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The latest bulletin from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) published on Tuesday counts 4.5 million people who cannot feed themselves without help, 1.7 million Tigrayans have left their homes since the beginning of the war and 62,000 who fled his country to Sudan. The photograph of the humanitarian…

Uncertainty, displacement of populations, restrictions linked to Coronavirus ... For all these reasons, the food situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is deteriorating and this worries the UN. More than 27 million people are on the brink of starvation. The World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture…

In Mali, radio columnist and activist Ras Bath, along with four senior officials, have been detained for more than three months. They are suspected of having conspired against the Malian state. Former Prime Minister Boubou Cissé has also been charged but not arrested, he is currently hiding somewhere in Mali. Malia's justice has already ordered that the prosecution be abolished, but Malia's Minister of…

Civilian movements in eastern Congo demand peacekeepers who cannot stop the violence, according to them. Monusco replies that its role is on the contrary positive. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN mission in the country is responding to the demonstrations of recent days civil society pressure groups including the…

Two terrorist attacks targeted the Malian army, in the middle of the country, and the UN mission in Mali (Minusma), in the far north. The latter was particularly violent. In the same region, the French army, for its part, carried out an attack on a camp of suspected jihadists on Thursday, April 1. From our special…

In a letter to the French authorities, a copy of which Mediapart and the Guardian had, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions accuses the French army of obstructing the UN investigation into the murders of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon in Mali. And condemns "troubled gray areas". In his letter of 30 pages…

On Wednesday, March 31, a group of UN experts condemned the "serious violations of human rights" committed by Russian paramilitaries who are said to be fighting alongside government forces that have been the target of a new uprising since December. The UN expert group on mercenaries condemns the authorities' increased use of private security companies in Bangui, which has been the target of a new uprising since December. But the spokesman for the Central African government, Ange Maxime Kazagui, refutes the use of private…

French Defense Minister Florence Parly ended a two-day visit to Mali on Thursday. She met with the Malian authorities, especially the president of the transition, Ba N'Daw. A UN report says 19 civilians were killed in French strikes in early January in the Malian village of Bounti. But for Paris, it is really terrorists who have been targeted.…

For the UN, it was mainly civilians who were killed on January 3 in the Barkhane strike near Bounti. The spokesman for Antonio Gutteres, the UN Secretary-General, expressed his concern about respect for the precautionary principle. In Paris, the Ministry of Defense and the military claim that Barkhane hit terrorists. as…

On January 3, 2021, Operation Barkhane targeted the village of Bounti, in central Mali. The French army was accused for weeks of mistakenly saying it was targeting jihadists who organized a rally. But the version of the human rights division of Minusma, the UN mission in Mali, is completely different. as reported from Bamako,…