Link to article: https://nation.africa/kenya/business/kenya-exports-somalia-up-76pc-on-miraa-boost-4368170 Summary: The capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, finally lifted the 2 year ban placed on Miraa exports from Kenya to Somalia. Although Miraa is a large export, Mogadishu is also provided with goods such as soaps, tobacco, and coffee from Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. This move significantly impacted the Miraa farmers, as it opened up new opportunities… Read more »
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed Army commander Marial Chanuong Yol and Finance minister Stephen Dhieu Dau. The state-owned television announced the sackings on Monday evening, without giving reasons for President Kiir’s decision. Gen Yol, nicknamed Tiger, was the commander of the presidential guard, before he was appointed the army chief of operations, training and intelligence last year.
Source: France24 Scandal-hit British charity Oxfam was reeling Tuesday after fresh claims of sexual assault and cover-up in South Sudan, as Haiti’s president condemned the behaviour of some of its staff in his country as “undignified and dishonest”. Helen Evans, former global head of safeguarding, also warned of assaults on children volunteering in Oxfam’s hundreds of high-street charity shops in… 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 »
(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 »
(Al Jazeera) Rights commission urges international community to take immediate action in South Sudan to avoid “all-out ethnic war”. South Sudan is “on the brink of an all-out ethnic civil war which could destabilise the entire region”, the head of a team of UN human rights investigators told the UN Human Rights Council, describing a shattered country where children as… Read more »
