George Fominyen
George Fominyen is AlertNet's humanitarian affairs correspondent for West and Central Africa, based in Dakar. He is also West Africa coordinator for Thomson Reuters Foundation's Emergency Information Service.
ICRC suspends operations in Chad after kidnap of French worker
Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) suspended its field operations in eastern Chad on Tuesday after bandits kidnapped a French staff member. The ICRC has 315 staff -- including 57 expatriates -- working in Chad and is one of the biggest aid operations in the country, particularly in the volatile east where government forces have clashed with rebels since 2006. ...
Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) suspended its field operations in eastern Chad on Tuesday after bandits kidnapped a French staff member. The ICRC has 315 staff -- including 57 expatriates -- working in Chad and is one of the biggest aid operations in the country, particularly in the volatile east where government forces have clashed with rebels since 2006. ...
Q+A Humanitarian challenges of eastern Congo's other war
Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet)-Ugandan rebels have repeatedly attacked civilian populations in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of a joint Ugandan-Congolese military operation against them almost a year ago.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Haut Uele and Bas Uele districts have fled their homes fearing brutal reprisals from Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas, and insecurity is making it difficult for aid groups to reach those in need.
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Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet)-Ugandan rebels have repeatedly attacked civilian populations in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the start of a joint Ugandan-Congolese military operation against them almost a year ago.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Haut Uele and Bas Uele districts have fled their homes fearing brutal reprisals from Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas, and insecurity is making it difficult for aid groups to reach those in need.
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UN must cease all support for Congolese army - rights' group
Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet) - The United Nations must cease all support for the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch has said, after the U.N. announced it would cut operational assistance to certain Congolese army units that it believes killed 62 civilians.
But a local Congolese women's rights group has warned that a complete withdrawal of U.N. support for President Joseph Kabila's forces would lead to more atrocities against civilians by soldiers and by Rwandan rebels they are fighting.
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Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet) - The United Nations must cease all support for the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch has said, after the U.N. announced it would cut operational assistance to certain Congolese army units that it believes killed 62 civilians.
But a local Congolese women's rights group has warned that a complete withdrawal of U.N. support for President Joseph Kabila's forces would lead to more atrocities against civilians by soldiers and by Rwandan rebels they are fighting.
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All aid workers may be required to use an armed guard after murder -U.N.
Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet) - Armed escorts may become obligatory for relief agencies working with the U.N. in eastern Chad after bandits killed an aid worker at the weekend, a U.N. refugee agency official has said. U.N. staff are already obliged to travel with armed escorts but their partners -- both local and international -- are not and most humanitarian organisations prefer not to use guards in order to maintain a sense of neutrality. ...
Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet) - Armed escorts may become obligatory for relief agencies working with the U.N. in eastern Chad after bandits killed an aid worker at the weekend, a U.N. refugee agency official has said. U.N. staff are already obliged to travel with armed escorts but their partners -- both local and international -- are not and most humanitarian organisations prefer not to use guards in order to maintain a sense of neutrality. ...
Poverty makes food insecurity worse in West Africa
Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet) - People dying because of a lack of water and failing crops, emaciated livestock, drought ravaging whole regions...you probably think of East Africa when you read this. West Africa, however, is just as vulnerable to food insecurity but a key difference between the west and the east of the continent is that in West Africa it is not induced by prolonged droughts, conflict and displacement but mainly by chronic poverty, analysts say. ...
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Author: George Fominyen
DAKAR (AlertNet) - People dying because of a lack of water and failing crops, emaciated livestock, drought ravaging whole regions...you probably think of East Africa when you read this. West Africa, however, is just as vulnerable to food insecurity but a key difference between the west and the east of the continent is that in West Africa it is not induced by prolonged droughts, conflict and displacement but mainly by chronic poverty, analysts say. ...
