https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/10/at-least-1m-people-facing-starvation-madagascar-drought-worsens Madagascar’s three year drought along with the pandemic leaves at least one million people in the Grand South faced with the prospect of starvation. What once was a wet climate yielding rice crops and livestock has turned into a dry, malnourished land and people. Due to the lack of rain in the past, farmers were not able to grow… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/africa/namibia-oil-exploration-intl-cmd/index.html A Canadian company named ReconAfrica has struck oil gold in the Kavango East, Namibia. There is immense controversy surrounding the now oil rich region and what to do with it. The main argument is between letting Namibia use the oil and improve their economy and therefore the wellbeing of the citizens or not let them use due to the… Read more »
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gunmen-kill-eight-ambush-passing-cars-burundi-2021-05-10/ Eight civilians were killed on a main road in Burundi yesterday, by a gang of armed robbers. Of the eight murdered while driving in their cars, one was a senior military officer. The attack occurred late on sunday night on the road connecting the commercial capital to the political capital, Bujumbura and Gitenga respectively. Along with the eight dead,… 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 »
