People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will. Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that forced her out of her home last month, she...
Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation. People have been forced to consume “grass and peanut shells,” the regional director for Eastern Africa of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “If assistance...
"At least 71 people have been confirmed dead and 110 people are in hospital following #floods near the town of Mai Mahiu in Kenya’s north-western Nakuru county.
#Kenya has grappled with weeks of heavy rains and devastating flash floods. "
"#EastAfrica is bracing for more floods, as torrential rain after years of drought deliver a reminder of the threat created by #ClimateChange.
Tropical Storm #Hidaya is expected to make landfall this weekend, worsening the deluge that has already killed hundreds of people and swept away crops and livestock."
For the Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, who has treated more than 80,000 survivors of sexual violence by armed groups, the west displays double standards over the ‘stain on our humanity’. Walking around a camp for displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo this year, the Nobel peace laureate Dr Denis Mukwege...
News to me: Eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) have been experiencing unusually (per historical weather records) high rainfall since March and are now experiencing long-term flooding. Hundreds of people have died and hundreds of thousands are now displaced. This article marks a dam bursting in Kenya, contributing heavily to the displacement.
Nigeria has rolled out the world's first vaccine against all strains of meningitis. The shot will help ease the burden of disease in Africa's “meningitis belt.” Nigeria has become the first country in Africa's "meningitis belt" to introduce the new Men5CV or 'MenFive' meningitis vaccine. It is the world's first vaccine to...
This comes after the Governor of the region announced a new route to deliver humanitarian aid to the western territory. The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF has left 18 million people – more than a third of the population – facing acute food insecurity.
At least three million Tanzanians were pushed into poverty during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank says in its latest report. In the 20th edition of Tanzania Economic Update, the World Bank says the number of Tanzanians living in poverty surged from 14 million in 2018 to 17 million by 2022....
Since early February, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, has been rocked by protests directed against western embassies. Protests took place in front of the British and French embassies, and in front of United Nations buildings. Throughout the city, American and Belgian flags were burned....
An airstrike in Ethiopia's Amhara region killed at least 15 civilians, including children and elderly people, when it hit a truck carrying them to a village this week, three residents said. The strike took place on Monday around 24 km from where Ethiopian troops were fighting militiamen, according to the residents who asked not...
A secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found....
Families still reeling from the aftermath of a two-year conflict in Tigray are now resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive. The conflict and erratic rainfall have further exacerbated the planting season which threatens to plunge the region into deeper humanitarian catastrophe if nothing is done, warns Oxfam....
The leaders of the three Sahel nations said it was a "sovereign decision" to leave the Economic Community of West African States "without delay." Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, said Sunday they are leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) immediately....
Agreement would have granted Ethiopia access to Gulf of Aden under 50-year lease. Somalia has cancelled a controversial deal between Somaliland, a breakaway region of the country of around 18 million, and landlocked Ethiopia that would have allowed Addis Ababa access to the Red Sea....
The death toll from the recent gas tanker explosion in Totota, Lower Bong County, has risen to over 40, according to Liberia's Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Minister for Health Services, Dr. Francis Kateh....
Egypt said the latest talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) had failed but it would monitor the process of filling and operating the dam....
Ugandan human rights activists, journalists, religious leaders, academics, and lawyers are currently challenging the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which came into force in May, in court. The case, which enters its final pretrial stage today, will soon proceed to trial....
Le président du #Kenya William Ruto avait organisé des prières collectives pour demander de la pluie...
Ça a tellement bien marché (il s'en était d'ailleurs vanté récemment) que le pays connaît désormais ses pires inondations depuis 2006, avec des dizaines de morts et de disparus. D'autres pays comme la #Tanzanie sont également touchés.
A German court handed down a life imprisonment sentence to Gambian national Bai Lowe on Thursday after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder for his actions with a death squad known as the Junglers, notorious for targeting adversaries of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. The squad’s...
Twenty people were killed and nearly 2,000 inmates escaped during Sunday's attack on a military barracks, a prison and other locations in Sierra Leone, officials said on Monday. The West African country was thrown into panic in the early hours when the assailants sent gunfire ringing across the capital Freetown. The government...
According to a recent statement by the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), drone strikes by Ethiopian government forces in the Amhara region have resulted in the deaths of at least 20 civilians....
Good morning fr #Pasadena. Omg! Where have I been the last 5 days?! #HyperFocus has a way of making time fly, especially if I’m busy gardening and on top of that a multi-day storm is said to be coming. 🙀 😆 But hyper focus is also confusing 🫤
Winter has more or less arrived for us it looks like. We had a good amount of rain yesterday and despite day 2-3 of the storm being revised to 🌤️ day 4 is still tentatively scheduled.
Today, I’d hoped to continue on (re-)potting plants and succulent cuttings but I must get more pots & potting soil first.
Here is a plant that fell over when branches pruned off the big tree fell on it. For potted plants, especially bushy ones, I now use tri/quad-pod support I make out of ribs from #DatePalm fronds. Works incredibly well at preventing various plants from toppling so far! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 Here, I’m using them to straighten a #EuphorbiaGrantii aka #AfricanMilkBush, a native from #EastAfrica
‘I’ve only the clothes on my back’: lives swept away by floods in Kenya (www.theguardian.com)
People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will. Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that forced her out of her home last month, she...
