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The price of grain has already exceeded the cost of the same commodity at the beginning of the Arab Spring in 2011 and the 2007-2008 food riots, the UN warns.
Internally Displaced Persons from southern Senegal have been finding their way into neighbouring Gambia following skirmishes between Senegalese forces and Casamance rebels on Sunday.
As the world considers becoming less dependent on Russian gas in the wake of its costly invasion of Ukraine, is Africa’s share of this precious commodity estimated at 221.6 trillion cubic feet suddenly part of ‘the energy solution Europe so desperately needs?.
On the fourteenth day of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Senegalese president and current chairman of the African Union (AU) tried to convince his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to stop the bombing.
For 16 months, in an often hidden and ignored armed conflict in northern Ethiopia, warring parties have doubly victimized women and girls, subjecting them to widespread, horrific acts of sexual violence, Human Rights Watch says in a report on Tuesday.
As the Russian invasion rages in Ukraine, many people, including Africans, continue to flock to the borders in a desperate attempt to leave the war-ravaged country, with the African Union deploring their mistreatment.
The national conference on transition in Burkina Faso has set a transition period of three years.
The international community still awaits Africa’s unequivocal reaction more than 24 hours after Russian ground and air forces poured into neighbouring Ukraine in an invasion that has taken the world by surprise.
The rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region last year, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
The rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have intensified their preparedness for a military offensive in Ethiopia’s Afar region, displacing over 300,000 residents from the region, according to the federal government.