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More than 113 million people suffer ‘acute hunger’: UN
Paris — More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced "acute hunger" last year because of wars and climate disasters, with Africa the worst-hit region, the UN said Tuesday.Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and Syria were among the eight nations accounting for two-thirds of the total number of people worldwide exposed to the risk of famine, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in its 2019 global report on food crises.Launched three years ago, the annual study takes stock of the countries facing the greatest difficulties.African states were "disproportionally" affected as close to 72 million people on the continent suffered acute hunger, the FAO's emergencies director Dominique Bourgeon told AFP on Tuesday.Conflict and...
April 02, 2019

More than 113 million people suffer ‘acute hunger’: UN

Sudanese President Omar Bashir addresses parliament in the capital Khartoum on Monday in his first such speech since he imposed a state of emergency across the country on Feb. 22. — AFP
Bashir says Sudan protest demands ‘legitimate’
KHARTOUM — Sudanese President Omar Bashir on Monday acknowledged the “legitimate” demands of anti-government protesters, while blaming several deaths on the actions of political groups.Protests have rocked the east African country since December, with demonstrators calling on the veteran leader to step down.They accuse Bashir’s government of mismanaging the country’s economy, leading to soaring food prices and regular shortages of fuel and foreign currency.“The economic crisis has impacted a wide section of our people,” Bashir told lawmakers in his first speech to parliament since a state of emergency he imposed on Feb. 22 to quell the protests.“Some of them took to the streets to express their legitimate demands, but some of those gatherings used unlawful ways and...
April 01, 2019

Bashir says Sudan protest demands ‘legitimate’

In this file photo taken on April 11, 2018 New Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reacts during his rally in Ambo, about 120 km west of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In his first speech as prime minister, Abiy Ahmed called for an end to the repressive, exclusionary governance that had plunged the country into turmoil. — AFP
One year on, tough times loom for Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed
By Chris SteinADDIS ABABA — In his first speech as Ethiopian prime minister last April, Abiy Ahmed called for an end to the repressive, exclusionary governance that had plunged the country into turmoil.It was a promise on which he is seen to have delivered dramatically, earning him both international acclaim and domestic popularity so great that his keenest supporters say he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.“Before Abiy came, our fear was that Ethiopia would descend into civil war,” said Hassen Hussein, a top official in the Oromo Democratic Front, one of the many banned groups welcomed back from exile.Yet the new prime minister’s first year in office has also been marked by a surge in ethnic violence that has forced 1.8 million people out of their homes.While Abiy has remade the...
March 31, 2019

One year on, tough times loom for Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed

A woman prepares food at a camp for people displaced in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, on Thursday. — Reuters
In Mozambique, parents yearn for children torn away by cyclone
BEIRA, Mozambique — It has been more than a week since Virginia Samuel last saw two of her children.Her family was marooned for four days in the stands of a basketball stadium after Cyclone Idai brought floods along the Buzi River in central Mozambique, where she lived.A helicopter hoisted Samuel to safety with her two youngest boys, aged 5 and 6. But there was no room for her 12-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter.She is haunted by the memory of them screaming for her as the helicopter flew away, leaving them behind with their grandmother.“I have to pray to God, so I can see my mother and my children again,” she said, wiping tears with her patterned skirt at a camp for displaced people in the nearby port city of Beira.Hers is a common plight in this part of Mozambique, where...
March 29, 2019

In Mozambique, parents yearn for children torn away by cyclone

A general view of a main street is seen on Thursday in Moroni, after gunfire was heard in the Comoros capital.  — AFP
Gunfire rocks Comoros as opposition and government face off
MORONI — Gunfire rocked the Comoran capital on Thursday after police arrested a defeated presidential hopeful who was named head of an opposition transitional authority hoping to unseat President Azali Assoumani.Interior Minister Mohamed “Kiki” Daoudou confirmed to AFP that gunfire had erupted near a military base in Moroni on Thursday but insisted the situation in the coup-prone nation was “under control”.An aide confirmed the arrest of former military colonel Soilihi Mohamed, who came fourth in Sunday’s poll which the opposition said was rigged by the government.Civilians deserted the streets of Moroni and taxis stopped collecting passengers, an AFP correspondent saw, following the crackle of gunfire around the Kandani base.Police earlier broke up a women’s protest march...
March 28, 2019

