The World Health Organization on Wednesday took the long-discussed step of declaring a global health emergency over the monkeypox or “mpox” outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has begun spreading into neighboring African nations.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus may declare an international health emergency for monkeypox.
Burundi’s president died last week of coronavirus, according to medical documents seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP), and despite the government’s official statement that the head of state died from a heart attack, the French news agency reported on Monday.
President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza died of a heart attack, the government said in a statement on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The government of Equatorial Guinea joined Burundi in announcing the expulsion of the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) representatives in the country, citing a document that alleges they falsified the number of cases of the Chinese coronavirus.
Burundi successfully held its first competitive national election since its civil war in 1993 on Wednesday, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has hindered elections in other countries, Reuters reported.
Burundi expelled the top World Health Organization (W.H.O.) official in the nation on Friday, ordering him to leave after he objected to packed political rallies held for an upcoming presidential election amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
The government of Burundi has forced the United Nations to close its local human rights office, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on Tuesday.
The Emergency Room of a Swedish hospital was closed down Friday morning after a patient recently returned from Africa arrived vomiting blood, a possible symptom of the deadly and contagious Ebola virus.
Contents: Burundi’s president Nkurunziza says Rwanda is no longer a partner but an enemy; Burundi orders the UN to close its human rights office in Burundi; Fears grow of a new Hutu-Tutsi war
Contents: DR Congo’s Joseph Kabila attacks Catholic Church opposition violently; Burundi’s Nkurunziza uses violence on opposition to his May 17 referendum
Contents: Burundi’s Hutu ‘eternal supreme guide’ Nkurunziza to remain in power eternally; Reports of Trump-Kim meeting in Finland unconfirmed so far; Finland is the happiest country in the world, Burundi the unhappiest
Contents: Thousands of DR Congo refugees pour into Uganda to escape tribal violence; Massive 1998-2003 war between Hema and Lendu tribes has continued violence today
Contents: Syria’s Bashar al-Assad targets civilians and hospitals in never-ending war of extermination; Russia’s ‘de-escalation zones’ turn into total farce
Contents: Cambodia dissolves the opposition political party so that Hun Sen can be reelected unopposed; Comparing Awakening Eras in Cambodia, Syria, Zimbabwe and other countries
Contents: Deadly violence increases in English-speaking regions of Cameroon; Cameroon’s 84-year-old president Paul Biya exhibits same violence as other African leaders
Contents: Violence in Nigeria grows over clashes between herders and farmers; Oklahoma! – The farmer and the cowboy should be friends
Contents: Burundi’s Hutu government leaves International Criminal Court to avoid war crimes charges; Burundi to amend constitution to let Nkurunziza hold power until 2034
Contents: Uganda lawmakers throw fists and chairs at each other over Museveni’s power grab; Uganda follows a familiar pattern of violence for many African countries; Thailand’s Yingluck Shinawatra sentenced in absentia to five years in jail
Contents: UN: Burundi’s Hutu government attacks on Tutsis are crimes against humanity; Violence by the Imbonerakure, Nkurunziza’s ‘visionary’ youth wing
Contents: Six Red Cross workers and 30 civilians killed in Central African Republic massacre; UN Human Rights chief warns of ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Central African Republic
Six teenagers who were members of an African robotics team competing in Washington, D.C. this week disappeared, with two of the teens spotted crossing the Canadian border, police said.
Contents: Eritrean government laughably uses Orthodox Christian Patriarch as show prop; Eritrea’s Christian crackdown centers on Medhane Alem Orthodox Church; The violence of generational Awakening eras
The United Nations Human Rights Commission has expressed concerns about a video that captures members of a pro-government youth militia in Burundi singing about raping their adversaries.
Contents: Pope Francis apologizes for Catholic Church’s role in 1994 Rwanda genocide; A century of genocides
Contents: Herders invade ranches in Kenya, ambush and kill British ranch owner; The ranchers (farmers) versus the pastoralists (herders)
Contents: Central African Republic war morphs from religious to ethnic war; United Nations peacekeeping force MINUSCA uses airstrikes to stop bloodbath in Bambari
Contents: The Gambia’s leader, refusing to step down, declares state of emergency; Burundi’s leader, refusing to step down, withdraws peacekeeping troops fighting al-Shabaab in Somalia
Contents: The Gambia’s president prepares for war with Senegal on January 19; Congo’s president Joseph Kabila refuses to step down after losing election
Contents: Hong Kong legislature in chaos, under threat of intervention by mainland China; Sudan follows Uganda, Namibia in cutting ties with North Korea
Contents: Spain blocks Russia fleet refueling stop over planned bombing in Aleppo Syria; The Gambia follows Burundi and S. Africa in leaving the International Criminal Court
Contents: South Africa’s withdrawal throws future of International Criminal Court into doubt; Is the ICC racially biased against Africans?; The fallacy of prosecuting war crimes
Contents: UN report on Burundi documents massive human rights violations; Burundi lawmakers vote to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Contents: Kyrgyzstan’s World Nomad Games commemorate lifestyle of Genghis Khan; Syria’s civilians fear worse violence from US-Russia ‘ceasefire’ agreement; Generational theory: Bashar al-Assad’s miscalculation
Contents: Violence resurges in Central African Republic’s crisis civil war; In Darfur Sudan, genocidal violence continues after 13 years of civil war; European Union will pay Sudan’s militias to block migration to Europe
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has demanded an investigation into reports from the African nation of Burundi of the discovery of mass graves with hundreds of bodies and soldiers gang-raping women.
Contents: Iran releases American sailors as end of sanctions approaches; Report: Sri Lankan government repeatedly torturing and raping Tamils; Sri Lanka joining the torture club, with Syria, Burundi, Zimbabwe
Contents: Taiwan may reverse South China Sea policy and oppose China; Burundi calls planned African Union peacekeeping force ‘an attack’
Generational Dynamics, Burundi, Bujumbura, Pierre Nkurunziza, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, China, South China Sea, Singapore, P8 Poseidon spy plane, Ash Carter, Japan, Shinzo Abe, India Narendra Modi
Contents: Burundi’s Nkurunziza continues down Mugabe – Assad path of genocide; EU peace talks collapses on Burundi’s failure to commit to human rights
