Tue 12 December 2023: The United Nations mission in Mali has officially ended a 10-year deployment in the country, its spokesperson said, in a pullout ordered by Mali’s military government. The mission, known as the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), lowered the UN flag in its headquarters in the capital Bamako, its […]
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Tue 12 December 2023: Natural disasters affected a total of 407.5 million people in Africa between 2000 and 2022 as climate-induced catastrophic events led to severe humanitarian crises across the continent, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has said. Amid the growing impact of climate-induced incidents across the African continent, such events have […]
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Tue 12 December 2023: The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Interpol National Central Bureau (NCB) for South Africa that will allow the unit to have direct access to Interpol’s information system. “The MoU will strengthen the SIU’s investigating tools of trade and access to data systems to […]
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Mon 11 December 2023: Although South Africa’s Tuberculosis (TB) infection incidence is dropping, government is disturbed about the death rate among patients. This is according to the Deputy Health Minister, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, who was delivering a keynote address on the opening day of the BRICS TB Research Network Innovation Summit in Durban. “TB remains […]
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Mon 11 December 2023: Since the current civil war began in mid-April, more than 3,000 humanitarian groups in Sudan have entirely halted operations, official SUNA news agency cited Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission as saying on Friday. “These include around 2,900 national organizations, 110 foreign organizations and more than 10 UN humanitarian agencies and regional organizations,” […]
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Sun 10 December 2023: Harare, Zimbabwe – When Obert Manduna was elected member of parliament for Nketa constituency in Zimbabwe’s second biggest city of Bulawayo in August, the former humanitarian worker was elated. “It has always been my passion to work with the downtrodden, vulnerable, and disadvantaged members of the society,” Manduna told Al Jazeera. “So […]
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Sat 09 December 2023: The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is “worsening” as it faces the “world’s largest displacement crisis,” the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the country said on Friday. In the past eight months, the fighting has spread from Khartoum to several states across the country, Mohammad Taufiq Mashal told a UN press […]
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Fri 08 December 2023: In a bid to bolster economic cooperation and enhance bilateral ties, the Kenyan government on Thursday announced its intention to send 1,500 casual farm laborers to Israel to engage in agricultural activities. The announcement came a day after a bilateral meeting between Kenyan officials and an Israeli delegation held at the […]
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Wed 06 December 2023: After the other three founder countries withdrew, the two surviving members of West Africa’s G5 Sahel alliance said on Wednesday that they were preparing to dissolve the anti-rebel collaboration. Chad and Mauritania “take note and respect the sovereign decision” of Burkina Faso and Niger to leave the alliance, following in the footsteps of Mali, the two countries said in […]
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South African anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress member Nelson Mandela (C), wearing a keffiyeh, attends a meeting organised in his honour by the National Union of Algerian Youths, May 18, 1990, in Algiers [Abdelhak Senna/AFP] Wed 06 December 2023: In late February 1990, 16 days after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela descended […]
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