https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ethiopians-head-home-after-yemen-migrant-life-becomes-untenable-2021-04-14/ Coronavirus restrictions and higher drowning rates are reversing the flow for some refugees headed back into the Horn of Africa. Many have reached Yemen to face further hardships there, where war also wages, or get sent there or back to Ethiopia by other countries fearing the spread of COVID 19. Around 1,000 Ethiopian refugees have gone back, while more… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/special-report-health-official-alleges-sexual-slavery-tigray-women-blame-2021-04-15/ There are reports of sexual assault by the Ethiopian and allied Eritrian soilders from those in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Not only assault, but claims of sexual slavery have also been made by a top public government health official, Doctor Fasika Amdesalassie. Many other doctors have now told the press that other rape victims have described their attackers to be… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/africa-cdc-says-cannot-predict-when-second-covid-19-shots-will-arrive-2021-04-15/ Deliveries for the second COVID 19 vaccine dose have been delayed, and the CDC says it “cannot predict when the second doses will come”. 14 million out of 1.3 billion people have received the vaccine, so there still is a long way to go. The vaccine was being delivered from the WHO approved COVAX facility, which sourced their doses… Read more »
A Rwandan women who was deported from the U.S was just put on trial for the Rwandan genocide back in 1994. Beatrice Muny, will be tried for murder and complicity in rape charges when she was manning a road block when the genocide was taking place. She was sent back to Rwanda for lying about her naturalization process. I think… Read more »
Liberian Sen. Nyonblee Karnga is demanding the need for more female representation on the Collaborating Political Parties ticket. The December Special Senatorial Elections showed that if the 4 major opposion political groups worked together they could all achieve a lot for the country. However, deciding who gets to head the ticket is causing disagreement between the 4. Karnga beleives that it needs… Read more »
An American Rap artist and signer named Akon recently visited Uganda with the goal of creating a city that would helped boost the economy is Uganda and increase tourism. Akon met with the controversial long time president of Uganda Yoweri Museveni, who has been believed to have rigged previous elections so that he can stay in power. Citizens do not… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/stories/202104130380.html South Sudanese traders have faced increased difficulty as protests have occurred over highway attacks from Keyan and Ugandan truck drivers. The catalyst was a Ugandan lobby for truck drivers that claimed that eight of their members had been murdered in highway robbery incidents. Additionally, a Keyan association claimed similar circumstances with three dead and missing trucks found torched in… Read more »
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-sudan-peacekeeping-forces-antonio-guterres-united-nations-d60645513958f441896723354dd83aea U.N. Secretary Guterres has reported to the Security Council that the 3,700 force stabilizing the Abyei region could not be terminated early. It was discussed that the reason for this being the unsteady nature of the relationship between Sudan and South Sudan. More specifically, the UNISFA, or the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei, is in place due… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/06/africa/owerri-nigeria-prison-overrun-intl/index.html Almost two thousand inmates were broken out of a Nigerian prison as a result of explosives used on an administrative block. There has been blame placed on the secessionist group IPOB or the Indigenous People of Biafra and it’s parliamentary group the Eastern Security Network. The group has past transgressions against the Nigerian state, as they also attempted to… Read more »
