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Last updated: 40 minutes ago Syrian children draw and write messages on a roll of paper at an event organized by the NGO Shafak. A few days later, on the International Day of Peace, they displayed their work in a camp for displaced people in the villages of Killi and Maaret Misreen, in Idlib province, northwestern Syria. More about Sourced… Read More

Tunisians reacted on Tuesday after the country’s president announced plans to draft a new electoral code and appoint a transitional leadership – and to hang on to the exceptional powers that he seized in July, throwing the country’s young democracy into question. In a speech Monday night, President Kais Saied had promised that the new initiatives would respect Tunisians’ hard-fought… Read More

Following the sudden death of 63 African penguins inside the Boulders beach colony near Simonstown, South Africa, veterinarians have discovered the cause to be a freak bee attack. The deaths occurred suddenly sometime between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Officials, expert advisors and veterinarians from South African National Parks (SANParks), the City of Cape Town and penguin experts from the… Read More

The head of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council called for unity on Tuesday after a reported failed coup attempt by a group of soldiers. General Abdel-Fattah Burhan made the plea during a visit to a military base in Khartoum. “We will not hand over Sudan to an unknown party, we will not hand over Sudan to unknown forces. We want to hand… Read More

In Ivory Coast, the fight for women’s rights is gaining ground. For several weeks, testimonies of women who were victims of assault or rape have been on the rise. A women’s rights group, the Ivorian Women’s Defence League, is now calling for a change in Ivory Coast. “There are many victims who come to us to file complaints. There are… Read More

The arrest and conviction of Paul Rusesabagina, the man who inspired the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’ has drawn mixed reactions as some analysts believe he was responsible for all the acts he was charged against. Rusesabagina, who remains in custody, has asserted that his arrest was in response to his criticism of longtime Rwandan President Paul Kagame over alleged human rights… Read More

Burundi on Tuesday vowed a thorough investigation into a series of deadly “terrorist” grenade blasts that hit the economic capital Bujumbura. The attacks late on Monday followed a deadly grenade explosion in a bar in the capital Gitega on Sunday and a series of mortar shells fired on Burundi’s international airport on Saturday night. The interior ministry said in a… Read More

Sudanese authorities reported a coup attempt on Tuesday by a group of soldiers but said the attempt failed and that the country’s ruling council and military remain in control. The development underscored the fragility of Sudan’s path to democracy, more than two years after the military’s overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir amid a public uprising against his three-decade rule.… Read More

In the alleyways of a Korogocho slum in Kenya, 15 women, many of them grandmothers, have enrolled in twice-a-week taekwondo classes at a run-down community centre. At the Korogocho community hall, women clad in headscarves and long skirts are punching, with bare knuckles, sacks full of old clothes produced as makeshift punching bags. One after the other, the women are… Read More

Khartoum announced Tuesday that it had “failed” a coup attempt involving military officials and civilians linked to the regime of autocrat Omar al-Bashir, ousted from power two years ago by a popular revolt. “A failed coup attempt, led by a group of armed forces officers and civilians from the former regime (…) was contained at dawn,” Information Minister Hamza Baloul… Read More