Year: 2022

M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are holding civilians hostage for suspected collaboration with enemy militias as fighting erupted despite recent peace efforts, local sources told AFP Monday.The group — one of scores in the volati…

Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for an end to the “senseless” war in Ukraine, in his traditional Christmas message from St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.The 86-year-old also warned the 10-month-old conflict was aggravating food shortages around the w…

Pape Ale Niang, a prominent Senegalese journalist and government critic who has been on a hunger strike to protest charges against him, has been moved to a hospital, his attorney told AFP on Sunday.Niang was taken to a hospital in Dakar on Saturday eve…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered his wishes to all the Christians celebrating Sunday in his nightly video address on Sunday.Zelenskyy thanked everyone who has “done everything so that we can live. Live our life and in our country.”Among …

Dutch King Willem-Alexander welcomed the government’s apology for the Netherlands’ role in 250 years of slavery in his Christmas address on Sunday, saying it was the “start of a long journey.”Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday officially apologized fo…

Ongoing deterioration of livelihoods in the drought affected regions of Ethiopia continues to result in negative coping mechanisms of communities; incidents of gender-based violence (GBV) are affecting the lives of millions of women and adolescent girl…

Declines in Africa’s rich ecological biodiversity threaten millions of livelihoods, increased food insecurity, conflicts over land, and transmission of zoonotic diseases that can lead to more pandemics.The African continent (20 percent of the planet’s …