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Hausse des prix des transports publics et des produits de consommation : Haiti s’enflamme

Depuis ce week-end, les manifestations et les violences qui se déroulent à Haïti font la une de nombreux médias. La semaine dernière, une hausse du prix des carburants de l’ordre de 40 à 50 % a été annoncée, les prix des transports publics et des produits de consommation aussi....

Sudanese activist Hisham Ali deported from Saudi Arabia detained in Khartoum

Last week, Radio Dabanga reported that Sudanese activist Hisham Ali who was deported from Saudi Arabia, has been detained in Khartoum since May 29. Hisham Ali has been a political activist for many years, and in 2013 he exposed the Sudanese government corruption. He also wrote about...

A nonprofit is helping Haiti’s literacy rate in the ‘forgotten villages’ of Masson and Sarazin

We read an interesting article published on the Haitian Times a couple of days ago titled: How One Organization of Haitian-American Youth is Helping Haiti’s Literacy Rate. Carlotta Mohamed writes about LASH, a mobile project spearheaded by Haitian Americans United for Progress (HAUP), a...

Les survivantes de violences sexuelles interpellent la communauté internationale aux côtés du Dr Mukwege

Il y a quelques jours, en parallèle du Conseil des Droits Humains à Genève, des survivantes de violences sexuelles ont interpelé la communauté internationale pour la reconnaissance et des réparations suite aux agressions qu’elles ont subit. On peut lire sur le site de la...

Salva Kiir and Riek Machar strike peace deal in Khartoum

After almost five years of a deadly civil war, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar meet in Khartoum on June 25, 2018, and it seems the two leaders reached compromises on a number of outstanding issues. Times Live wrote about this...

U.S. Treasury sanctions entities linked to corrupt mining and oil deals in Congo

On June 15, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned 14 entities pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which targets serious human rights abuse and corruption, for being affiliated with designated Israeli businessman and billionaire...

Norway, UK and the United States condemn continued clashes in Jebel Marra, Darfur

A few days ago, the United Nations announced they wanted to scale down UNAMID’s mission in Darfur (read our news here). The Head of UN Peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, told the Security Council that the situation in Darfur has changed “radically for the better” and, as the needs...

Viols au Kavumu : l’attente du verdict du procès en appel

Il s’agit de viols de bébés et d’enfants, par dizaines. Pendant 3 ans, de 2013 à 2016, les petites victimes âgées de 8 mois à 12 ans ont été violées par une milice dans le village de Kavumu, dans la province du Sud-Kivu au Congo. Alors qu’une dizaine de...

Nabeel Rajab named an honorary citizen of the city of Paris

Jailed Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was named an honorary citizen of the city of Paris a few days ago. We have already posted and tweeted about Rajab several times, a leading figure in pro-democracy protests that swept Bahrain in 2011. He is in jail for tweets condemning the use of...

Sudan reinstates nationality to people of South Sudanese origin

A couple of months ago, an article published on 7DNews explained that under a new proposed amendment to the Sudanese Nationality Act of 1994 the Sudanese government will withdraw Sudanese nationality from South Sudanese living in north Sudan unless they can prove residence since before...