International
Although they have decreased significantly, humanitarian needs will nevertheless remain significant this year in the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN warned on Thursday; noting that with 50% of the population not having enough to eat, this Central African country has one of the largest proportions of people “in a situation of critical food insecurity […]
Most countries by now agree that a transition away from fossil fuel production or consumption to renewables is inevitable, but a key issue is the continent’s right to a just transition. African countries recognize the serious threats posed by climate change and are already taking steps to address them. The Horn of Africa suffered a […]
The RED-Tabara rebels have always rejected President Evariste Ndayishimiye’s invitation to dialogue, recalling that they set as a prerequisite “the negotiation of the conditions for organizing democratic, free, inclusive and transparent elections”. Twenty people, including 19 civilians, were killed Friday evening in western Burundi, in an attack claimed by the rebel group RED-Tabara. This is […]
The report, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), describes the current state of national food systems, providing a baseline that can be used to guide investment, research and policy priorities and assess future progress… Read the report
Climate change appears to be one of the main factors of migration in Africa. The COP 28 conference in Dubai was marked this Sunday by events organized on the occasion of World Human Rights Day. Ozawa Bineshi Albert, head of the Climate Justice Alliance group, is calling for an end to what she says is […]
This year’s conference to mark the 75th anniversary of the Genocide Convention had the theme “A living force in global society: the legacy of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Every 9 December, the Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide marks the adoption of […]
The DRC government must act against ethnic violence in the country. Above all, it must develop effective and more serious measures to stem this type of violence. Perpetrators of ethnic violence must be held accountable, and people arrested by the government solely because of their ethnicity must be released. The murder of a soldier on […]
The Africa’s peoples, who are experiencing some of the worst effects of rising global temperatures, need serious action to respond to deadly climate extremes. Last week, in the streets of Dakar, rural Senegalese women demanding climate justice expressed their suffering from the effects of climate change. For Mouhamadou Lamine Seck, lawyer specializing in the environment, […]
For several decades, the Congolese people, under the pressure of multiple crises, have been deprived of their most fundamental rights. For IOM, the DRC is facing one of the largest internal displacement and humanitarian crises in the world, requiring intensified efforts to address this complex and ongoing crisis. As reported by the International Organization for […]
The Horn of Africa, where extreme weather events are occurring with increased frequency and intensity, is one of the region’s most vulnerable to climate change. At least 111 people, including 16 children, have died and 700,000 displaced in floods caused in recent weeks by torrential rains hitting the Horn of Africa, According to Save the […]
