SIGNIS Africa will hold a workshop to ensure Catholic communication practitioners acquire the requisite skills for effective coverage and reporting on news about refugees. The workshop will be held in Uganda from 10 July to 16 July 2023. Read all
The clashes have killed more than 400 people and injured thousands more. Those displaced are streaming into nations such as Chad, Egypt and South Sudan, adding to a refugee crisis in the region.
Even before its two leading generals went to war last week, “everyone wanted a chunk of Sudan,” an expert said of the strategically located country rich in natural resources.
In April 1994, a sinister call was broadcast over radio stations across Rwanda, triggering the start of 100 days of genocide that left more than one million people dead. Henriette Mutegwaraba heard that call.
United States Vice President Kamala Harris completed a three-nation African Tour, visiting Ghana, Zambia, and Tanzania. “It was an honour being in Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia – strengthening the very important relationship and friendship between the people of the United States and those who live on the continent of Africa” Tweeted Kamala Harris. What inspired…
“We shall now hold protests every Monday and every Thursday beginning next week,” said Raila Odinga, opposition party leader who lost to President William Ruto in Kenya’s last presidential elections. A foreign source covering the recent Kenyan demonstrations said Kenyans are angry Ruto lied to them. Police arrested over 200 people during a March 20…
The U.S. is reprising its playbook in Ukraine, where it has used classified information to expose plans by Russia. Next target: Chad.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in Ethiopia in an effort to support the peace process after a brutal two-year civil war.
NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Janti Soeripto, the CEO and president of Save the Children, who recently visited the Tigray region of Ethiopia, devastated by years of civil war.
Thanks to Denver-based Africa Development Promise (ADP), an estimated 150 people came out to witness the work that the American NGO does, thousands of miles away from its Colorado headquarters. Billed as a Winter Gala, the fundraising event occurred on Saturday, March 4. The location was the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. Attendees…