“As far as we’re concerned, it’s not a coup, it’s the liberation of a country, which was being governed by people who were incompetent.” – Juliene Traore, a pro-coup d’état protester in Burkina Faso to AFP news. Like Juliene Traore, there are thousands more in the Sahel region who support
The all-out war for control of Sudan runs the risk of pulling other states in, turning it into a regional conflict. As always, civilians are the ones most affected by the war. Over 2,000 deaths have been reported thus far, and the U.N.H.C.R. reports that more than 1 million are
North Kivu is a province in North-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which is blessed with rich minerals but cursed with perpetual deadly conflicts and victim to a deadly movement, the M23, a rebel group that has been terrorizing the region for decades now. Although the rebel group went dormant for
The two year long war that began in November 2020 in Ethiopia’s Tigrayan region may have killed as many as 600,000 civilians, says African Union envoy Olusegun Obasanjo. It also displaced one million civilians who are now in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Thanks to mediation efforts from the United
João Lourenço, President of Angola, held a private meeting last Saturday with Felix Tshisekedi, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.), regarding the restoration of peace in the ravaged eastern Congo. This meeting follows an announcement that the Angolan parliament had approved a year-long deployment of up to
The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report Ranking on Women Political Participation ranked Nigeria at 123 out of 146 countries in its Global Gender Gap (GGG) index for 2022. This means that Nigeria has one of the biggest gender gap in politics – women are poorly represented in Nigeria’s
International economic sanctions against the impoverished West African country of Mali punish the very people fighting for democracy, freedom, and a better future. The economic sanctions imposed on Mali in 2021 were the harshest sanctions ever imposed on the country, hurting millions of vulnerable people, many of whom believed the
After almost ten years of fighting Islamist groups in Mali, the French President, Emmanuel Macron and his European allies announced on Thursday the withdrawal of French and European military from Mali. The announcement comes after relations between France and the coup leaders deteriorated in the past few months. France’s Barkhane
On Wednesday, 9 February 2022, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Uganda to pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) $325 million as reparations over the five-year-long war which began in 1998. Uganda is ordered to pay the amount in five yearly instalments of $65 million; the payments
The United Nations (UN) announced that it will hold talks as a mediator between civilian and military leaders, to bring an end to the ongoing violence in Sudan. The announcement came a week after Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned, following a failure to broker an agreement between civilian and military
Last Sunday, the Economic Community of West African States (E.C.O.W.A.S.) announced new economic sanctions to be imposed on Mali’s transitional authorities in response to a proposal to postpone the country’s February 2022 elections to 2025. The additional sanctions include members’ closure of land and air borders with Mali, a freeze
After reaching an agreement with Saudi Arabia to repatriate several Tigrayans back to Ethiopia, Human Watch Rights (HWR) reported that thousands of repatriated Tigrayans are being detained and mistreated by Ethiopian authorities. Between December 2020 and September 2021, HRW interviewed job-seeking Tigrayans deported from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia and discovered
South Africa eight years after Mandela, stakes and challenges for the Rainbow nation Located in the southern part of Africa and with a population of approximately 59.31 million, South Africa has the third-largest economy in Africa behind Egypt. It also boasts a large multi-culturalism population with 11 different tribes and
