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Somalia’s Mental Health Struggles Intensify Amid Conflict and Poverty

Mogadishu (AX) — For many years, Somalia has been caught in a storm of turmoil, poverty, and uprooting that's left the nation's mental health in shambles. This dire situation has largely been ignored, as highlighted by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). "Women and kids are really taking the hardest hit," they noted in a recent report, pointing to the intensifying mental stress blanketing these already strained communities. From the start of 2024 to September, MSF's dedicated mental health squads have…

Niger in the spiral of economic crisis

With less than 6,000 cases of Covid-19 registered for 195 deaths, Niger is one of the least affected countries from a health point of view, but its economy is one of the most affected. And the impact of the pandemic has exacerbated the existence of uncertainty in production and exacerbated the number of Nigerians who end up in very great insecurity.…

“They carry heavy luggage ten hours a day”

Saturday 12 June is World Day Against Child Labor, a day organized under the auspices of the UN. Three days ago, Unicef ​​and the International Labor Organization pointed out in a report the increase in the number of children forced to work in the world due to the effects of the pandemic. Children's rights NGOs warn of the physical, health and economic consequences of these forms of exploitation for minors. The majority of them are between 5 and 11 years old. According toa report published by Unicef ​​and the…

‘Chess in the slums’: Nigerian children search better

In the same way as scenes of Beth Harmon discovering chess in the basement and rising through the world with her championship in chess in the Queen's Gambit, young children in the Majidun district of Nigeria's Lagos crowd around plastic tables and boards and learn about the centuries-old games in hope it gives a better life. Shantytown on the waterfront is across the lagoon from the mansions and high office blocks of Nigeria's commercial capital. They hope that the cunning and strategy they learn on…

the foremost funders of the G20 decide to

The most important financiers of the G20, throughout this yr's presidency of Italy, spoke at a video convention alongside the World Financial institution and Worldwide Financial Fund's spring conferences. Finance ministers and central financial institution governors have promised not to finish measures to help economies prematurely. Additionally they referred to as for intensified assist to essentially…

South Africa: begin of educational yr disrupted

In the last two weeks, students have been demonstrating in South Africa against the lack of funding for higher education and too high tuition fees. The crisis is about the issue of student debt. Those who are unable to pay their tuition fees are prevented from enrolling or threatened with exclusion. .

Médibus, a cell clinic for most individuals

A mobile clinic has been wandering around Greater Tunis for a year. The device was set up at the start of confinement in March last year and makes it possible to reach out to the field people in great insecurity, homeless, excluded from the system. Report on board Médibus. Until now, this homeless man in his sixties refused to…

the pandemic accentuates poverty

In its economic report, published on Wednesday, December 16, the World Bank estimates that almost 1.9 million more Malagasy people will fall below the poverty line, bringing the poverty rate to almost 78%, the highest in the country. country since 2012. as reported from Madagascar, Laure VerneauThe economy contracted by 4.2%…

always more people in soup kitchens

In the capital of Madagascar, soup kitchens attract a little more people every day. Between the economic consequences of the health crisis and the general impoverishment of the country, the number of people in need has never been so high, the associations explain. From our correspondent in Antananarivo,16.00 In the…

the diaspora wallet is empty

It is the lifeline of millions of Africans. Diaspora money weighs much more than development aid from rich countries. But this year, the amounts are declining due to the economic crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the UN, it will decrease by 21%. Sending money to one's family is the main goal of immigrants.…

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