Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Urge UN to Condemn Ukraine Over Rebel Support Allegations
The military governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have reached out to the UN Security Council
Extensive draught and hostilities in sub-Saharan African countries could lead to a catastrophic famine, warned charity organization Oxfam.
According to the charity, the disaster could affect as many as 13 M people in the region of West Africa known as the Sahel.
The charity says the international community waited too long to respond to famine in East Africa last year, writes the BBC.
Oxfam has launched a USD 36 M emergency appeal to help reach more than a million of the most vulnerable.
Launching its appeal, Oxfam said that malnutrition rates across Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and northern Senegal are hovering between 10% and 15%, and in some areas have risen beyond the emergency threshold level of 15%.
The number of children at risk of severe malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa is well over a million, according to the organization's data.
In addition to droughts leading to poor crops, fighting between rebels and the army in northern Mali has caused more than 100,000 people to flee their homes - half of them crossing into Niger and other countries that are already hard-pressed.
Russia’s recently dismissed Transport Minister Roman Starovoit has reportedly died by suicide
Tsvetelina Penkova, Bulgarian MEP from the Socialists and Democrats group and secretary for international affairs of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, discussed Bulgaria's European trajectory
The return of compulsory military service is once again at the center of political debate in Europe, driven by heightened security concerns following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Danish MEP Niels Fuglsang, representing the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, described Bulgaria’s anticipated entry into the eurozone
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