Category: Africa

Sat 17  December 2022: The UN estimated 2.9 million people have been displaced by severe flooding in west and central Africa. The death toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to rise following heavy rain and extreme flooding that have ravaged the country in recent days. At least 169 people have died as […]

Sat 17  December 2022: Saturday’s vote appears to inspire little enthusiasm across Tunisia amid widespread disillusionment over political dysfunction and an ongoing economic crisis. It comes 12 years after Tunisian vegetable seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in an act of protest that sparked the Arab Spring – a series of popular uprisings across […]

Thu 15  December 2022: US President Joe Biden called Thursday for the African Union to become a permanent member of G-20. “Today I’m also calling for the African Union to join the G20 as a permanent member,” Biden said in remarks at a U.S.-Africa summit in Washington. “Africa belongs to the table in every room, in every […]

Thu 15  December 2022: With famine spreading, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Wednesday that the world will face “an enormous level of suffering” in 2023. “We expect an enormous level of suffering,” said Mirjana Spoljaric, who took over at the ICRC in October. “As the world is trending at […]

Thu 15  December 2022: On Wednesday, US Vice President Joe Biden called for a broad partnership with Africa calling closer ties crucial for the world. “When Africa succeeds, the United States succeeds. Quite frankly, the whole world succeeds as well,” Biden told the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington DC, the second such summit that has been held in the American capital […]