Intensive African news often remains out of the media spotlight. A continent in which Spain Even though a distance separates us, we share borders 10 meters fence long and complicated ignorance And indifference It is difficult to calculate. News often stays with people. migrationThose who managed to reach the shores of Spain or Ceuta And Melilla It is included in the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But there are also people who die doing it. They are children of a family continentthe second most populous population in the world plunder of natural resources, drought And climate change or its effects conflictsA situation that lasts indefinitely in most cases, forcing the population to seek refuge.
The eight-month-long war in Sudan has resulted in the displacement of five and a half million people within the country. The majority are people living in the capital. Khartoumor in the region darfurAs the United Nations explains. But there are also one and a half million people who have had to cross their country’s borders to seek refuge in Chad, South Sudan or Chad. Sweetcorn. This conflict broke out in April when negotiations for the new transitional government addressed Army reform, causing tensions between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. Since that time 12,000 people died.
Amnesty Internationalalong with other international organizations, condemned some incidents on both sides. war crimes “generalized.” And many UN agencies “the coming famine“. In recent days, fighting has intensified in the city of Wad Madani, the country’s second largest city. “It is an atmosphere of fear and panic, thousands of people have fled the city in recent days,” explains Tigere, regional director of Amnesty International in Chagutah. This city is where the fighting began It has served as a shelter for half a million people since day one and was also one of the points where humanitarian aid was managed.
seek shelter
Although the war has intensified in 2023, conflicts continue in this country, especially in the region. darfur And South Sudanforced many families to take shelter Chad. A point where especially young people intersect Niger to reach Libya And Algeria as a previous step in trying to cross the street Europe. It is a difficult and risky road, it is unknown how many people died trying to cross it. SaharaHowever, international organizations state that these may happen twice as many as died on the boat. A desert that turned into a cemetery also turned into an informative black hole.
Policies of externalizing European borders Immigration routes have become more complex as many countries have tightened their laws and NigerFor example, you can go to jail for transporting an immigrant in your car or renting a room to him. Something that forces many people to take more risks on their migration route. This law has now remained a dead text since the Niger regime decided to repeal it.
in countries North Africans Conditions for immigrants have worsened shoots They have become our daily bread. Inside Tunisia also increased racismProvoked by the president against the sub-Saharan people, authorities deported more than 1,200 of them to the desert Libyan border over the summer without water or food. Openly, Libya It has become one of the main departure points for boats in the central Mediterranean, but it is also a hell for migrants, as criminal groups and mafias kidnap them, exploit them and even sell them into slavery. organizations.
instability
Libya is governed by various groups that control parts of the region, and conflicts occur from time to time. After several attempts at celebration electionsThe elections still don’t seem valid. Since Arabian springsThe country is experiencing a spiral of instability and violence fueled by international forces that feed one of the two sides for their own interests. This instability shook other countries on the continent, especially beach.
Inside Financial, Burkina FasoNiger, Chad, Guinea and Gabonproduced blows In the last three years it has been mostly carried out by the military and with the promise of transition, but for now they remain in power. As in Mali, one of the main arguments of these coup plotters was insecurity. But they also stated that France and other Western countries are responsible. Gradually, French troops leave the area: After closing their operations in Mali, they also left Niger following a diplomatic dispute with the army that carried out the coup.
New regime in Mali opens doors to Russian mercenaries of the group WagnerCurrently operating in support of the Armed Forces in the country. There has been a retreat in recent months. UN blue helmets Displaced people in Mali. Something that has increased tensions in the north and reignited clashes between the Government and rebel groups in Bamako. tuareg. Especially since the Army was occupying bases left by UN troops. A flammable cocktail to which we must add the criminal and terrorist groups operating in the region. Islamic State And Al Qaeda On African soil.
The effects of drought and climate change are also increase in internal displacementas well as tensions between communities. According to a study by the Foundation for Ecology and Development, “Newborns born in 2020 in Sub-Saharan Africa will face 2.6 times worse harvests in their lifetime than a person born in 1960. In North Africa, this rate is 4 times worse.” “It goes up to 4 floors.” (ECODES). All organizations working on this issue point out that climate migrations will leave their mark future The continent, as it would be in many other parts of the planet. Resources are the source of social and political unrest. Inside SenegalOne of the factors that pushes the population to take up canoeing is “spoil“Marine resources inhabited by many fishing populations, due to overfishing by international vessels, especially in Senegalese waters, as condemned by many NGOs and associations in recent years.