Machete-wielding militia members killed at least 20 civilians in the week-long attack. Five women and girls were raped and 547 houses were burned and looted. The attack appeared to have been aimed at punishing the Muslim community. The United Nations accused Central African Republic government forces on Monday of training militias and collaborating with private … Read more
Monkeypox was mostly restricted to West and Central Africa until recently. Since May, more than 3,400 cases recorded worldwide among men who have sex with men. The World Health Organization is investigating cases of semen testing positive for monkeypox. British monkeypox patients differ from previous outbreaks’ symptoms, according to the first study examining UK … Read more
The World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the global monkeypox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern. More than 1,600 confirmed monkeypox cases and 1,500 suspected cases have been reported to the WHO this year from 39 countries, Tedros Giannakoulis says. European Union says … Read more
Cameroonian soldiers killed nine civilians, including a baby. The incident took place in the Northwest Region. Anglophone militants declared an independent state in the two regions in 2017. In a “misunderstanding,” soldiers killed nine civilians, including a baby, in one of Cameroon’s conflict-torn anglophone regions last week, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. On June … Read more
The attack occurred overnight in the village of Bwanasura in Irumu territory. Volunteers from the Red Cross in Irumu, “counted 36 bodies”: David Beiza. “Ituri and North Kivu have been under a “state of siege” since May last year. At least 20 people were killed in a new massacre in the Democratic Republic of the … Read more
A member of parliament for the region told AFP on Friday that six soldiers were killed in a rebel assault in the Central African Republic’s southeast, where civil war has raged for years. “At four in the morning, rebels attacked the town of Nzako,” near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, 700 kilometres … Read more
ADDIS ABABA – The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 11,146,001 on Wednesday evening, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union, said the overall death toll of the continent stands at 247,783. A total of 10,311,143 patients across … Read more
ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 10,159,243 cases as of Wednesday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU) said the death toll across the continent stands at 232,363 with 9,046,310 recoveries so … Read more
Paoua – “We are afraid. We cannot know where the mines are hidden.” It is a common refrain in conflict-wracked northwestern Central African Republic, where fear of being killed or maimed by explosive devices laid by rebels stalks the land. The mines, which armed groups fighting government forces have concealed along countless thoroughfares, have also … Read more
