Donors in plan to build Libya’s food resilience against a backdrop of scarcity, political upheavals
The African Development Bank has rolled out a $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility to boost food security and nutrition. Launched in May last year, the facility is helping Africa mitigate rising food prices and inflation, worsened by climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. The bank also co-organised a food summit in January in Dakar, Senegal, which produced food compacts for African countries.
Russia launches night cruise missile attack on Ukraine’s Lviv city, kills at least four people
Ukraine’s airforce reported it intercepted seven of the 10 Kalibr cruise missiles that Russia fired from Black Sea toward the Lviv region and its namesake city – more than 800 kilometres (500 miles) away — around 1 am on Thursday. The Kremlin’s forces have repeatedly hit civilian areas during the war, although Russian officials say they choose only targets of military value.
Sexual exploitation and abuse still rife in the strife-torn DR Congo despite UN intervention
UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence Pramila Patten says from April 17 to 30 this year Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams treated 674 victims of sexual violence in six IDP (internally displaced persons) sites in North Kivu. In the first quarter of 2023, MONUSCO documented 187 cases in North and South Kivu, Ituri and Maniema. Last year UNICEF reported more than 38,000 cases of gender-based sexual violence in North Kivu.
Germany partners with ADB in nearly $11m Nepad infrastructure development plan in Africa
N’Sele says: As economies in Africa navigate new challenges in the face of overlapping global crises, the support of partners such as Germany will enable the African Development Bank to deliver on its important development mission.
Covid truth: Court censures American academia for being compromised to censor Americans
Independent journalist Paul D. Thacker, who released several instalments of the “Twitter Files,” told The Defender the ruling also has implications for the collusion of academic institutions with the federal government and social media platforms under the guise of combating “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
Judge likens Biden regime to dystopian ‘Ministry of Truth’ that spreads lies, orders White House to stop censoring social media
Judge Terry Doughty: “During the Covid-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterised by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”
ADF school attack: A ‘suicidal’ sense of economic exclusion makes Uganda amenable to terrorism
Kaduyu says the ADF’s recent attacks have increased discrimination against Muslim communities, leading to a decline in interfaith and community relations. Uganda’s Internal Affairs Minister, Major General Kahinda Otafiire, visited a Kampala primary school for Eid al-Adha in June to raise awareness around Islamist extremism and dissuade communities from supporting violent extremist ideologies. He urged the police to stop profiling Muslim citizens as terrorists.
Russia, Ukraine trade blame over who’s behind imminent attack on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
President Zelensky and the Ukrainian military also provided no evidence for their assertions. None of the reactors at the plant is producing electricity. In his nightly video message, Zelensky said Russia was planning to “simulate an attack on the plant. Or they could have some other kind of scenario.
Experts: Lift on logging ban in Kenya is expected to fuel unbridled harvesting of endangered species
While stakeholders have not yet received full details of the government’s methodology for deciding which trees are ready to harvest, Kioli said a nationwide lifting of the ban would make it difficult to monitor the move’s environmental impacts.
Fall out between Putin and Prigozhin presents Moscow chance to retune its foreign policy in Africa – ISS
The deal in Central African Republic, as elsewhere in Africa, has been a barter arrangement where Wagner supplied the muscle and Touadéra gave it carte blanche to take whatever gold, diamonds and other minerals it wanted. In both cases Wagner has committed widespread atrocities, the report said, indiscriminately massacring men, women and children of the ethnic communities that are the strongholds of its political opponents, and eliminating artisanal miners so Wagner can seize the mines.
