South Africa has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. A whopping 63% of its young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years are jobless. A large proportion of these young people have never worked in the formal economy. The media frequently portray young people excluded from wage work as inactive, aimless […]
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WFP welcomes commitment to famine prevention by G7; calls for swift action to prevent widespread catastrophe
ROME – This weekend, leaders of the G7 acknowledged the unprecedented humanitarian crisis our world faces today as more than 34 million people teeter on the edge of famine and endorsed a Famine Prevention Compact to urgently address the problem. This is a welcome move. We can pull each of these 34 million individuals back […]
Ethiopia: Tigray: Humanitarian Access Snapshot (May 2021)
The operational environment in Tigray remains highly complex and fluid. In May, humanitarian access worsened in some hotspots as a result of hostilities and denials of movement by parties to the conflict. Ethiopia National Defense Forces (ENDF), Eritrea National Defense Forces (ErDF), and Amhara Special Forces (ASF) continue engaging with former Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) […]
At least 33,000 children in parts of Tigray, Ethiopia, at imminent risk of death as conflict increases famine threat
Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore NEW YORK, 14 June 2021 – “At least 33,000 children in inaccessible parts of Tigray, Ethiopia, are severely malnourished and face imminent death without immediate help. “These children are among more than 2.2 million in northern Ethiopia who are acutely food insecure, including at least 140,000 in Tigray who […]
Threat of genocide real in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, (CAJ News) – THERE is concern about the situation in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia degenerating into genocide. Upcoming elections scheduled for the East African country have coincided with the divisions. “On top of ethnic targeting and massacres within Tigray, there have been reports of government discrimination, demonization and hate speech directed at Tigrayans in […]
Ethiopians to Go to Polls in June 2021
Ethiopia is one of the few African countries which has a very long history of constitutional practice. However, its experience on holding a multiparty election is not that aged as its constitutional practice. In 1995, Ethiopia was able to hold the first multiparty elections in its history after two decades of military dictatorship and civil […]