Aid Group Implores Burkina Faso Government to Accept Assistance in Registering Newly Displaced
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO – International aid groups are calling on Burkina Faso’s government to let them help register the country’s internally displaced people. The Norwegian Refugee Council says the government is taking weeks to register IDPs for fo…
Guinea’s Junta Begins Meetings to Form Transitional Government
The junta that overthrew Guinea’s government more than a week ago began four days of meetings Tuesday that it says will result in the formation of a transitional government. The junta that ousted President Alpha Conde said it would consult in the cap…
Benin Named Fastest Place to Start Business Online – Thanks to COVID ?
COTONOU, BENIN – Benin set up a service early in the COVID-19 pandemic to allow people to register their business online, and now the West African country is the world’s fastest place to start a business, according to a U.N. agency. Sandra Idossou, own…
Bachelet Says Tigray Conflict Risks Engulfing Whole Horn of Africa
GENEVA – U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet warns the increasingly brutal conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region threatens to spill over to the whole Horn of Africa.Preliminary findings of a joint investigation by the U.N. …
In Conservative Somalia, A Rare Woman Presidential Candidate
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The woman who broke barriers as the first female foreign minister and deputy prime minister in culturally conservative Somalia now aims for the country’s top office as the Horn of Africa nation moves toward a long-delayed president…
Armed Groups Killing, Recruiting More Children in Niger, Report Says
ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST – Increasing numbers of children are being killed or targeted for recruitment by armed groups in conflicts raging at Niger’s borders with Mali and Burkina Faso, Amnesty International said in a report published Monday. “In Niger’s T…
A Tale of 2 COVID Vaccine Clinics: Lines in Kenya, Few Takers in Atlanta
NAIROBI – Several hundred people line up every morning, starting before dawn, on a grassy area outside Nairobi’s largest hospital hoping to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Sometimes the line moves smoothly, while on other days, the staff tells them there’s n…
With More Doses, Uganda Takes Vaccination Drive to Markets
KAMPALA, UGANDA – At a taxi stand by a bustling market in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, traders simply cross a road or two, get a shot in the arm and rush back to their work.Until this week, vaccination centers were based mostly in hospitals in this East …
Violence Against Civilians in Eastern DRC Reaching New Heights, UN Says
The U.N. refugee agency is calling for more effective measures to protect millions of civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo subjected to killings, kidnappings and savage abuse by armed groups. Dozens of armed groups have been committing vi…
African Union Suspends Guinea After Coup
The African Union said on Friday it was suspending Guinea after a coup in the West African country that saw its president Alpha Conde arrested.The pan-African body said on Twitter that it “decides to suspend the Republic of Guinea from all AU activitie…