Africa

As Sudan plunges into another chapter of fighting, the country is enduring the world’s worst humanitarian crisis at a time of drastically shrinking foreign aid.

Two years of war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have created a humanitarian disaster. The country is coping with mass displacement, famine, and war crimes against its civilians while its most crucial aid source—the United States—sharply pulls back on assistance. Sudan’s third year of war could be shaping up to be one of its most brutal.

Les assauts contre l’armée béninoise se sont intensifiés ces derniers mois dans le nord du pays, où une attaque djihadiste a fait 54 morts le 17 avril dans les rangs des militaires.

Le nord du Bénin, confronté à des attaques djihadistes de plus en plus meurtrières, paie le prix fort d’une coopération sécuritaire défaillante entre ce pays du golfe de Guinée et ses voisins sahéliens, le Burkina Faso et le Niger, qui ouvre la voie aux islamistes, selon des experts interrogés par l’Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Des unités de la garde nationale ont mis le feu aux tentes installées dans des oliveraies du centre-est du pays, sur fond d’accélération des retours « volontaires » des migrants dans leurs pays.

Les autorités tunisiennes ont de nouveau démantelé jeudi 24 avril des camps de fortune de migrants originaires d’Afrique subsaharienne, installés dans des oliveraies dans le centre-est du pays, sur fond d’accélération des retours « volontaires » de personnes migrantes dans leurs pays. Des unités de la garde nationale ont mis le feu aux tentes dans ces camps, selon un journaliste de l’Agence France-Presse (AFP) sur place.

Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1,800 migrants and left them at the Nigerien border in a record expulsion earlier this month, a Niger-based migrant rights group said Thursday.

Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as “Point Zero” after being apprehended in Algerian cities.

A new study from Europe provides insight into how migrants lock and smuggling is working in Libya. Not only local rulers are involved, Russian interests are also involved.

Since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Russia has had a problem: the future of its naval base at the Mediterranean port of Tartus and its Syrian air base Hmeim is in question. It is uncertain whether and, if so, to what extent the Russian military can hold both bases in Syria after Moscow’s partner Assad has been expelled.

Libyan authorities recently ordered ten international aid organizations to suspend their operations and close offices in the country, accusing them of providing humanitarian assistance to help resettle African migrants in “a plot” to change the demographic composition of Libyan society.

The statement reflects similar incendiary comments from Tunisian President Kais Saied in 2023, echoing the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.

And other peoples’ heroes.

The scene is a middle-class dining-room in a western country in the late 1960s. A fresh-faced Child, flushed with excitement, just home from university, recounts their participation in a march against the Vietnam War.

“So what you mean” says Parent, “is that you want the Communist system set up here. You won’t be so happy when they take you away to a labour camp like they do in Vietnam.” the discussion rapidly degenerates into an exchange of insults and Child rushes out of the room.