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All 93 members of Chad’s transitional parliament were installed on Tuesday. The deputies were designated at the end of September by junta leader, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, son of the late president Idriss Déby Itno. Haroun Kabadi, who was president of the National Assembly at the time of the death of President Idriss Déby Itno, was elected by acclamation but… Read More

Morocco launched a campaign this week aimed at providing a third dose of anti covid vaccine to people who have received at least two doses of the vaccine six months ago. Vulnerable people and frontline health workers make up the largest group that flocked to the kingdom’s vaccination centres from Monday. With a population of 36 million, 23 million have… Read More

A major construction and building trade fair opened Tuesday in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. For three days, some 500 national and international exhibitors will display their products as the country embarks on a massive rebuilding drive. Khaled al-Bedawi is an employee at a real estate investment company and believes it’s time to turn the page. “We are entering the stage… Read More

Last updated: 3 hours ago The administration of the 3rd dose will take place in the vaccination centers, regardless of address. The people concerned by this operation will receive an SMS from 1717. The Ministry had announced in a previous press release published on Friday, October 1 the official administration of this 3rd injection. This decision follows the recommendations of… Read More

Suspected jihadists killed 14 soldiers in an attack in northern Burkina Faso on Monday, the defence ministry said, in the latest bloodshed to hit the region plagued by Islamist violence. “The military detachment of Yirgou” in the Centre-Nord region’s Barsalogho department was “the target of a terrorist attack” around 0500 GMT on Monday, junior defence minister General Aime Barthelemy Simpore… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Coca growers clashed with police in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, on Monday, the latest in a series of violent confrontations that have lasted for nearly a fortnight. The police dispersed the farmers by firing tear gas grenades after the demonstrators threw firecrackers highly explosive. Several coca growers’ unions have been fighting for months over… Read More

Ethiopian troops and a militia in the country’s Amhara region have been mobilizing following a series of attacks by Tigray forces, according to British broadcaster Sky News. The war that began last November was confined at first to Ethiopia’s sealed-off northern Tigray region. Accounts of atrocities often emerged long after they occurred: Tigrayans described gang-rapes, massacres and forced starvation by… Read More

Meet one of the future superstars of the sport of basketball – 17-year-old French sensation Victor Wembanyama. Wembanyama said he has never felt the “pressure” of excelling on the biggest stage in the premier class of basketball which he is surely destined for – the NBA (National Basketball Association). “It is not easy every day being different from everyone. But… Read More

At the first sound of gunfire, Lelise Abdissa leapt into a ditch for cover, only to be crushed by other panicked revellers as Ethiopian troops clashed with protesters during a religious festival five years ago. She awoke hours later in a hospital with a broken arm, but she was lucky: Scores of people died in the October 2016 stampede that… Read More

A Washington DC-based network of reporters and media organizations known as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Sunday released financial documents that showed a linkage between world leaders and secret stores of wealth. The documents derive information from 91 countries and feature 35 current and former national leaders as well as 330 politicians. Among the leaders named in the… Read More