Burkina Faso is confronted like many of its neighbors with the violence of terrorist groups. Regular attacks by armed movements affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the El group have caused thousands of deaths there and some ...
Niger is already going through a serious food crisis with more than 4.4 million people in « severe » food insecurity, i.e. 20% of the population. This poor country with an arid climate suffers from poor harvests ...
UNICEF has highlighted the number of drought-affected people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia which has risen from 9.5 million in February to 16.2 million in July, putting children and their families at increased risk of ...
Somalia was hit in 2011-2012 by a famine that killed around 260,000 people, half of whom were children under the age of five. In 2017, another disaster was averted thanks to an early mobilization of ...
The International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) aims to celebrate the significant contributions of people of African descent around the world. It also aims to advance policies of social justice and inclusion, eradicate ...
The violence had a significant impact on the education of Ukrainian children; the country’s education system has been devastated by the escalation of hostilities and families do not feel safe sending their children to school. ...
The number of refugees is continuously increasing, and as reported by the UN (2022), every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution, or terror. Today, many refugees are enduring protracted displacement, and ...
In East Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has announced that more than 50 million people are expected to face an acute food insecurity crisis this year. It was because of this crisis that ...
This Sunday several hundred people took to the streets to once again chant their opposition to the coup d’etat by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, who has ruled Sudan since October. The United Nations and the ...
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse socio-economic impacts throughout Africa, the crisis in Ukraine threatens to place an excessive burden on African households, most of which were previously struggling to make ...