Africa

In El Obeid, Sudanese women face drones by day, rape by night, to reach water

Gender equality agency UN Women sounded the alarm this week over what it called a “dual terror” gripping the North…

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UN refugee agency reports 144 migrants dead or missing off Mauritanian coast

The migrants, many of whom were refugees, spent 25 days stranded on a boat from The Gambia headed for Spain’s…

3 days ago

Hunger deepens for displaced families in Sudan’s El Obeid

“We are providing even not the full food ration to the people, but even that reduced food ration is being…

1 week ago

WHO warns DR Congo Ebola outbreak is outpacing response as Uganda reaches milestone

Addressing reporters in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the two month-old outbreak has continued to expand despite major…

1 week ago

Looted gold and gum arabic are bankrolling Sudan’s war, UN warns

In an alert on Wednesday, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, highlighted how the country’s warring parties have looted gum…

1 week ago

‘This is a fire’: DRC Ebola outbreak is fastest-growing ever, warns WHO

Why this mattersThird-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded.Most new infections come from unknown transmission chains.Virus has spread beyond the original outbreak…

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New cholera outbreak alert for Sudan’s war-weary communities

“Cholera is back and it’s affecting several states, mainly in the western part of the country, the Darfurs and the Kordofans,”…

2 weeks ago

Use of explosive weapons ‘must stop’ in eastern DR Congo: Türk

The most recent conflict in the eastern DRC began in 2021 when the Rwandan-backed and Tutsi-led M23 militia took up…

2 weeks ago

Sudan: ‘El Obeid must not become the next crime scene’ warn UN investigators

The mission found “indicators of a genocidal path” in a report released in February. The new report builds on the earlier…

2 weeks ago

Ebola continues to spread in DRC as death toll passes 500, WHO warns

The outbreak’s “true scale has not yet been fully established,” said Dr. Anne Ancia, WHO’s representative to the DRC.“We would like to say…

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