by Maurizio Sacchi
By Maurizio Sacchi
On 15 May, the decision was announced by the government led by Mali's military junta to leave the G5 Sahel, the joint anti-jihadist force that brings together the Sahelian countries in a military alliance with...
By Alice Pistolesi
The situation in the Horn of Africa has now become dramatic. Due to the lack of rainfall in three consecutive seasons, four countries in the region are facing one of the worst droughts in forty years. The...
By Lucia Michelini for Unimondo*
As in all wars, the current one in Eastern Europe following Russia's invasion of Ukraine is generating effects whose impact is perceived beyond the borders of the states directly involved. The consequences of this conflict...
New York, Mar 11 2022 (IPS) - By Samira Sadeque
Countries on the African continent have a pattern of a six-month break before a new COVID-19 spike happens, researchers at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change have said in...
By our reporter in East Africa, Emanuele Giordana
Somalia and the wider Horn of Africa region are facing one of the most severe droughts in decades. It is one of the elements that complicate the picture in a country with...
by Anna Bisignano
North Kivu is a northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an area that has been unstable for years now, mainly due to the many riches present in the subsoil. The people of North Kivu...
By Anna Bisignano
Since 2009, the Boko Haram uprising and subsequent responses have devastated northeastern Nigeria and the border regions of Cameroon, Chad and Niger. The conflict has caused the deaths of several thousand people, over 2.3 million people are...
Nairobi (from our correspondent)
In 2022 only, ten internet shutdowns in six countries around the world had already caused a loss of more than $621 million. And from 2019 to date, with 257 major service outages in 46 countries, the...
By Alice Pistolesi
The fragility of the African political systems is becoming increasingly evident. In the last eighteen months, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Sudan, Guinea and Chad have been affected by coups d'état. We asked Francesco Strazzari, professor of political...
by Emanuele Giordana, reporting from Nairobi
Africa remains at the centre of the international community's concerns due to all the risks associated with hunger: Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen in particular remain at the highest level of alert, writes...
