Could normalization between Israel and Sudan endangered by internal Israeli rivalries?
Is it possible that the coup of Israeli-Sudanese normalization could be endangered by internal Israeli rivalries?
Earlier this week, Axios reported that senior Sudanese civilian officials were complaining to both Israeli and US government officials about uncoordinated side contacts between the Mossad and Sudanese military officials.
Les circonstances du décès de son président de père, Idriss Déby Itno, son ambition pour le pays, ses intentions personnelles, ses liens avec le reste de sa fratrie… Pour la première fois, le nouveau chef de l’État tchadien s’exprime.
Quand on lui demande, histoire de tester ses éventuelles arrière-pensées, s’il préfère figurer en couverture de JA en militaire ou en civil, Mahamat Idriss Déby répond dans un demi-sourire : « les deux ». Manière d’éviter un piège trop évident bien sûr, lui qui se sait scruté de près par les Tchadiens et la communauté internationale.
An investigative report says that Russian operatives in the Central African Republic who had been billed as unarmed advisers are actually leading the fighting, including massacres of civilians.
Russian mercenaries deployed in one of Africa’s most fragile countries killed civilians, looted homes and shot dead worshipers at a mosque during a major military operation earlier this year, United Nations investigators have found.
The United States estimates that up to 900,000 people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region now face famine conditions amid a deadly conflict, even as the prime minister says there is “no hunger” there.
The hunger crisis in Tigray is the world’s worst in a decade, and the new famine findings are “terrifying,” the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, said Friday, adding that millions more people are at risk.
MSF says it condemns attack on colleagues ‘in strongest possible terms’ after bodies found near car
Three aid workers who had been working in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have bee found dead, their organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, announced on Friday.
La multiplication des contestations populaires n’y change rien : nos dirigeants peinent à se montrer à la hauteur des nouveaux challenges que le continent doit relever. Plus préoccupant, ils ne prennent toujours pas la mesure des aspirations d’une jeunesse désoeuvrée mais connectée, qui ne souffre plus aujourd’hui ce que ses parents enduraient hier. Comment sortir de l’impasse ?
“…the conflicts in the three states… that recorded deaths of 35,000 at the end of 2019, increased by 10 times at nearly 350,000 deaths through the end of 2020, with 314,000 of those from indirect causes.”
About 1.1 million lives could be lost by 2030, if the insurgency ravaging Nigeria’s North-east region continues, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has said in a new report.
The report also said the over a decade conflict in the war-torn states of Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe “had increased by 10 times killing nearly 350,000 people as of the end of 2020”.
PREMIUM TIMES had reported in August 2019, that the insurgency led by extremist Islamic groups had killed an estimated 35,000 in the North-east parts of Nigeria since the beginning of the conflict in 2009.
The UNDP Resident Representative, Mohamed Yahya, said this in a statement Thursday at the virtual launching of the UN report titled, “Assessing the Impact of Conflict on Development in North-east Nigeria.”
Citing the report, Mr Yahaya said that critical aspect of progress and development, including Gross Domestic Product (GDP), poverty, malnutrition, infant mortality, education, water availability and sanitation, may not return to pre-conflict levels in the region even by 2030.
He said findings from the report show that “for each casualty caused directly by insurgency, an additional nine people, primarily children, have lost their lives due to a lack of food and resources – and more than 90 per cent of conflict-attributable deaths are of children under the age of five”.
The report further notes that the economic destruction brought by the insurgency “has dismantled already fragile health and food systems with less than 60 per cent of health facilities in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states are fully functional, while a quarter is either destroyed or non-functional.”
“Without continued investment in development as a long-term solution, the protracted conflict in North-east Nigeria will continue to impact other parts of the country and the entire Sahel region,” Mr Yahya said.
He added that “There is a need for international partners and national stakeholders to ensure that funds are invested not only on life-saving and humanitarian needs but also mid-and long-term development priorities in order to enable Nigeria to achieve the SDGs and attain the AU 2063”.
Breakdown
According to the report, “the conflicts in the three states of Borno Adamawa and Yobe that recorded deaths of 35,000 at the end of 2019, increased by 10 times at nearly 350,000 deaths through the end of 2020, with 314,000 of those from indirect causes.”
The index added that “for every year that conflict continues; infants and children are the most impacted – with about 170 children under five years die daily – and by 2030, it is estimated to grow by 240”.
It said women and children make up 80 per cent of the displaced population in the North-east and have limited options for work and survival, including difficulties accessing resources.
In 2020, findings from the report estimates that 1.8 million students are out of school who would have been enrolled if not for conflict.
“By 2030, in the conflict scenario, the average Nigerian in the BAY states will have had a full year (20 per cent) of education less than expected in the No Conflict scenario
“As of 2019, 81 per cent of people living in Yobe, 64 per cent in Borno, and 60 per cent in Adamawa suffer from multidimensional poverty, a measure that accounts for deprivation with respect to standards of living, health, and education.”
Recommendations
The report sas to overcome the conflict, “development efforts need to be focused on the stabilisation of affected areas through a community-level approach that enhances physical security and access to justice, rehabilitation of essential infrastructure and basic service delivery as well as the revitalisation of the local economy such as market stalls, schools and police stations”.
Nigeria has continued to battle attacks from groups like Boko Haram and the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP). Both have terrorised Nigeria’s North-east geopolitical zone for more than a decade.
This has led to massive internal displacement with more than 1.8 million Nigerians displaced in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states, with the vast majority (nearly 1.5 million) located in Borno.
In addition, 1.8 million students were out of school in 2020, according to data from the UN.
Despite the repeated bloody attacks the Nigerian government, also burdened by insecurity in virtually all parts of the country, has continued to claim that the terrorists have been defeated.
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Sudanese Foreign Minister Mariam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi ruled out using force to stop Ethiopia’s second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Sudanese media reported on Friday.
“The first filling of the dam was a stab in the back,” she conveyed in press remarks, noting that it caused a “massive shock” to confidence between the two countries.
A massacre in northeast Burkina Faso in which more than 130 people were killed this month was carried out mostly by children between the ages of 12 and 14, the government said.
Armed assailants raided the village of Solhan on the evening of June 4, opened fire on residents and burned homes. It was the worst attack in years in an area plagued by jihadists linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda.
Government spokesman Ousseni Tamboura said the majority of the attackers were children, prompting condemnation from the U.N.
“We strongly condemn the recruitment of children and adolescents by non-state armed groups. This is a grave violation of their fundamental rights,” the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF said in a statement on Thursday.
Despite interventions from U.N. peacekeepers and international armed forces, attacks by Islamist extremists continue unabated across West Africa’s Sahel region, including neighbouring Mali and Niger.
Local officials in Burkina Faso’s north, where jihadists control large areas, said child soldiers have been used by Islamist groups over the past year, but this month’s attack was by far the highest profile case.
It represented a new low for the impoverished West African country that since 2018 has seen a sharp rise in attacks on civilians and soldiers.
Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 1.2 million are displaced, UNICEF said, many of whom have been forced into makeshift camps dotted across the arid north, east and centre. Over 2,200 schools have been closed – about one in ten – affecting over 300,000 children.