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Sahel, West Africa Facing Worst Food Crisis in Decade

Millions of people in the Sahel and West Africa are facing the worst food crisis in a decade as conflict and climate disasters send the price of essential commodities soaring.The World Food Program reports the number of hungry people across West Africa…

Study Finds Africa COVID Infections Grossly Underestimated

A study by the World Health Organization finds the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa to be a fraction of the true number of people infected with the coronavirus that causes the disease.A new analysis of the spread and the presence of asympto…

Rights Groups Call for Investigation into Mali Killings

Human Rights Watch and Mali’s National Commission on Human Rights have called for an independent investigation into an alleged massacre of hundreds of civilians by government troops and suspected Russian mercenaries. After reports surfaced of the killi…

ICRC: One Quarter of Africans Face ‘Food Security Crisis’

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says one quarter of Africa’s 346 million people faces a “food security crisis.”The problem, the ICRC says, spans the entire continent with “millions of families skipping meals every day” and “an alarm…

US Calls Reports of Many Killed in Mali ‘Extremely Disturbing’

The United States is following “extremely disturbing accounts” of large numbers of people killed in a village in central Mali, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Sunday.Mali’s military said on Saturday that it had killed more than 200 Isla…