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Eighty percent of them were displaced within five countries -- the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan

World

Internal displacement in Africa triples in 15 years: monitor

Conflicts, violence and disasters across Africa have dramatically driven up the number of displaced people on the continent over the past 15 years, international...

AFPNovember 25, 2024

The world's richest one percent increased their fortunes by a total of $42 trillion over the past decade, Oxfam says

Business

World’s richest 1% gained $40 tn in a decade: Oxfam

The world’s richest one percent increased their fortunes by a total of $42 trillion over the past decade, Oxfam said Thursday, ahead of a...

AFPJuly 25, 2024

Total Energies' $10-billion Tilenga project involves drilling more than 400 oil wells in western Uganda, many of them in Murchison Falls Nature Park, a biodiversity reserve and the country's largest national park

Business

TotalEnergies Uganda oil project ‘devastating’: conservationist

Production has yet to begin, but TotalEnergies’ controversial East African oil project is already taking a dire environmental toll in Uganda’s largest national parks,...

AFPJuly 12, 2024

World

Nuclear arms spending soars as global tensions swell: studies

Nuclear-armed countries hiked spending on atomic weapons arsenals by a third in the past five years as they modernised their stockpiles amid growing geopolitical...

AFPJune 17, 2024

Italian courts have already overturned several detention orders issued against migrant rescue ships

World

Battle in courts between Italy and migrant rescue charities

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s battle with migrant rescue charities is increasingly ending up in court, with judges often siding with NGOs but not...

AFPJune 12, 2024

Since war broke out in Gaza conditions for Palestinian detainees have deteriorated dramatically, say rights groups

World

Rights advocates denounce ‘systemic abuse’ in Israeli prisons

In the shadow of the war raging in Gaza, record numbers of Palestinian detainees are filling Israeli prisons, where they face “systemic abuse” and...

AFPMarch 16, 2024

Trade unionists shout slogans as they take to the streets of Tunis to protest against proposed legislation that will grant the government sweeping powers over NGOs

World

Tunisian civil society fears plan to limit foreign funding

Tunisian civil society groups fear the government is planning to starve them of foreign funding under the pretext of fighting money laundering and terrorism. ...

AFPMarch 3, 2024