Humanitarian

The humanitarian scenario in Ethiopia's Tigray area is "more and more vital," the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees mentioned on Tuesday, warning of dire want for help. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered troops to Tigray on November 4 following alleged assaults by Tigray Folks's Liberation Entrance (TPLF) forces on federal navy camps within the northern area. Abiy, the winner of final 12 months's Nobel Peace Prize, declared victory in Tigray on November 28 however mentioned on…

Almost a million individuals at the moment are displaced in Tigray or refugees in neighboring Sudan. The wants are monumental in meals, drugs, hygiene merchandise. An settlement signed on Wednesday between Addis Ababa and the UN was to supply entry to help to Tigray. However at current the state of affairs isn't but unblocked.…

Ethiopia and the UN reached an settlement on Wednesday to permit help to government-controlled areas within the Tigray area the place federal troops have declared their army operation towards native forces, two UN officers stated. The settlement will enable first help to the area of 6 million individuals who have been interrupted throughout preventing that started a month in the past between the federal and Tigray regional governments. Every considers the opposite unlawful in an influence battle that…

The country celebrates its 60th anniversary of its independence this Saturday, November 28. But this date also marks another anniversary, painful: the massacre of 28 black soldiers, hanged at the base of the Inal, in the Nouadhibou region, on November 28, 1990. A drama that is part of a period of bloody repression against the Negro Mauritanians, between 1989 and 1991. A period was qualified as…

Last Tuesday, the UN sounded the alarm by calling the crisis in Tigray a great tragedy. Since that conversation, nothing has really changed. Conflicts have continued for 18 days in Ethiopia's Tigray region between the federal army and troops from Tigray's dissident party, the TPLF. A conflict without independent witnesses. On Friday, the Ethiopian government said its troops had advanced in the direction of the provincial capital Mekelle, while the Tigray party claimed to have recaptured a city from the troops in Addis…

While the conflict in Tigray has begun its third week, the province is still cut off from the world and the scarce information comes mainly from press releases from the warriors. But for the first time, independent information was released on Tuesday, November 17, when the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was able to visit hospitals in Gondar and Mekelle, in need of everything. NGO…

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, calls for "urgent action" to protect the civilian population in northern Mozambique. In a press release released on Friday, November 13, Chile's former president said the situation was "desperate" in the Cabo Delgado region, plagued by a spate of attacks by Shebab jihadists claiming to be part of the Islamic State.…

"Behind the scenes of a liberation". It is a title that we find at the same time on the front page of Le Figaro and on the front page of Liberation exactly when Le Monde prefers to show "the end of the ordeal for Sophie Pétronin". Because, of course, the newspapers are returning to the release of this 75-year-old French humanitarian, Thursday night after nearly four years of captivity in Mali. A liberation, yes, and "a lot of questions" according to Le Parisien Today in France. The first of them on Emmanuel Macron's…