Tag: UN Africa News

During the trip Mr. Grandi met Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir where they discussed how the two countries can work together to help their displaced populations. “Solutions have to be found” – UNHCR’s @FilippoGrandi urges greater support for Sudan & #SouthSudan With some 7 million Sudanese & South Sudanese displaced within or outside, finding… Read More

Issa Sanogo, the UN Resident Coordinator in Madagascar, visited the area recently and spoke to UN News about how climate change is making life increasingly difficult for the people who live there and how the UN is helping those in need. UN Madagascar Issa Sanogo, UN Resident Coordinator in Madagascar, meets a young girl who had received food aid. “We… Read More

According to media reports, the civilian convoy was being escorted by military police, when it was attacked by Islamist militants. As well as the scores of people killed, several others were wounded.  Government and military sources reportedly declared that 59 civilians, six pro-Government militiamen and 15 military police were slaughtered while security forces said that 80 militants were also murdered.… Read More

Since 2018, the Royal Thai Armed Forces has deployed troops serving as the Horizontal Military Engineering Company (HMEC) to support UNMISS. Nearly 270 Thai peacekeepers are working mainly in two South Sudanese cities, the, capital, Juba, and Rumbek the latter being about 400 km to the north where they help to maintain supply routes, including engineering tasks, with the UNMISS… Read More

The deployment from Guinea included 2,000 doses that are being used under the “ring strategy,” where people who have come into contact with a confirmed Ebola patient are given the vaccine, as well as first responders and health workers.   ‘A critical tool’ Guinea also sent around 3000 vaccine doses manufactured by Johnson & Johnson. These are being used as booster… Read More

In a statement released on Saturday, the Côte d’Ivoire country office of the WHO said that the virus was found in samples collected from a patient who was hospitalized in the commercial capital of Abidjan, after arriving from Guinea. Initial investigations found that the patient had travelled to Côte d’Ivoire by road and arrived in Abidjan on 12 August. The… Read More

The alert was prompted by what UNHCR has called “widespread and systematic” abuse in Tanganyika province, where thousands of people have been internally displaced this year, often many times. “Some women and girls have been abducted and used as sex slaves by armed group members”, spokesperson Shabia Mantoo told journalists in Geneva. 🔴 An ongoing conflict.🔴 23,000 displaced since May.… Read More

Christian Achaleke spoke to the UN ahead of International Youth Day, which is marked annually on August 12th. “My decision to become a peace activist was influenced by my personal experience. I grew up in a community plagued by violence: it was a way of life. At some point, I came to realize that violence leads us nowhere. I lost… Read More

UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, reported that recent negotiations under the African Union (AU) have yielded little progress.  The parties have been unable to agree a framework for engagement to settle outstanding issues, which include a dispute resolution mechanism as well as the management of the dam during protracted drought.  “The United Nations remains available… Read More

Although Mali outlawed slavery in 1905, a system of “descent-based slavery” persists, where some people are considered slaves because their ancestors were allegedly enslaved by the families of so-called masters.  Attacks ‘unacceptable’  People born into slavery work without pay and are deprived of basic human rights and dignity, the experts said.    Those who reject the “slave” designation and try… Read More