MOGADISHU, Somalia — Heavy fighting has broken out in a Somali town near the Kenyan border between Somali forces and those from the state of Jubbaland as Somalia’s election troubles spill over into violence. Somalia’s information ministry in a statement early Monday accused Kenya-funded rebels of crossing into the town of Bulo Hawo and attacking…
ICC arrests alleged commander of Seleka militia on charges of war crimes committed during violence in Bangui in 2013. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken into custody a former Central African Republic (CAR) militia commander suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a statement on Sunday, the court said authorities in CAR…
Climate activists in South Africa have welcomed the U.S President Joe Biden’s move to rejoin the Paris climate accord. This comes more than three years after former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S out of the agreement. Hours after his inauguration on Wednesday, Biden signed an executive order to begin the process of getting the…
The United Nations Under-Secretary General has insisted on the need to adapt, than cut down French troops in the Sahel. Speaking to AFP in Bamako, Mali, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said “It’s not a question of numbers, it’s not a question of more or less, it’s a question of permanent adaptation, and it’s a work in progress.”…
Africa has recorded nearly 82,000 deaths due to the coronavirus in its second wave, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The figure is higher than when the first wave of the virus hit the continent in 2020. According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent has recorded around 3.3 million covid-19…
Security forces in Mali dispersed a protest in Bamako Wednesday as they fired tear gas at dozens of protesters during an unauthorized march against the French military’s role in the country. Earlier, Bamako’s city hall had banned the protest against the French military, citing covid-19 restrictions. Protesters on motorbike convoys managed their way through police…
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The Senate has frowned at the Ministry of Petroleum Resources for spending, without due process, N98.4 million to supposedly print leaflets. The leaflets were said to have been printed as part of an awareness campaign programme for the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). President Muhamamdu Buhari is the sudstantive minister of Petroleum Resources ministry, a portfolio he has…
Clashes erupted in Tunisia for a fourth consecutive evening on Sunday. In Ettadhamen, a neighbourhood close to the capital Tunis, the youth hurled rocks at riot police, who responded with teargas Dozens in the capital and other cities have been arrested during the nationwide violent demonstrations which has seen shops and cars smashed and looted.…
At least 46 civilians are reported to have been killed in an attack by suspected rebel fighters on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a senior provincial official said on Thursday. Local security forces have been dispatched to the village in Irumu territory to investigate, provincial Interior Minister Adjio Gidi said…