People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan (edition.cnn.com)
Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation. People have been forced to consume “grass and peanut shells,” the regional director for Eastern Africa of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “If assistance...
The ‘man who repairs women’ on rape as a weapon and how the world forgot the Democratic Republic of Congo (www.theguardian.com)
For the Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege, who has treated more than 80,000 survivors of sexual violence by armed groups, the west displays double standards over the ‘stain on our humanity’. Walking around a camp for displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo this year, the Nobel peace laureate Dr Denis Mukwege...
Explainer: Nigeria rolls out world's first full shot against meningitis: Here's what you need to know (www.hindustantimes.com)
Nigeria has rolled out the world's first vaccine against all strains of meningitis. The shot will help ease the burden of disease in Africa's “meningitis belt.” Nigeria has become the first country in Africa's "meningitis belt" to introduce the new Men5CV or 'MenFive' meningitis vaccine. It is the world's first vaccine to...
Sudan war: RSF rejects proposed humanitarian aid route to Darfur (www.africanews.com)
This comes after the Governor of the region announced a new route to deliver humanitarian aid to the western territory. The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF has left 18 million people – more than a third of the population – facing acute food insecurity.
World Bank: Covid-19 pushed three million Tanzanians into poverty (www.thecitizen.co.tz)
At least three million Tanzanians were pushed into poverty during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank says in its latest report. In the 20th edition of Tanzania Economic Update, the World Bank says the number of Tanzanians living in poverty surged from 14 million in 2018 to 17 million by 2022....
Explainer: Democratic Republic of Congo protests: expert explains why Congolese anger against the West is justified – and useful to the government (theconversation.com)
Since early February, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, has been rocked by protests directed against western embassies. Protests took place in front of the British and French embassies, and in front of United Nations buildings. Throughout the city, American and Belgian flags were burned....
Airstrike in Ethiopia's Amhara kills about 15 civilians, residents say (www.theeastafrican.co.ke)
An airstrike in Ethiopia's Amhara region killed at least 15 civilians, including children and elderly people, when it hit a truck carrying them to a village this week, three residents said. The strike took place on Monday around 24 km from where Ethiopian troops were fighting militiamen, according to the residents who asked not...
How a secretive Ethiopian security committee ordered killings, arrests: Reuters investigation (www.reuters.com)
A secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found....
Oxfam warns of growing hunger crisis in Tigray as families resort to extreme measures to survive (theaimn.com)
Families still reeling from the aftermath of a two-year conflict in Tigray are now resorting to increasingly desperate measures to survive. The conflict and erratic rainfall have further exacerbated the planting season which threatens to plunge the region into deeper humanitarian catastrophe if nothing is done, warns Oxfam....
Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger quit Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (www.dw.com)
The leaders of the three Sahel nations said it was a "sovereign decision" to leave the Economic Community of West African States "without delay." Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, said Sunday they are leaving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) immediately....
Somalia cancels Ethiopia's Red Sea deal with Somaliland (www.thenationalnews.com)
Agreement would have granted Ethiopia access to Gulf of Aden under 50-year lease. Somalia has cancelled a controversial deal between Somaliland, a breakaway region of the country of around 18 million, and landlocked Ethiopia that would have allowed Addis Ababa access to the Red Sea....
Liberia: Tanker Explosion Death Toll Rises to 40 (www.liberianobserver.com)
The death toll from the recent gas tanker explosion in Totota, Lower Bong County, has risen to over 40, according to Liberia's Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Minister for Health Services, Dr. Francis Kateh....
Egypt says talks over Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have failed (www.reuters.com)
Egypt said the latest talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) had failed but it would monitor the process of filling and operating the dam....
Ugandans Challenge Anti-Homosexuality Act (www.hrw.org)
Ugandan human rights activists, journalists, religious leaders, academics, and lawyers are currently challenging the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which came into force in May, in court. The case, which enters its final pretrial stage today, will soon proceed to trial....
German court sentences Gambia man Bai Lowe to life imprisonment for war crimes in The Gambia under Jammeh. (www.jurist.org)
A German court handed down a life imprisonment sentence to Gambian national Bai Lowe on Thursday after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder for his actions with a death squad known as the Junglers, notorious for targeting adversaries of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. The squad’s...
Twenty killed in Sierra Leone attack and nearly 2,000 prisoners escape (www.reuters.com)
Twenty people were killed and nearly 2,000 inmates escaped during Sunday's attack on a military barracks, a prison and other locations in Sierra Leone, officials said on Monday. The West African country was thrown into panic in the early hours when the assailants sent gunfire ringing across the capital Freetown. The government...
Death toll from Somalia floods nears 100 (www.theeastafrican.co.ke)
The death toll from devastating floods in Somalia is close to 100, with almost two million people affected, the country's cabinet said Thursday....
Sudan: Civilians suffering 'unimaginable horror' amid ethnically-motivated violence in Darfur - new testimony (www.amnesty.org.uk)
Civilians were executed in their homes, on the streets and while attempting to flee
News: More than a dozen people killed in Ethiopian Government drone strikes in Amhara; a school and bus station among targets struck: UN (addisstandard.com)
According to a recent statement by the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), drone strikes by Ethiopian government forces in the Amhara region have resulted in the deaths of at least 20 civilians....
Kenya's parliament back Haiti mission despite court case (nz.news.yahoo.com)
Kenya's parliament has approved a controversial plan by the government to deploy about 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help stop gang violence....