Informes

Officials plan to build extra public conveniences in Addis Ababa, which has just 63 loos for its 3 million inhabitants Addis Ababa has more than 3 million people, but there are just 63 public toilets. At one,…

“Severe food insecurity”, “Emergency” or “Famine” – South Sudan cannot wait for formal definition of hunger crisis Experience shows that more people will die before famine is formally declared, yet South Sudan is not getting the media…

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, August 28 (UNHCR) – When Antonio last stood in his home village of Kwilu, Angola was a colony of Portugal on the verge of becoming independent. A last flourish of fighting…

The government is repressing activists such as Pierre Claver Mbonimpa ahead of elections, and donors must respond Several years have passed since the end of Burundi’s 12-year civil war, which cost tens of thousands of lives. The…

Highlights Inflation: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained stable or changed marginally month-on-month (2-4%) in June-July 2014 across the country. The past two months inflation increased as compared to the previous year, most significantly in the South (21-26%)…

NIERTETI LOCALITY (28 Aug.) - Militiamen gang raped five displaced women in Central Darfur on Wednesday. “On Wednesday evening, five women of the Nierteti camps were assaulted by a group of militiamen in the area of…

The West Darfur sector of the Association of Darfur Displaced and Refugees has welcomed the Paris Declaration, signed on 8 August between the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF, an alliance of the main Sudanese rebel movements) and…

8 August 2014 - The United Nations was treating the recent helicopter crash near the Unity State capital Bentiu, which left three Russian crew members dead, as the result of a hostile attack, the acting UNMISS…

ENTRAL DARFUR / NORTH DARFUR (28 Aug.) - In Nierteti, Central Darfur, 18 children died this week from fever and diarrhoea. In Saraf Umra, North Darfur, at least 20 displaced died of the same ailments. In the…

Parents unable to look after children are marrying them off at a tender age, exposing them to maternal deaths. Amhara, Ethiopia - Mekdes Murgeta does not remember her actual wedding, but her family told her it…