Killings, kidnapping and looting have driven 11,500 Nigerians to seek safety in Niger’s Tahoua region in November. By Boubacar Younoussa Siddo in Bangui, Niger Over three nights in November, armed groups, locally called “bandits,” attacked villages in the border area of Sabon Birni, Sokoto State in Northwest Nigeria. Armed men stormed Rachida Naino’s village in […]
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we draw from IDMC’s latest research in Nigeria and Colombia to highlight how the negative effects of displacement fall heavily on those with disabilities. “Communities are most frequently attacked without warning and usually in the early hours,” says David Sabo, a humanitarian programme specialist with CBM International in […]
GENEVA (3 December 2021) — UN human rights experts* today expressed grave concern about the widespread sexual and gender-based violence committed against women and girls in the Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia by parties to the conflict. They reiterated the recommendations by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission-Office of the High Commissioner for Human […]
SITUATION AT A GLANCE 6.5-7 MILLION People Facing Severe Acute Food Insecurity in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray USAID – October 2021 8.1 MILLION People Targeted for Humanitarian Assistance in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray UN – November 2021 2.1 MILLION People Displaced by the Crisis Across Northern Ethiopia IOM – August 2021 50,159 Refugees From Northern […]
Gambella, Ethiopia – “My only joy is my child, I don’t have anything else in life,” says Nyabel Jock, a 19-year-old South Sudanese refugee, during her regular pregnancy check-up at the Jewi Health Centre, Jewi Refugee Camp, Gambella, Ethiopia. Nyabel fled to Ethiopia more than five years ago from Nasir in the Upper Nile state […]
ADDIS ABABA – The number of people in need of humanitarian food assistance across northern Ethiopia has grown to an estimated 9.4 million as a direct result of ongoing conflict, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today. Amhara region – the frontlines of the conflict in Ethiopia – has seen the largest jump in […]
Cape Town — Thousands of citizens plan to march across the country today, despite assurances from Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok that he will step down if the Sudanese people see that the political agreement does not serve their interests. Rayan Ma’mon from the Khartoum Resistance Commitee said people are still as committed “to take down the militia rule”, […]
UNITAMS is gravely concerned by the significant rise in tribal and intercommunal violence, resulting in the unfortunate loss of civilian lives and livelihoods, most recently in Tawila, Dar Es Salam and Sortoni, Kabkabiya localities of North Darfur and Jebel Moon, West Darfur. Reports indicate that scores of people have been killed and many others injured […]
Brazzaville – Only 27% of health workers in Africa have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, leaving the bulk of the workforce on the frontlines against the pandemic unprotected, a preliminary analysis by World Health Organization (WHO) shows. Analysis of data reported from 25 countries finds that since March 2021, 1.3 million health workers were fully […]
Cabinet approves principles on criminalising citizens ‘unlawful’ engagement with foreign governments
Statement on Cabinet’s approval of principles criminalising citizens ‘unlawful’ engagement with foreign governments. The Ministry of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on 16 November 2021 said Cabinet has approved principles aimed at amending the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act to criminalise citizens’ unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments. This was disclosed following submissions made by […]