Africa

Après le décret d’urgence alimentaire, l’Association de défense des droits des consommateurs au Tchad déplore le manque d’anticipation du gouvernement.

Le Tchad a déclaré, jeudi 2 juin, “l’urgence alimentaire” pour faire face à un détérioration constante de la situation sur ce point. Un décret, signé par le président de la transition, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, fait état d’un risque grandissant pour la population si aucune assistance humanitaire comprenant une aide alimentaire n’est apportée. Selon les Nations unies, en 2021, 5,5 millions de Tchadiens, soit plus du tiers de la population, avaient besoin d’une aide humanitaire d’urgence. Une situation qui s’est aggravée en raison de la guerre en Ukraine et le blocus sur les céréales.

Le task group Jeanne-d’Arc, intégré à l’opération Corymbe de l’armée française, a saisi deux tonnes de cocaïne sur un navire de pêche dans les eaux du golfe de Guinée. Ce qui porte un nouveau coup dur aux trafics illégaux à destination de l’Europe.

The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Friday extending the authorization for countries and regional organizations to inspect vessels on the high seas off the coast of Libya suspected of violating the U.N. arms embargo on the troubled north African nation.

Morocco on Sunday begins welcoming an influx of its citizens living in Europe after the pandemic led to a halt in what has been called one of the world’s biggest cross-continental migrations.

The last such effort in the summer of 2019 saw 3.3 million people and more than three quarters of a million vehicles cross the Gibraltar Strait.

‘The main thing we need is to return home, but we don’t know if we can. Everything there is destroyed.’

There’s almost no one left in Abala, a once-bustling town on the border of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray and Afar regions. Its streets are empty, given over to stray dogs and troops of baboons that scavenge undisturbed among the abandoned houses.

West African leaders Saturday failed to agree what action to take against military juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, postponing a decision for a month, insiders at the meeting said.

They decided to wait until the next ECOWAS summit July 3, a senior source in the Ghanian presidency told AFP, asking to remain anonymous.

Until recently, it seemed as though Algeria’s generals were running out of options. After the 2014 oil price crash, the country experienced years of budgetary constraints and a collapsing currency, followed by the rise of a national protest movement, known as the Hirak, in 2019 that led to the removal of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika by the army in April of that year.