
Elections in 2021 with Faustin-Archange Touadéra being re-elected as presidentĪs of July 2021 the government controls more territory than at any point since the war began. Ex-president François Bozizé merges all rebel groups and forms the Coalition of Patriots for Change. Fighting between Ex-Séléka factions FPRC and UPC. De facto split between ex-Séléka factions controlled north and east and Anti-balaka controlled south and west with a Séléka faction declaring the Republic of Logone. Elections conducted in 2016 with Faustin-Archange Touadéra becoming the president. President Michel Djotodia resigns amid heavy international pressure. Low-level fighting between Ex-Séléka factions and Anti-balaka militias. In that year some 8.8 million deaths were registered, down from 9. The UN estimated the continent’s 2016 population at close to 1.2 billion. To better understand the leading causes of death in Africa, we first need to put the numbers in context. President Michel Djotodia abolishes Séléka This factsheet looks at the leading causes of death in Africa in 2016.
Michel Djotodia, the leader of Séléka, becomes president.Séléka rebel coalition takes power from François Bozizé.In the whole of Africa, 282 million people were experiencing hunger, more than double the proportion of any other region in the world. As of 2020, more than one-third of the continent’s population was undernourished. Neonatal conditions accounted for 11.3 percent of all deaths in Africa that year, followed by lower respiratory.
(Possible spillover into East Region, Cameroon) Conflict, drought, and economic woes triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic are reversing years of progress. Neonatal conditions were the leading cause of death in Africa in 2019.