This past August, Madagascar has yet again been struck with an outbreak of the pneumonic plague. The disease emerges about once a year and it is usually able to be contained fairly quickly. This year, however, the plague has been exceedingly difficult to contain and it has already claimed the deaths of over 120 people as well as infected well… Read more »
http://allafrica.com/stories/201710260004.html South Africa is one of nine countries which have been warned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be on high alert for “black death”. The other eight countries at risk include the Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, France’s La Réunion, the Seychelles, and Tanzania. An update on the outbreak, released in a WHO report, states that South Africa’s… Read more »
http://allafrica.com/stories/201710260701.html A crisis meeting bringing together the African Union (AU), United Nations (UN), the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and other key stakeholders to review the recent bomb attack in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, yesterday agreed on key measures aimed at deterring future attacks. The Joint Crisis Management Team meeting, organized by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), was… Read more »
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/somali-pm-hassan-ali-khayre-visit-turkey-171024164116661.html Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire is set to visit Turkey on Wednesday and meet Somalis who are being treated there, after being wounded in a massive truck bomb attack in Mogadishu last week. At least 358 people were killed in the October 14 blast, in what was the deadliest single attack to ever hit Somalia’s capital. Hundreds of… Read more »
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/plague-kills-124-madagascar-cities-affected-171025094848287.html A plague epidemic in Madagascar has killed 124 people since August in an outbreak that has hit the island’s two main cities the hardest, the authorities said. Plague is endemic in Madagascar, but the outbreak that has caused 1,192 suspected cases since August is especially worrying because it started earlier in the season than usual and has hit urban,… Read more »
Over the past year, police forces in Cameroon have been cracking down on protesters from the English speaking region. The English speakers are protesting because they feel under-represented and marginalized by the French speaking government of Cameroon. To begin, the people of Cameroon speak English and French due to German imperialism in the region. After World War I, Germany lost… Read more »
By NDI Eugene NDI Cameroon’s anglophone crisis reached a new low last week, when 17 people were shot dead by security forces and 50 wounded, according to Amnesty International, but local media put the death toll at more than 20. Protesters had gathered in towns across the country’s two English-speaking regions to mark a symbolic declaration of independence, and were… Read more »
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report detailing unlawful detention and torture in Rwanda. The 91-page report – We Will Force You to Confess: Torture and Unlawful Military Detention in Rwanda – alleges details widespread and systematic torture by the military and accuses judges of being complicit in the creation of a culture of impunity for the armed forces. Victims were beaten until they… Read more »
Police patrolled empty streets in Cameroon’s restive anglophone belt as a separatist group made a symbolic proclamation of independence on Sunday, a day after a young man was shot dead by security forces. In Buea, the main city in the English-speaking southwest, the streets were mostly deserted as security forces patrolled the streets including the area where the separatists were… Read more »
Since gaining its independence, South Sudan has not been off to a good start, as it commenced a civil war in 2013, just two years after separating from Sudan. The world’s youngest nation, South Sudan, fell into turmoil when the Vice President, Reik Machar, repeatedly accused the President, Salva Kiir, as behaving and ruling too dictator-like. After these allegations, Machar… Read more »