Africa’s top health authority has declared mpox a public health emergency, responding to a rapidly spreading new strain of the virus. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) reports over 13,700 cases and 450 deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the year’s start, with the outbreak extending to several neighboring […]
More than 1,000 civilians have fled the Sudanese city of El-Fasher in North Darfur amid escalating clashes between the national Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Local organizations report on Monday, October 27, that 1,117 new internally displaced persons (IDPs), representing 360 families, have arrived in the nearby town of Tawila on Sunday, […]
Morocco had expressed its firm rejection of Algeria’s double speak as it desperately seeks to expand the mandate of the UN mission to the Sahara, MINURSO, to include human rights. Speaking in a public debate at the Security Council, Algeria’s representative to the UN, reiterated his country’s call for the MINURSO to include human rights […]
