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First aid finally reaches Ethiopia’s Tigray region since cease-fire

A convoy carrying medical supplies arrived Tuesday (15 November) in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the first shipment of international aid to reach the region following a cease-fire and a peace deal agreed by the country’s federal government and Tigrayan forces earlier this month. “The first ICRC medical supplies have just arrived in Mekele […]

France’s Persistent Role in Africa: The Other ‘Indispensable Nation’?

While recently attending a conference in Benin, the crisis in Mali still loomed large. The conflict in Mali had threatened to unravel the entire security situation in the Sahel and Western African nations spent much of the last year bickering whether a military intervention to save Bamako from approaching Islamist militias was feasible. In the […]

Conflict, violence, persecution push displaced people to record 120 million globally – UNHCR

A new record 120 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide due to conflict, violence, and persecution, according to a recent United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) report. The overall number of refugees reached a whopping 117.3 million people as of the end of 2023, representing a significant increase from the previous year. This figure has […]