WASHINGTON – The Biden administration reversed a policy that had linked foreign aid to Ethiopia to its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) hydropower project signaling a decided change in U.S. relations with Ethiopia, analysts say. “It is a fairly predictable move, as the Trump administration aid freeze had not achieved anything other than further antagonizing […]
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON – More than 180,000 people who were displaced during recent fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region are in dire need of food, shelter and other assistance according to the International Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC). The Switzerland-based organization called on Sudan’s transitional government to work with its humanitarian partners to provide relief for the displaced, implement […]
Continue ReadingJOHANNESBURG – The shadowy, violent Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado region has confounded authorities, residents, aid groups and observers — and appears to be continuing unabated. By any account, Mozambique’s northern region is in bad shape. An insurgency that started in 2017 in Cabo Delgado province set off a domino effect that toppled […]
Continue ReadingThe UN estimates that 200 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), with 80 per cent of cases occurring in Africa. The impact of Covid-19 has made some of the statistics on FGM even worse. Switzerland is committed to defending fundamental human rights: preventing and combating sexual and gender-based […]
Continue Readingand the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported 14 Ebola virus cases and nine deaths so far, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialised healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union, reported a fatality rate of 64.3 percent in the two countries. Since the […]
Continue ReadingADDIS ABABA, Feb 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A number of African countries have either openly rejected vaccines amid spread of the coronavirus pandemic while one has yet to make a pronouncement on whether or not it is interested. Two of these countries are in the East African Community – they are Burundi and Tanzania. The regional […]
Continue ReadingBAMAKO – West African countries are taking steps to prevent a regional outbreak of Ebola after the deadly virus killed at least five people in Guinea. As Guinea launched an Ebola vaccination drive Tuesday, after an outbreak in the West African nation’s southern Nzérékoré region, its neighbors were also preparing. The last Ebola outbreak in 2013 […]
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