Mali’s constant struggle to combat armed group violence shows no signs of stopping as 11 people were killed and 53 injured when a bus collided with an explosive device in central Mali on Thursday, October 13th. According to Al Jazeera, the explosion took place on a road in between Bandiagara
Since Burkina Faso’s January 2022 military coup that overthrew previous President Roch Kaboré, the threat of armed groups has only worsened. Just months after coup leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba swore to maintain the integrity of Burkina Faso’s sovereignty against the security crisis, on June 11 at least 135
The indigenous Maasai people of Tanzania and Kenya are undergoing forcible removal from their ancestral lands within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area by the Tanzanian government. Violence erupted on June 10, when decades of simmering tensions between the Tanzanian government and the Maasai people were physically demonstrated by the demarcation of
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, the ripples of the conflict are heavily amplifying Africa’s food shortage crisis. Moreover, the effects of the Ukraine war have extended its arm into Africa economically and politically in ways that prove to multiply existing obstacles towards the preservation of human rights. Of those
As of November 2020, Ethiopia has undergone a grueling civil war between the Ethiopian government, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and a string of different militias concentrated at the northern region of Tigray. The current war has unveiled Ethiopia’s turbulent history with tribalism, democracy, and human rights. The conflict
