Police in Senegal said 500 arrests were reportedly made after clashes left at least 16 people dead and more than 350 injured among protesters. The seriousness of violence has raged since the conviction by a Dakar court of the Senegalese opponent, Oussmane Sonko, President Macky Sall’s main rival. Mr. Ousmane Sonko, is sentenced to two […]

The high prevalence of infectious diseases, as well as the lack of affordable health care in the Sahel region, leads to a gap between supply and demand for medical care, forcing people to depend on street markets and unauthorized vendors as their only sources of pharmaceuticals in numerous countries. The UN and partner countries have […]

After his inauguration on May 29, the new president of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu will be expected on many issues, starting with the economy, security and corruption. But, it seems that the violence would be one of the main security challenges to which the elected president of the most populous country in Africa, will have to […]

More than two million people in Sudan are expected to go hungry in the coming months due to the ongoing violence in the country, according to UN reports. UNHCR spokeswoman Olga Sarrado refers to nearly 200,000 people who have fled Sudan since mid-April and hundreds of thousands more who are internally displaced; these, confined to […]

Thousands of migrants go missing or lose their lives every year along the migration routes. But it seems that the measures taken were not sufficient to effectively address this human tragedy that is playing out before our eyes. In 2023, Tunisia became the main point of departure for migrants who wanted to cross the Mediterranean, […]

Due to escalating conflicts, ten million children living in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to UNICEF. Some armed groups, which operate over vast territories of these three countries, resort to brutal tactics. They block towns and villages and sabotage water supply networks. For the United Nations, more […]

In a country of 45 million inhabitants where hunger affects more than a third of the population, the inhabitants, under the shock of a new crisis, are now living in anguish over a deadly attack on their home or their family. The unrest erupted as Sudan appeared to be returning to the path of democratic […]

Assamaka faces large migration flows, which can be difficult to manage for this vast, sparsely populated area with around a thousand inhabitants, including migrants. About 1,300 vulnerable migrants pass through this city every month. In Niger, the Assamaka transit center has more than 4,000 migrants including Malians, Guineans, Ivorians, Syrians, Bangladeshis. They arrived there after […]

France occupied Algeria for 132 years, before Algeria’s independence in March 1962 after a savage and bloody war which lasted over seven years. Algerian authorities reported that 1.5 million people were killed in the war, while many French historians claimed that the number of those killed was half a million, mainly Algerians. History provides evidence […]