Article link: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-africa-rwanda-migration-eritrea-8e155d8921e3d13e746f6a4fba69a215 Britain’s latest choice to send some migrants to Rwanda is wondered with the aid of numerous peopleresettled in this tiny East African country who say it is now not a appropriate refuge. An Eritrean refugee used to live in Isreal but got deported in 2015 said he found the country “too difficult”which lead him to move his… Read more »
Article link:https://allafrica.com/stories/202204260116.html Women play an essential position in managing herbal sources and are predominantly accountable for the conservation of sources for their households and neighborhood stages They spend extensive quantities of time gathering and storing water, securing sources of fuel, meals and fodder and managing land be it wooded area or agricultural terrain. Statistics exhibit that female produce between 60… Read more »
Article link:https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/uganda-and-congolese-army-review-joint-operation-against-adf-3791624 The Ugandan and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are enforcing an increase of troops in the joint military operation in eastern DR Congo against Islamic States-affiliated group, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), to cover a bigger area. In the first part of the year, “organizations in DRC that monitor and publicize atrocities by militia groups have verified at… Read more »
Link to article:https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/29155/despite-the-return-of-refugees-burundi-faces-continued-violence In 2015, President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for election for his third term, which caused a lot of controversy. In response, thousands of Burundian people protested throughout Rwanda which resulted into 1,200 people being killed, and 400,000 fleeing to neighboring countries, specifically to Tanzania. Since 2017, a number of refugees tried returning to Rwanda to Tanzania,… Read more »
Article link: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-africa-health-zambia-financial-markets-0a37160eda1b5e0fe822eab8b85f7e26 In Africa, Zambia is really struggling and going into debt with private investors. Coronavirus has not helped this issue whatsoever. Zambia owes an extreme amount of money to private bondholders, commercial banks, and state lenders, including China. Zambia is unable to pay back these groups and are on the verge of defaulting. China is looking to secure… Read more »
Article link:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/malawi-becomes-the-second-country-in-sub-saharan-africa-to-eliminate-lymphatic-filariasis-elephantiasis-301162180.html In the African country of Malawi, doctors and scientists have eliminated Lymphatic Filariasis (LF; Elephantitis), being only the second country in Sub-Saharan Africa to do this. LF is a disease that is spread by a parasite caused by a mosquito bite. This disease causes a long-term infection, the most common symptoms include swelling and thickening of skin (limbs,… Read more »
Article Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54164397 Rwanda makes clothing and purchases used clothing from other countries (mainly the U.S). The Rwandan people were gravitating toward used clothing due to the cheaper costs. As a result, garment factories there were losing money. In response, Rwanda put tariffs in place ($4 per kilogram) on imports of used clothing in 2018. ¨The U.S. responded by putting… Read more »
Link to article: https://nation.africa/kenya/news/africa/sudan-pm-says-us-blacklisting-harms-path-to-democracy-report-2463040 Sudan is complaining that the United States is preventing them from developing economically due to sanctions placed on the country for harboring al-Qaída leader Usama bin Laden in the early-1990s. Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdock said his country’s inclusion on the U.S. state sponsors of terrorism list is unfair, as bin Laden was expelled decades ago… Read more »
Link to article:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/africa-climate-change-senegal-conflict-empower-women-a9298141.html Over a 30 year period starting in the early 1980s, the people of Casamance, Senegal experienced violent conflict between armed separatists and the Senegalese government. Following the end of the conflict in 2014, the people of Senegal have had to deal with increased poverty and thousands of lives have been lost due to starvation as a result… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.cfr.org/blog/cameroon-crisis-continues-us-officials-struggle-exert-positive-influence There is a civil war brewing in Cameroon between the French speaking majority (Francophones) and the minority English speaking population (Anglophones). The United States (U.S) is trying to prevent this from happening by reducing economic and military assistance to put pressure on the Cameroonian government. Congress has introduced a resolution calling for an end to the… Read more »
