NAIROBI — In parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, people now eat only green leaves for days. At a health center last week, a mother and her newborn weighing just 1.7 pounds died from hunger. In every district of the more than 20 where one aid group works…
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Cameroon Repatriates Nigerian Ex-Fighters, Family Members
YAOUNDE — More than 850 former Boko Haram fighters and their family members who escaped from the jihadist group to Cameroon have left northern Cameroon for Nigeria. Nigerian authorities say they are taking the former militants to Nigerian disarmament c…
Read moreSouth Africa’s top court rejects Zuma’s bid to overturn sentence
PRETORIA, South Africa’s top court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma had failed in his bid to have his 15-month jail sentence for failing to attend a corruption inquiry overturned.The sentence was handed down in June after Zuma failed to testi…
Read moreForgotten crisis: Families in Burundi languish as homes disappear under Lake Tanganyika
Bujumbura: At least 103,305 people have been forced from their homes by climate shocks in Burundi in recent years, where an increase in floods, storms and landslides has led to a new displacement crisis, says Save the Children. The agency spoke to hund…
Read moreUNICEF Zimbabwe Humanitarian Situation Report No. 4: 31 August 2021
5,690 children (3,189 girls and 2,501 boys), constituting 25% of the target, were admitted to community and facility-based programmes for the treatment of severe wasting from January to July 2021.Between January and August 2021, a total of 1,559,634 wo…
Read moreBiden Opens Door to Sanctions Over Tigray Conflict
WHITE HOUSE — An executive order signed Friday by U.S. President Joe Biden seeks to slap harsh sanctions on all sides involved in the war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region — including the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea.In the order, Biden said …
Read moreEx-Algerian President Bouteflika, Ousted Amid Protests, Dies at 84
ALGIERS, ALGERIA — Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who fought for independence from France, reconciled his conflict-ravaged nation and was then ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after two decades in power, has died at age 84.A …
Read moreWater Mission in Consortium Awarded $18.9 Million USAID Cooperative Agreement
N. Charleston, S.C. — Sept. 15, 2021 – Water Mission is a member of a consortium led by The Aquaya Institute that has been awarded a five-year, $18.9 million Cooperative Agreement from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for …
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