July 17, 2023
Africa: Time to Revalue African Economies, African Development Bank Chief Says
The year 2023 has so far not been a good one for Africa. Conflict has erupted in Sudan, deepened in the Democratic Republic of Congo and spread southward from the Sahel. Read more »
Africa: Understanding the Implications of No Black Sea Grain Deal
Russia said Monday it is ending its participation in a wartime deal that allowed Ukraine safe passage to export grain from three Ukrainian ports past Russian warships on the Black… Read more »
Sudan: Sudan Slipping Deeper Into Hunger, Poverty - Report
The ongoing war between Sudan's military and a paramilitary force has placed the country in jeopardy of not being able to feed itself and has thrown many people into deeper depths… Read more »
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Imposes Blockade On Baidoa Town in Somalia
Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has condemned the militant group al-Shabab for imposing a weeklong blockade on the southwestern town of Baidoa. Authorities say the Islamist… Read more »
July 15, 2023
Sudan: UN - Sudan Health Care Near Collapse Due to Conflict
United Nations agencies said Friday that millions of Sudanese cannot obtain treatment for emergency and chronic health conditions because fighting has brought the country's fragile… Read more »
July 14, 2023
Sudan: Sudanese Activists Call for Probe of Alleged Rapes
Sudanese activists are calling for an investigation into reports of rape, sexual assault and other gender-based violence during the fighting in Sudan. Read more »
South Africa: Zuma's Prison Release Ruled Unlawful
South Africa's Constitutional Court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma's early release from prison because of claimed medical conditions was unlawful. Read more »
Nigeria: Authorities Declare State of Emergency On Food Security
Nigerian authorities have declared a national emergency on food security as record inflation has made basic foods unaffordable for many and has pushed up malnutrition rates. Read more »
Kenya: Al-Shabaab Kills Police Officers, Teacher in Northeastern Kenya
Suspected al-Shabab militants killed two police officers and a teacher early Friday morning in an attack on the Wargadud police camp in the Mandera South area, in Kenya's… Read more »
July 13, 2023
West Africa: UNHCR Concerned About Forced Repatriation of Burkinabe Refugees From Ghana
UNHCR, the U.N.'s refugee agency, has expressed concern about reports that Ghana's armed forces this week deported hundreds of asylum-seekers who were fleeing an insurgency in… Read more »
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Attacks Somali Base Handed Over By AU Forces
Al-Shabab fighters have attacked a Somali military base handed over by Kenyan forces late last month as part of an African Union troop drawdown. Read more »
Africa: African Leaders At Business Summit Call for Extension of Trade Deal With U.S.
Leaders at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Botswana have urged renewal of the long-standing Africa Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA). Read more »
Malawi: Religious Leaders Protest Same-Sex Marriage
Religious leaders in Malawi led street protests Thursday against same-sex marriage, as a Dutch citizen and a transgender Malawian challenge laws in Malawi's High Court against… Read more »
Sudan: International Criminal Court to Investigate Report of Mass Grave
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Thursday that his office is investigating reports that at least 87 people were found in a mass grave in Sudan's West… Read more »
South Africa: China's Huawei Launches Innovation Center in South Africa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday welcomed the opening of a new Huawei Innovation Center in Johannesburg, praising the Chinese company for its "confidence in the… Read more »
Africa: Egypt Holds Conference With Sudan's Neighbours On New Ceasefire
Egypt is seeking ways to make an elusive cease-fire hold in the bloody Sudan conflict that has killed thousands and forced Sudan's residents into at least six neighboring countries… Read more »
July 12, 2023
Mozambique: Many of Mozambique's Internally Displaced Fear Returning Home
Hasmane Alfa was 18 when armed men attacked his home village of Quissanga, in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province. Read more »
Nigeria: Activists Alarmed by Burning of Vessel Loaded With Stolen Crude
Environmental activists in Nigeria are raising alarms after the military this week burned a ship with more than 800,000 liters of stolen crude oil. Read more »
Uganda: Government Rejects Torture Allegations
Uganda's government is rejecting claims that top officials, including President Yoweri Museveni and his son, were responsible for the torture of political opponents. Read more »
West Africa: Yaounde Hosted Sahel Cross-Boundary Pastoralists Forum Proposes Peacekeeping
Ministers from eight of Africa's Sahel region countries are meeting in Cameroon to try to end conflicts between farmers and nomadic herders. The ministers say seasonal movement of… Read more »
Africa: Conflict, Climate Change, Inequality Trigger Surge in Global Hunger
Hopes of ending hunger by the end of this decade have all but evaporated as multiple crises -- climate change, the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts, including… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Court Disqualifies Former Ruling Party Official From Elections
Zimbabwe's Electoral Court has disqualified a former minister and senior ruling party official who fled the country from running in next month's election. The court ruled Savior… Read more »
July 11, 2023
West Africa: Separatists Torch Trucks of Cocoa As Farmers Protest Ban on Exports to Nigeria
Cameroon's anglophone rebels have torched truckloads of cocoa that were bound for French-speaking towns as farmers protest a ban of exports to Nigeria. Read more »
South Africa: Business Groups Concerned As U.S. Reviews Trade Programme
South African business groups are pushing the government to make strong diplomatic efforts to ensure the country is not stripped of its duty-free access to the U.S. market. Read more »
Africa: WFP - Growing Number of Refugees From Sudan's Darfur Region Crossing Into Chad
The United Nations food agency says thousands of people are crossing the border into the central African nation of Chad from neighboring Sudan to escape the nearly three-month-old… Read more »
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