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Food insecurity has reached 1.3 million in Somalia

The number of people suffering from severe food insecurity has reached 1.3 million in Somalia, and the state of food insecurity is due to the spread of desert locusts, which is leading to crop erosion, as well as the threat of rangelands, floods and reduced rainfall.

#Covid19 has had a significant impact on food security in #Somalia through high prices of the country’s main food commodities due to the demand for storage due to virus panic. 2.7 million people cannot meet their daily food needs are in Somalia and they need urgent #humanitarian assistance, with more than half a million people on the brink of famine.

In the light of these obstacles, NGO Major for Africa express its worries about these low rates of food insecurity in Somalia, and recommend that the government has to have an urgent plan to end hunger in the country and achieve SDG 2.

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Sudan suffers from high rates of extreme poverty

Sudan faced many economic challenges after the secession of South Sudan in 2011. It lost 75% of its oil resources, which is 95% of exports and 68% of revenues, and in the midst of that, Sudan developed a number of policies and programs to eradicate poverty, topped by the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy. However, no tangible results have been achieved. Statistics on poverty indicators conflicted between 36.1% and 77% of the population.

Amidst the pandemic in 2020, the rates of extreme poverty in Sudan increased in conjunction with the factors mentioned, the percentage of poor have risen at $1.90 (the international average) to 24.1% in 2020 after it was 17.1% in 2019, and this is a significant rate that predicts the magnitude of the disaster facing Sudan.

In this context, NGOs Major Group for Africa expresses its concern about the increasing numbers of poverty in the country and recommends the government in Sudan to develop social protection programs and include the largest number of groups suffering or expected to suffer from poverty, in order to provide basic services to the largest number of people.

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40,000 cases of child pregnancies during Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda

#ChildMarriage is carried out below the age of 18 years, even before the girl is physically and psychologically ready to shoulder the responsibilities of marriage and childbearing.
in #Uganda, out of 135 districts, 5 districts have over 40,000 cases of pregnancies.

Girls married as children in Uganda are more likely to drop out of school and become pregnant as teenagers. Also, harmful practices rob girls of their childhood in Uganda, deny them the chance to determine their own future, and threaten the well-being of individuals, families, and societies. which violates #SDG5 of the 2030 global agenda.

In this context, NGO Major Group – Africa expresses its concern about the high rates of child marriage in Uganda. Also recommends Uganda parliament enact and enforce the legal prohibition of harmful practices including child marriage under 18. Maat also recommends the government take additional measures to modify the social and cultural patterns to achieve the elimination of customary practices.

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Eritrea suffers on the path to achieving peace and justice

The crime rate in Eritrea reaches 36.7%. The percentage of violence, assault, and armed robbery also is 15.38%. regarding the Peace Index in Eritrea, it ranked 136th out of 163 countries in the Global Peace Index in 2021 and 2020, which reflects the poor security situation in #Eritrea and the absence of any positive progress during the year.

As for corruption and bribery, the percentage of corruption and bribery is 36.54%, and Eritrea ranked 160th in terms of public sector corruption out of 180 countries.

In this context; NGO Major Group – Africa expresses its concern about the low levels of security and the high crime rates in Eritrea and recommends that the Eritrean government must work on achieving the goal 16 of #SDGs Agenda.

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7000 Schools Went out of Service after the Tigray War and More is Yet to Come

7000 schools got destroyed in Tigray and nothing but shattered dreams are in wait for millions of Ethiopian children, in light of the ongoing escalation of the conflict between the parties to the Ethiopian war, which had taken a heavy toll on all sectors of development in Ethiopia. Education was one of the sectors worst affected by was.

According to statistics, the number of schools that were destroyed during the Ethiopian war exceeds 7000, while 1.42 million students were deprived of their opportunity to education.

In the war-torn Tigray, students’ ability to receive education has become a luxury, in light of the country’s deteriorating human rights conditions, and the imminent famine.

The developmental efforts that have been made over decades to provide better education for Ethiopians, in line with SDG 4, have become critically threatened, in light of the Ethiopian Air Force’s continuous targeting of civilian objects, including educational buildings.

Amidst this, NGO Major Group- Africa stresses the need to respect the rules of international humanitarian law, according to which schools and educational institutions are considered civilian objects that must be protected from deliberate attacks, except in the case that they are being used by the warring parties for military purposes.

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Egypt is Moving Foreword in Improving Life on Land

Egypt leads the countries of North Africa in achieving SDG 15 which is about life on land. Egypt participated in Africa’s Great Green Wall project to combat desertification in 2019, and launched the project to transform Sharm el-Sheikh into a sustainable, green, eco-friendly city, as the first Egyptian, Arab and African city, next to El Alamein city of and the New Administrative Capital, among other positive initiatives launched by Egypt over the past years.

In addition to the foregoing, Egypt has enacted many laws, including the Environmental and Natural Resources Law, ratified the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, headed the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 14) on Biological Diversity in 2018, launched the project to preserve migratory birds in 2018, which won the Global Energy Prize as one of the leading environmental projects in 2020.

NGO Major Group-Africa appreciates the Egyptian efforts to achieve SDG 15 and hopes that these efforts will continue, and recommends other African countries seeking to develop their strategies related to improving life on land, to learn from the Egyptian experience.

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In Sudan, Some Successes are Achieved in the Objectives of the SDG 14 (Life Below Water)

The results of the marine protected areas index improved, which encourages biodiversity. It recorded in its last reading 87.5%, and only 48% in the reading before it, which helps Sudan to protect life underwater.
With regard to the ocean health index, in the last two consecutive readings, it scored 45 degrees, 45.3 degrees, which means that Sudan needs to intensify its efforts with regard to reducing sources of water pollution and avoiding the deposits of loading and unloading of tankers transiting the Red Sea.

Among the Sudanese marine reserves that were established to protect endangered species in Sudan are the Sanganeb Marine National Park, Dungonab Bay, and Mukkawar Island.

In this context, NGO Major Group for Africa appreciates the Sudanese efforts to improve the quality of life underwater by preventing water pollution and jeopardizing marine creatures living in it.

The Sudanese government calls for the creation of a governmental body that will supervise and monitor power plants, refineries, factories, ship maintenance workshops, and fishing boats beside marine areas to prevent dumping pollutants there.

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