Economic Crisis Leaves Abidjan in a State of Chaos [Analysis Post] Rural areas of the ivory coast are no strangers to poverty. In the city of Abidjan, Cote d’lvoire, some youth groups have taken drastic measures to find ways to feed their families. Kids as young as ten went on a rampage wielding weapons… Read more »
The UN estimates that six million people, half of South Sudan’s population, are severely food insecure [File: Adriane Ohanesian/Reuters] South Sudan‘s plan to hold elections next year risks “deepening and extending” an already devastating civil war, the United Nations warned. Haile Menkerios, the UN secretary-general’s special envoy to the African Union, expressed concern about the elections planned for July 2018 during a joint… Read more »
Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have killed at least 36 Burundian refugees during clashes over plans to send some of them home. Maman Sidikou, the head of MONUSCO, the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the country, said in a statement on Saturday that at least 36 refugees had been reported killed and more than 100 injured. He called for a swift investigation… Read more »
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo – When Rukundu was not yet born his Hutu parents fled the genocide in Rwanda to safety in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he was born. His father was a Hutu soldier and remained in Congo to join the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), but his mother returned to Rwanda, leaving behind the boy in his father’s… Read more »
In Ivory Coast, violent youth gangs are spreading terror across the economic capital Abidjan. For several weeks now, these groups of delinquents – some as young as ten – have gone on the rampage, staging brutal and sometimes deadly knife and machete attacks. With an inadequate response from authorities, exasperated residents are taking matters into their own hands, and lynchings… Read more »