Gunfire rocks Comoros as opposition and government face off

A general view shows wreckage of cars destroyed during an explosion near a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Thursday. — Reuters
11 dead as Somalia bomb blast hits restaurant at lunchtime
MOGADISHU — At least 11 people died when a bomb exploded on a busy street and ripped into a nearby restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, medics said.Security officials and witnesses reported bodies strewn on the ground as plumes of smoke rose high into the air after the bomb detonated on Mogadishu’s key road, one of the seaside capital’s main thoroughfares, an area busy with businesses and travelers.It struck as people were eating lunch.“The death toll we have confirmed so far is 11 people, with 16 others wounded,” said Abdulkadir Abdirahman Adan, director of the Aamin Ambulance service, adding that the toll could still rise. “There could be more losses.”Witnesses described scenes of devastation.“The car bomb struck a restaurant along the road,” said...
March 28, 2019

11 dead as Somalia bomb blast hits restaurant at lunchtime

People play chess at the Munuki Chess Club in Juba, South Sudan, in this March 2, 2019 file photo. — AFP
The game of chess is building bridges in South Sudan
THE scorching sun is finally beginning to dip on a late Saturday afternoon in Juba, where a small group gathers to watch a tense battle between two of their best men.Deng Costa, a wiry, soft-spoken 28-year-old, stares at the chessboard in angst as smooth-talking Angelo Legge, 36, with a faux gold watch and mischievous glint in his eye, counters his Sicilian Defense at every move.Next to the small courtyard where they are facing off, a deafening roar from young men crammed into a wooden structure watching a Premier League football match briefly breaks their concentration.But this is not enough to help Costa.Legge — who says some call him “Angelo the Great” — traps him in checkmate. Costa walks off in a huff.Nevertheless, after more than five years of war, pitting different ethnic...
March 27, 2019

The game of chess is building bridges in South Sudan

A soldier walks amid the damage after an attack by gunmen on Fulani herders in Ogossagou, Mali, in this March 25, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Death toll from attack on Mali herders rises to 157
BAMAKO — The death toll from Saturday’s attack by gunmen on villagers in central Mali has risen to 157, a government spokesman said, confirming it as one of the worst recent atrocities in a country beset by ethnic violence.The attack, in which women and children were burned in their homes, marked an escalation in violence between Dogon hunters and Fulani herders that killed hundreds of civilians last year and is spreading across Africa’s Sahel, the region between the Sahara to the north and the continent’s savannas to the south.“The official death toll is 157,” government spokesman Amadou Kotia said late on Tuesday. Officials on Saturday said that about 134 had been killed, though they expected that number to rise.The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou...
March 27, 2019

Death toll from attack on Mali herders rises to 157

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita inspects the site of an attack by gunmen on Fulani herders in Ogossagou, Mali, on Monday. — Reuters
UN sends team to probe Mali massacre
GENEVA — The UN said on Tuesday it had sent a team of investigators to Mali’s restive Mopti region, where more than 150 people were massacred this weekend.The raid took place on Saturday in the village of Ogossagou, home to the Fulani herding community, near the town of Mopti in central Mali.The UN rights office said at least 153 people were killed and 73 injured in the attack. Local officials and security sources said on Monday the death toll had climbed to 160.The attack marked a “significant” surge in “violence across communal lines and by so-called self-defense groups apparently attempting to root out violent extremist groups”, said UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani.In the Mopti region alone, attacks had led to “some 600 deaths of women, children and men, as...
March 26, 2019

UN sends team to probe Mali massacre

A woman is carried outside a health center in Beira, Mozambique, on Tuesday. — Reuters
Nearly 2 million Mozambicans in need after cyclone: UN
BEIRA, Mozambique — Cyclone Idai’s deadly hit has left some 1.85 million people in need of assistance in Mozambique, the UN humanitarian agency said on Tuesday, as relief workers assess the scale of the disaster and determine what help is most urgently needed.“Some will be in critical, life threatening situations,” Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, coordinator in the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, said of the affected people.“We’re now going out on the ground, dropping people off from helicopters to determine what the critical needs are.”Idai flattened homes and provoked widespread flooding after slamming into Mozambique near the port of Beira on March 14. It then ripped through neighboring Zimbabwe and Malawi, killing at least 686 people across the three...
March 26, 2019

Nearly 2 million Mozambicans in need after cyclone: UN

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