Rwanda has risen from the ashes of genocide to become an African success story. Rwanda boasts one of Africa's fastest-growing economies , a rebuilt infrastructure, and efficient institutions Without Borders  ranks Rwanda 144 out of 180, describing its media landscape as one of the poorest in Africa

The World Bank Group has indirectly financed some of Africa's most notorious land grabs, according to The report, Unjust Enrichment: How the IFC Profits from Land Grabbing in Africa, was released today by SAG is a subsidiary of AngloGold Ashanti, a South African gold mining company with operations on three African rand (approximately $102 million) from two commercial banks located in South Africa. Africa is in the grips of a land-grabbing epidemic.

JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, founded in 2011, is in freefall. From South Sudan, John Ray of Independent Television News brings us this report. JOHN RAY: Of South Sudan’s many torments, hunger has become the greatest terror of all. So, with every exhausted step, South Sudan moves from the brink of genocide into the arms of famine. WILLIAM GAUL, South Sudan (through interpreter): I have never seen so many people die of hunger.

Earlier this year, tribal violence in West Darfur and South Darfur provinces killed around 470 people The Darfur conflict broke out when rebels from the territory’s ethnic central and sub-Saharan African

Rwanda when up to  two million Hutus crossed into the DRC  and sought refuge in camps in North and South 30 April 2024, the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO)  ended operations in South

A policy called “isolation” by residents of such regions – Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which have sought A South Ossetian professor wanted help to attend a Hungarian archaeological conference. In Abkhazia and South Ossetia, people mostly obtain Russian passports from consulates created after Moscow country’s territorial integrity by penalising, among others, businesses with actors in Abkhazia and South South Ossetia seals its boundaries with Georgia, and there are few commercial exchanges.

But within days, the South Sudanese government ordered aid workers to leave ahead of a planned offensive There are now four hunger crises across the Middle East and Africa in what is emerging as the greatest In each place – Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan – aid workers are being blocked from reaching More than 40 percent of South Sudan’s 12 million people are now classified as “food insecure.” At least 80 times a month, according to a U.N. tally, the South Sudanese authorities and rebels reject

They are scattered in several counties, including Jos South, Barkin Ladi, Riyom, Mangu and Bokkos. soldiers and policemen were active patrolling the county seat, which faces fewer threats,” said a tribal youth Civilian watchers guarding abandoned houses in Bokkos County, 40 miles south of Jos, after devastating Fulani youths have also been arrested.

The small east African country, he told AFP, is facing a population boom due to “illegal marriages,” A pro-Nkurunzinza youth group known as the Imbonerakure was heard shouting chants calling for rape.

As a state party to  numerous international human rights treaties , the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its  Maputo Protocol on Women’s Rights in Africa, Libya is legally obliged to end

Former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is the facilitator of the East African Community-led talks In Goma, Kenyatta met with DRC authorities as well as community members of North Kivu, South Kivu and Protests also took place in DRC's capital Kinshasa, the mining city of Lubumbashi, Ituri, North Kivu, South

Over 9,000 displaced people seeking a safe place to stay have moved into the church compound in Wau, South Photo: UNICEF/UN027524/Ohanesian 9 February 2017 – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in the fighting between Government and opposition forces in the west bank of the River Nile in the African Shearer today returned to the South Sudanese capital, Juba, from a two-day field visit to Bentiu and South Sudan has faced ongoing challenges since a political face-off between President Salva Kiir and