The response to Cyclone Idai on a state level shows the impact of poverty on states’ abilities to prevent death as a result of disasters and create emergency response infrastructure. Cyclone Idai is a recent event that impacted the coastal African country of Mozambique, reaching so far inland with such devastating force that it even managed to impact the neighboring,… Read more »
Lawyers in Chad on Thursday presented an application to the courts seeking an order to force government to lift a social media blackout. But the Appeals Court struck out the case allowing the government to continue the blackout which has been in force since March 2018. For a year now, Chadians are unable to use particular social media platform such… Read more »
A global human rights organisation said on Thursday that at least 170 civilians have been killed since October in fighting in English-speaking western Cameroon between separatists and government forces. “Government forces in Cameroon’s anglophone regions have killed scores of civilians, used indiscriminate force, and torched hundreds of homes over the past six months,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a… Read more »
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is addressing the humanitarian needs of populations affected by Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe, Malawi, in addition to the ongoing response in Mozambique after an appeal was launched earlier this week. Zimbabwe The hardest hit province is Manicaland where Chimanimani and Chipinge districts remain inaccessible due to heavy rains, strong winds, earth sliding which has damaged… Read more »
JOHANNESBURG Cholera cases in Mozambique among survivors of a devastating cyclone have shot up to 139, officials said, as nearly 1 million vaccine doses were rushed to the region and health workers desperately tried to improvise treatment space for victims. Cholera causes acute diarrhea, is spread by contaminated food and water and can kill within hours if not treated. The… Read more »