2024: Deadliest year ever for aid workers amid global conflicts – UN says
Geneva (Africa News): More aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other single year, the United Nations reported.
Chad threatens to exit regional security force after deadly attack
N’djamena (Africanews): Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby has issued a stark warning that his country may withdraw from a regional security coalition, citing frustrations over its effectiveness in countering insurgent threats in the Lake Chad region.
Haiti PM and Kenya president urge partners to boost support for peacekeeping mission
Nairobi (AfricaNews): The leaders of Kenya and Haiti urged international partners to honor their commitment to the United Nations-backed peacekeeping mission in Haiti, saying the mission needs more resources and that its budget will run out in March 2025.
California to apologize for slavery, racism against Black Americans
Los Ángeles (Africanews): California will formally apologize for slavery and its lingering effects on Black Americans in the state under a new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Africa: 4,000 new mpox cases in a week, but still waiting for vaccines
Kigali (Africanews): Africa is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases with nearly 4,000 reported in the past week, the continent’s public health body said as it repeated a plea for long-awaited vaccines whose arrival this week in the most affected country, Congo, has been delayed.
North America owes its wealth to brutality of slavery: Canadian expert
Kigali (Africanews): The residual influence of slavery remains in North America today, said a Canadian racism expert on the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, which fell on Friday.
UN report says around 733 million people globally faced hunger in 2023
United Nations (Africa News) Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published by five United Nations specialized agencies.
Kagame poised for fourth term with 99.15% of the vote
Kigali (Africanews) President Paul Kagame has won 99% of the vote in provisional results from Monday’s presidential election in Rwanda, electoral authorities said, an outcome that was widely expected as the country’s long-time ruler aims to extend this three-decade grip on power.
President Kagame seeks more votes as campaigns near end
Kigali (Africanews) Rwandan president Paul Kagame was met by crowds of admiring supporters at a rally in Gasabo, some twelve kilometers away from Kigali city center, as he campaigned to win a fourth term as president.
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso form Sahel Alliance
Niamey (africanews): The coup-hit nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso ruled out returning to the West Africa regional bloc whose division could further jeopardize regional efforts to curb the violence spreading across the region.
