The death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s West Darfur province climbed to at least 83, including women and children, a doctor’s union and aid worker said, as sporadic violence continued Sunday. The ruling sovereign council met Sunday and said security forces would be deployed to …
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Starvation haunts Ethiopia’s Tigray region
“There is an extreme urgent need — I don’t know what more words in English to use — to rapidly scale up the humanitarian response because the population is dying every day as we speak,” the head of the emergency unit for Doctors Without Borders told the AP. Starvation is …
Read More »Museveni Declared Winner Amid Election Fraud Allegations
Museveni has won a sixth term as president of Uganda while his main challenger, Bobi Wine, has countered with allegations of vote-rigging. One of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, Yoweri Museveni, was declared the winner of Uganda’s presidential election by the country’s electoral commission on Saturday. Museveni, who first took power in …
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