AU Summit: Rights Key for Addressing Crises Protecting Civilians in Mali, Eastern DRC Among Priorities (Addis Ababa, January 21, 2013) – The African Union (AU) should make human rights central to its discussions about crises situations in Africa at its summit meeting this week in Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said today in an open letter [...]
The Secretary General of the African Federation of Environmental Journalists (AFEJ) calls international concern over Kenya and Somalia leaders talks now going on in Nairobi to protect the Somalia’n refugees who are currently under a climate of hopeless as the government of Kenya have ordered the Somali refugees to enter its territory and similarly the [...]
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Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons Chaloka Beyani to mark the coming into force of the Kampala Convention GENEVA (6 December 2012) – “Today, Africa has achieved a milestone and demonstrated its leadership in addressing one of the most pressing humanitarian issues in the world. With the [...]
Community members from Léré in Mali, which is one of the violence hot-spots. ACORD has suspended some livelihood activities until the situation becomes stable. Photo/Awa DIOP ACORD is deeply concerned over the deteriorating humanitarian situation following the Tuareg rebellion led by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) at the beginning of the [...]
Wrote by Daud Abdi Daud Africa is still suffering the affects of global warming which causes Africa to be the poorest region in the world and looked as continent the most vulnerable to the impacts of projected changes due to widespread poverty limits and adaptation capabilities. In fact, so as to draw a close measurable [...]
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Hundreds of families forced from their homes in the 1990s, as well as former refugees, who are living in informal settlements on the outskirts of Bujumbura, the capital, are seeking a lasting shelter alternative to cramped temporary sites. “I am ashamed, I sometimes send some [children] to get shelter in other homes,” Consolate Ndikumana, a [...]
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- With nearly 20,000 Malian refugees now in Burkina Faso, according to Burkina Minister of Communications Alain Traore, and up to 800 more crossing the border each day, the government says it urgently needs more help. The most urgent need is for “shelter, food and medicine” in the country’s northern Sahel Region, said Denis Ouedraogo, [...]
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DAR ES SALAAM/BUJUMBURA, 24 February 2012 (IRIN) – Pressure is mounting on tens of thousands of Burundian nationals who fled to Tanzania during the civil war in the early 1990s to return home, despite their reluctance to leave. Burundi’s civil war ended in 2005 but it remains in a state of acrimonious political deadlock, with [...]
