As vaccinations lag behind, COVID-19 cases exceed 9.2 million in Africa
To understand the systemic issues hampering Africa’s efforts against the pandemic, Peoples Dispatch interviewed Dr. Ahmed Kalebi, president of the East African Division of International Academy of Pathology (IAP), and members of the People’s Health Movement, Prof. Leslie London and senior lecturer Lauren Paremoer from the University of Cape Town
Over 83,000 displaced due to violence in Sudan’s Darfur region: OCHA
Among the multiple factors driving the violence are alleged mining interests, contest over land and water, and the attempt to end the war with a power-sharing deal between the leadership of the fighting parties without addressing the root causes or involving the communities
‘UN WFP and USAID have been using humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia to prepare grounds for Western intervention’
Horn of Africa TV’s editor, Elias Amare, talks to Peoples Dispatch on the latest military developments in Ethiopia, the setbacks faced by the TPLF and the collusion of international aid agencies
UN and AU endorse Sudan’s coup government, the streets do not
Protesters are not convinced by the UN and AU’s position that democracy can be won by accepting a government where the real levers of power are held by the military while a cabinet of technocrats is paraded before the international community to maintain the facade of ‘joint military-civilian rule’
Civil war in northern Ethiopia turns in favor of federal government, reversing last month‘s advances by TPLF
Following their victories in the western and eastern front, the joint forces of the federal government and the Amharan militias have recaptured the strategically important towns of Dessie and Kombolcha
Newly elected General Secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo vows: “We will resist”
The congress of Abahlali baseMjondolo, held at a time of severe repression but also of expanding influence, has laid out for South Africa’s shack-dwellers’ movement the road ahead for the next three years.
Country-wide protests planned in Sudan on Thursday against prime minister’s capitulation to army chief
Critics claim that the agreement has not alleviated the level of repression or laid the foundation of any framework in which a transition to democracy can be realized. It only amounts to prime minister Abdalla Hamdok’s complete capitulation to the army generals, they say
Panel says Nigerian army and police were responsible for death of over 100 EndSARS protesters
A leaked report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry which inquired into the killing of civilians in Lagos State in October 2020 indicted the army, police and other government institutions in the murder of over 100 protesters and its cover-up