The United Nations World Food Program reports that thousands of people in Madagascar are on the verge of famine. A senior U.N. food agency official has stated that a severe drought in southern Madagascar is exposing hundreds of thousands to famine at a scale “beyond belief.” “If we don’t reverse
On April 26th, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed to withdraw Eritrean troops from the war-torn Tigray region “immediately, in full, and in a verifiable manner,” according to a statement by U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price. This exhortation comes a month after Abiy
On Sunday 11th April, millions of Chadians took to the polls to re-elect their longstanding President Idriss Deby for his 6th term in a hostile and contested election campaign. 9 days later, he was dead. Official reports suggest that Deby died on Tuesday 20th April, succumbing to injuries sustained whilst
After 24 hours of violence on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the two countries have reached a ceasefire agreement. More than 40 people were killed in the violent clash, which broke out on Thursday, 29th April over contested water reserves. The fighting began as Kyrgyz and Tajik villagers hurled
In yet another diplomatic row Russia has expelled a Ukrainian diplomat, their foreign ministry stated on Monday; reciprocating the expulsion of a Russian diplomat in Kyiv (Reuters). The Russian diplomat was initially expelled in response to Russia’s expelling of a Ukrainian consulate worker in St. Petersburg earlier this month. According
