Category: Africa

October 4, 2018//-When Rani Hong was 7 years old she was kidnapped and enslaved in her home country of India. When she wasn’t forced to work, her captors kept her in a cage.

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 4, 2018/ — Three Red Cross volunteers were injured Tuesday when they were attacked while carrying out a safe and dignified burial in the city of Butembo in the north east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

October 2, 2018//-While Jennifer Lawrence took to the stage at United Nations General Assembly to discuss democracy in crisis, in Comoros, former President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi languishes in a prison-like situation in Moroni and is denied access to his lawyer in private.

September 30, 2018//-Kenyan law professor and former director of the anti-corruption commission PLO Lumumba was on Saturday refused entry to Zambia due to “security considerations”, authorities said.

Cameroon is in crisis. It needs an intervention. Shutterstock Julius A. Amin, University of Dayton Cameroon’s Anglophone region is rapidly becoming a no-go zone. Thousands of residents fled to the country’s French speaking cities of Douala, Yaoundé, and Bafoussam, during August and September, anticipating more bloodshed before the country’s October presidential elections.

Yaounde, Cameroon, September 28, 2018/ — Relentless conflict and insecurity throughout the lean the annual lean season pushed 6.1 million people – nearly 60 percent of the population – into extreme hunger in South Sudan, though the situation could improve if a sustainable peace takes hold, three United Nations agencies said today.

So far this year, about 86 000 migrants have come to Europe from Africa Oslo, Norway, September 24, 2018/ — The loss of thousands of lives on the journey across the Sahara and the Mediterranean is a terrible tragedy.

September 23, 2018//-For a fleeting few days, perhaps even weeks, the mounting body count from the MV Nyerere disaster – officially more than 200 – is likely to focus attention of the lack of maritime safety in East Africa.

September 22, 2018//-Tanzania has suspended broadcasting of family planning advertisements by a US-funded project, a health ministry letter showed, a fortnight after President John Magufuli said family planning was for those “too lazy to take care of their children”.

Geneva, Switzerland, September 17, 2018/ — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has condemned in the strongest terms the tragic killing of its abducted colleague Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa.