Link to article – https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00081739.html Summary – A group of international aid organizations has reported that West Africa is facing its worst food crisis in a decade due to increasing conflict, drought, flooding, and the war in Ukraine that is affecting food prices and worsening an already disastrous situation. Over 27 million people are already suffering from Hunger in the… Read more »
Link to article – https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00081669.html Sumary – Many countries are beginning to rely on new sources for oil amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Europe is facing a supply gap in oil, leading prospectors to point to Africa for a new source of oil. There are talks of a large shift to Africa as Europes next “gas station”. Several producers… Read more »
Link to article – https://allafrica.com/stories/202204080088.html Summary – A report has uncovered that 90% of Ghanas industrial trawl fleet is actually owned by Chinese companies using fronts to illegally evade the law. China is the worlds biggest fish producer and many of their fish come from illegal fishing practices. EJF reported the uncovering of illegal, unreported, unregulated and human rights abuses… Read more »
link – https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/legislators-from-great-lakes-region-meet-in-nairobi-3772386 Summary- 10 countries from the Great Lakes region of Africa are sending parliament members to Nairobi for talks about conflict resolution and peace. The international Conference of the Great Lakes Region or ICGLR has 12 members, two of which will not be attending. This is because Sudan has no sitting parliament, and Uganda is mourning Speaker Jacob Oulanya…. Read more »
Link – https://allafrica.com/stories/202204050347.html Summary- Rwanda and Zambia have signed seven pacts so far to deepen relations and bolster bilateral ties. The agreements vary in topic from taxation and immigration to agriculture. The agreements were signed by Zambia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Stanley Kakubo and his Rwandan counterpart Vincent Biruta, and seen by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and… Read more »
Link https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00081677.html Summary: Over 10,000 people have crossed into Uganda as clashes continue to occur on the DR Congo border between the DRC army and militants supported by Rwandan soldiers. On March 27 and 28 2022, these militants carried out attacks against military bases in the DR Congo. As fighting broke out, thousands have begun to flee to neighboring Uganda…. Read more »
Summary: Ugandan climate activist Hilda Nakabuye delivered a speech at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue on Tuesday, challenging european lawmakers for their support of the Crude Oil Pipeline project. The EACOP has proposed a 1,400+ kilometer pipeline from Uganda to Tanzania that would be the longest heated crude oil pipeline in the world. Environmental activists are against this because of… Read more »
Summary: Since Russia has invaded Ukraine, more than 4 million people have fleed the country. Among these include Africans, and while all refugees from Ukraine are accepted by neighboring EU countries, investigative reports have uncovered that African Ukraine residents have been detained in closed facilities. They are being held in long term facilities with very little access to the outside… Read more »
The Connecticut-based Butterfly Network will be providing over 1,000 healthcare workers with a Butterfly IQ+ system, an ultrasound device, using funds donated by the Gates Foundation. As pregnancy complications have been rising in the Sub-Saharan Africa, this technology is essential prenatal healthcare, and will assist in decreasing mortality rates. Sub Saharan African practitioners and healthcare have less access to imaging… Read more »