As Africa rushes to keep her citizens out of dangers looming in Ukraine.
( I strongly believe those who stay back will be rewarded greatly, later )

Ghanaian officials said 17 students were the first batch of over 500 students expected to be brought home.

The evacuated students arrived home on Tuesday as African governments stepped up efforts to extract stranded citizens following the Russian invasion.

“Please, please, please, we want to go back home as soon as possible”

Mostafa Esmail, an Egyptian student in Ukraine says he and thousands of international students are unable to leave the country.

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New batch of 25 Egyptian students left Ukraine’s Dnipro peacefully

CAIRO – 3 March 2022: A new batch of 25 Egyptian students who stranded in the eastern Ukrainian Dnipro was evacuated and peacefully arrived to the Hungarian capital, Budapest, said Vice President of the Egyptian community in Ukraine Ahmed Mohamed Al-Saeed on Thursday.

Russia-Ukraine war: Buhari approves $8.5m for evacuation of Nigerians

Nigeria lawmakers touched ground in Romania

He said the evacuees include 940 from Romania, 150 from Slovakia and 350 from Poland who have registered to leave.

On the amount approved, Dada explained that “The ministry of humanitarian affairs wrote a memo to the president seeking funding to enable us to conduct this exercise. The memo was to the tune of $8.5m which Mr. President has graciously approved. That provision entails an arrangement to evacuate no less than 5,000 Nigerians.

So African suddenly became a safe heaven

South Africans fleeing Ukraine encounter physical threats, racism and confusing information

“We stopped in Kyiv, I think for maybe five hours, because they weren’t certain of the situation going further,” said Muyimane. “So, I think they got a notification that, ‘Okay, guys, stop the train, switch off the lights. Make sure that everybody’s quiet, close all the windows.’ ”

It was hot in the darkened interior of the train, the close-packed passengers attempting to sleep the wait away. Muyimane recalled trying to assist with a crying baby.

South Africa’s ambassador to Ukraine says he had to leave the capital, Kyiv, as an armoured Russian convoy is heading to the city.

Andre Groenewald said explosions could be heard in the distance as he packed the car to leave on Wednesday morning.

He is now travelling south in a convoy of two vehicles with his wife, three children and the last remaining embassy staff towards Romania, Moldova or Hungary.

Africa my Africa
Plagued by bad leadership at all levels
Hunted by inadequate infrastructure
Driven to the fringes of extinction by hunger, poverty, malnutrition and disease
Blessed with the most natural resources yet cursed by the atrocities of its bad leaders
A land where the cry of its inhabitants wets the ground daily
A place that consumes its young
where the youth groan under the tyranny of the old
Where the young never grow to take their place as leaders
A place where tomorrow is not assured
Africa, a land with so much yet yielding little for its poor
I dream of the day Africa will take her place in the world.

(February 24, 2022)

Libya calls on its citizens in Ukraine not to leave their homes, condemns Russian attack

The Libyan embassy in Ukraine called Thursday on citizens residing there to be careful and not to leave homes unless necessary.

The Embassy advised those residing in areas of tension to move away to safer areas, according to a statement it published on Facebook.

Libyan Foreign Minister, Najla Elmangoush, condemned Russian military attack on Ukraine, renewing the call for calm and retreat.

3 March
Rival Libyan PM sworn in as tensions mount

A rival government in Libya has been sworn in as a showdown with the existing administration seems set to intensify.

Fathi Bashaga took the oath of office as prime minister in the eastern city of Tobruk, where Libya's parliament elected him last month.

Incumbent Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah has said that he will not step down.

A UN-backed roadmap to try to end the rift between rival factions in Libya has been in doubt since scheduled elections failed to go ahead in December.

AU ‘disturbed’ by reports Africans stopped from escaping Ukraine

In a statement late Monday, the pan-African body said: “[A]ll people have the right to cross international borders during conflict, and as such, should enjoy the same rights to cross to safety from the conflict in Ukraine, notwithstanding their nationality or racial identity.”

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