risk of harm. during the response to the last two famines, first in 1991 in Somalia and then during the 2011 East African

1994, I was assigned to the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs as the Africa Security Council resolutions on Africa. I insisted that the trials be held in Africa as near to the site of the genocide as possible, so that President Clinton announced it on his trip to Africa in 1998. When I was a Fulbright Professor of Law in Swaziland, Tex was US Consul General in Durban, South Africa

August 6 2024: Reacting to the continued failure to take meaningful steps by African and global human Ethiopia’s Amhara region a year ago, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa -Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International's Regional Director for East and Southern Africa “Despite claims “African and global human rights bodies were established to prevent and respond to gross human rights -Tigere Chagutah “It is long overdue for the African and global human rights bodies to bring Ethiopia

Relatives of the six aid workers who were killed grieve as they wait outside a morgue in Juba, South South Sudan's government told VOA's Daybreak Africa that opposition forces loyal to former First Vice Relatives of the six slain aid workers grieve in Juba, South Sudan, March 27, 2017. Twelve aid workers have been killed so far this year in South Sudan. It has added to the latest of the security concerns in South Sudan,” said Straziuso.

It remains crippled by the loss of millions in annual oil revenue since South Sudan seceded in 2011. When Sudanese Liberation Movement insurgents briefly re-entered Darfur (from both Libya and South Sudan A meeting between Presidents Bashir and Sisi on the margins of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa ability to do so is likely to be tested further over the coming months. https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa /horn-africa/sudan/can-sudan-manage-economic-discontent-amid-volatile-geopolitics?

Rédaction Africanews with AP A charred helmet  -  Copyright © africanews Jerome Delay/AP A separatist The West African nation, along with neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger, has for more than a decade battled civilian-populated areas indiscriminately, said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South SOURCE: Africanews

Human Rights Watch June 20, 2024 The African Union logo outside the AU headquarters building in Addis long-awaited positive step to addressing one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises,” said Allan Ngari, Africa ACHPR), a quasi-judicial mechanism tasked with promoting and protecting human and collective rights in Africa The ACHPR mandate-holders on refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced persons and migrants in Africa and the rights of women in Africa should bring their thematic expertise to investigation efforts.

appalling and pointless loss of life,” said the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South The attack – the single worst incident targeting aid workers in the African country since the outbreak who rely on our assistance for their survival,” said Eugene Owusu, the Humanitarian Coordinator for South The conflict has taken a devastating tool on the people of South Sudan: around 7.5 million people are No safety when attacks met with silence At least 79 aid workers have been killed in South Sudan since

displacement, rape, and bombardment,” Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa UN-backed IPC food security analysis confirmed famine conditions in El Fasher and in the capital of South In South Kordofan, a drone strike reportedly hit the town of Um Barmbeeta, destroying a school and injuring

South Sudan's leaders must end a civil war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions, center, serves maize meal to refugees in the food distribution tent of the Imvepi reception center for South Uganda that is aimed at raising global awareness of the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis and urged South (AP Photo/Rodney Muhumuza) "The leaders of South Sudan have not deserved the people they have," Antonio More than 1.8 million people have crossed into neighboring countries since the start of South Sudan's

With support from the Russian government, South Ossetian separatists attempted to break away from Georgia Russia believed controlling South Ossetia would prevent Georgia from obtaining NATO membership. South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not recognized as independent states by the UN. Russian state television claimed that Georgia was carrying out a genocide in South Ossetia. Russia should remove all its forces from South Ossetia and Abkhazia.