International
On October 6, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a campaign to raise awareness and encourage suicide prevention. Africa is home to six of the ten countries with the highest suicide rates in the world. Africa has the highest suicide death rate in the world. This continent is home to six of the ten countries […]
345 million people around the world suffer from acute hunger, a number that has more than doubled since 2019 238 NGOs from 75 countries have signed an open letter to express their outrage at the explosion in the number of hungry people while making recommendations addressed to world leaders. NGOs have denounced the death of […]
Burkina Faso is confronted like many of its neighbors with the violence of terrorist groups. Regular attacks by armed movements affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the El group have caused thousands of deaths there and some two million displaced since 2015. In an attack that took place on Monday, September 26, at least eleven soldiers were […]
Niger is already going through a serious food crisis with more than 4.4 million people in “severe” food insecurity, i.e. 20% of the population. This poor country with an arid climate suffers from poor harvests to which are added recurrent terrorist violence, particularly against peasants. The heavy rains that have been falling on Niger since […]
UNICEF has highlighted the number of drought-affected people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia which has risen from 9.5 million in February to 16.2 million in July, putting children and their families at increased risk of contract diseases such as cholera and diarrhoea. More than 2.8 million children in Kenya and Ethiopia already suffer from severe […]
Somalia was hit in 2011-2012 by a famine that killed around 260,000 people, half of whom were children under the age of five. In 2017, another disaster was averted thanks to an early mobilization of the international community and today, as Mr. Griffiths points out, “we are at the last minute of the eleventh hour […]
The International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) aims to celebrate the significant contributions of people of African descent around the world. It also aims to advance policies of social justice and inclusion, eradicate racism and intolerance, promote human rights and help create better and more prosperous communities, in line with the Sustainable Development […]
The violence had a significant impact on the education of Ukrainian children; the country’s education system has been devastated by the escalation of hostilities and families do not feel safe sending their children to school. The war in Ukraine started six months ago, taking a heavy toll on children. It wreaked havoc on a scale […]
The number of refugees is continuously increasing, and as reported by the UN (2022), every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution, or terror. Today, many refugees are enduring protracted displacement, and living under legal and economic uncertainties. Refugees are among the most vulnerable people in the world; Whoever they are, those […]
Since 2015, Burkina Faso has been plagued by terrorist attacks that have claimed many victims and more than 1.9 million internally displaced people. Terrorist attacks in this country have even multiplied in recent months, targeting civilians and soldiers alike. Recently, simultaneous attacks by jihadists in northern Burkina Faso killed nine civilian army auxiliaries and three […]
