I found the video about South Sudan over winter break and it was extremely helpful in explaining the conflict. Vox does a great job explaining world wide conflicts in a simple matter. I like how they compare it to the Rwanda genocide. It is very similar with the two large ethnic groups and the thousands of people dying due to… Read more »
(The Guardian) A further 49 clinics are under threat of closure due to financial shortfalls, with the UN’s appeal for the country close to 50% underfunded. Eleven health facilities in Sudan, funded by the UN and serving people displaced by conflict in the region, have been forced to close due to lack of money. Funding shortfalls also threaten the closure… Read more »
(France 24) Floods triggered by heavy rains and a river bursting its banks have killed at least 50 people and left thousands homeless in the southwest Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial governor told AFP on Thursday.
(France 24) Boko Haram’s elusive leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday to dispute a claim that the jihadist group had been routed from its Sambisa Forest stronghold.
(Vox) Widespread ethnic cleansing, burning villages, looming starvation, and gang rape “so prevalent that it’s become ‘normal.’” This is what UN experts found when they took a 10-day trip to the African country of South Sudan in late November. Since civil war broke out there in December 2013, as many as 50,000 people have been killed. More than 2.3 million… Read more »
A few days ago I did all of my article post but I posted them on to the wrong Region.So that’s why Grant and I have the same article (I added another to make up for it) but I did want to take the time to reflect on Gambia’s presidential election. Its been an strong American tradition since the founding… Read more »
(Quartz) Over the past decade, development organizations have been working on improving the productivity of African farms to deal with food insecurity as the continent’s population booms. By closing the gap between what farms actually produce and what they could produce, Africa would have enough food to both feed itself and become a new breadbasket for the world.
France 24) Gambia’s leader of some 22 years Yahya Jammeh announced late Friday he would no longer accept defeat in recent elections, plunging the West African country into turmoil with a demand for fresh polls. Investigations into the December 1 vote have revealed a string of “unacceptable errors” on the part of electoral authorities, Jammeh said in a speech broadcast… Read more »
(France 24) Two female suicide bombers on Friday killed 45 people and wounded 33 others when they detonated their explosives in a crowded market in Nigeria’s restive northeast, the emergency service said The army had earlier put the death toll at 30. “From our updated records we have 45 dead and 33 injured in the twin suicide bomb explosions in… Read more »
(Reuters) A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered two Iranian nationals facing charges of filming Israel’s embassy in Nairobi for the purpose of terrorism to be deported back to Iran, a public prosecutor said. Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahimi and Abdolhosein Ghola Safafe were arrested on Nov. 29 while in a car belonging to the Iranian embassy, according to court documents. Iranian foreign… Read more »