Horn of Africa

Photo: Tigray protestors outside of the UN. Credit: EPA-EFE/Kim Ludbrook. Source: ALJAZEERA

Peace Foundation Leader Asks: “Is the US Leading the War on Tigray?”

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK (IDN) — The disastrous war in the Horn of Africa is being guided secretly by the US, according to briefings reported by the World Peace Foundation (WPF), a philanthropic foundation for research into peace processes affiliated with Massachusetts-based Fletcher School of Law.

The year-long conflict in Ethiopia pitting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and its allies against the Ethiopian government has caused thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of battlefield casualties.

: Global Information Network; THE WORLD; Horn of Africa; 12 October 2022

Photo: Kenyan youth protest against Global North's failure to reduce CO2 emissions.

Kenyan Youth Seek Compensation from Rich Countries Responsible for Climate Change

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK (IDN) — Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Nairobi on September 24 to demand that wealthy countries pay more in the fight against climate change.

"We need the Global North to pay for the damages they are causing," said Duncan Omwami, an activist who joined the protest.

: Global Information Network; SUSTAINABILITY; Climate Action; 26 September 2022

Photo: Tigray TV said death toll reached seven and broadcast footage of mangled playground equipment and a brightly painted compound in ruins at the apparent scene of the strike. Source: TRT World.

Tigray: After the Calm, A Possible Storm

Viewpoint by René Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens

GENEVA (IDN) — On August 26, 2022, there was the bombing by Ethiopian federal troops of a primary school in Mekelle—the capital city of the Tigray province, which had a population of about 500,000 before the fighting began. It is not clear if the attack brings to an end some five months of relative calm in the war-torn Tigray or not.

: UN Bureau; THE WORLD; Horn of Africa; 31 August 2022

Photo: In the Sea of Marmara, UN Secretary-General António Guterres observes the WFP ship SSI Invincible 2, headed to Ukraine to pick up the largest cargo of grain yet exported under the Black Sea Grain Initiative. UN Photo/Mark Garten

UN Chief Visits ‘Vessels of Hope’ Before returning to New York

By Radwan Jakeem

NEW YORK (IDN) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres oversaw on August 20 the departure of two ships involved in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-brokered operation to bring urgently needed hunger relief to the Horn of Africa.

Mr. Guterres flew into Istanbul on August 20 from Chisinau, Moldova—where he was hosted for a working dinner with President Maia Sandu the previous evening—and boarded a pilot boat in the Sea of Marmara.

: Radwan Jakeem; SUSTAINABILITY; Food security, nutrition & sustainable agriculture; 21 August 2022

Photo: Hungry kids in South Sudan. Credit: Siegfried_Modola | The Star

Humanitarian Food Grain on way to Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK (IDN) — A UN-chartered vessel has been loaded with humanitarian food grain for Africa, in a first step toward releasing much needed food aid that had been trapped in the Ukraine.

The vessel will carry 23,000 tons of grain for Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya as part of a UN-backed plan to move the grain trapped by Russia's war on Ukraine and help relieve a global food crisis.

: Global Information Network; SUSTAINABILITY; Food security, nutrition & sustainable agriculture; 15 August 2022

Millions of Lives in Peril in the Greater Horn of Africa

UN Health Agency Calls for USD 123.7 million Until December 2022

By Jaya Ramachandran

GENEVA | NAIROBI (IDN) — The UN health agency, World Health Organization (WHO), has launched a funding appeal for USD 123.7 million to carry out urgent life-saving work in the greater Horn of Africa. The region also faces an unprecedented food crisis.

More than 80 million people in the seven countries spanning the region—Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda—are estimated to be food insecure. Over 37.5 million people are classified as being in IPC phase 3, a stage of crisis where people have to sell their possessions in order to feed themselves and their families, and where malnutrition is rife.

: Jaya Ramachandran; SUSTAINABILITY; Health & Well Being; 04 August 2022

Photo: A mother and her child pass by carcasses of goats and sheep in Luuq, Somalia on 21 March 2022. UN Photo/Fardosa Hussein

Deep Cuts in Funds for African Drought Victims as Money Flows to Europe

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK (IDN) — The war in Ukraine is draining millions of dollars away from crises in Africa as funds are being redirected to Europe.

Somalia, facing a food shortage largely driven by the war, could be the most vulnerable. Its aid funding is less than half of last year’s level, while Western donors have sent more than $1.7 billion to respond to the war in Europe.