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Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto was set for a private trip from Kenya to Uganda, the second time in a month, but was stopped by the immigration officers at the airport on Monday. Local media reported that immigration officials insisted that Ruto had to get clearance from the head of state, Uhuru Kenyatta. Ruto was traveling alongside the other three… Read More

Libya called Monday on people to come forward to be vaccinated after it received two million doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm, with more on the way. “We call on all our fellow citizens to be vaccinated,” Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah told reporters at Mitiga airport near Tripoli after the shipment arrived. Adding to its security and political problems, the… Read More

A resurgence of coronavirus cases in West Africa is hitting the region hard, inundating cemeteries where funeral numbers are rising and hospitals where beds are becoming scarce. Those visible shifts are also pushing a reluctant population to seek out the vaccines in larger numbers at a time when shipments of doses are arriving from multiple sources after nearly grinding to… Read More

Last updated: 9 hours ago Another 26 people were rescued from a sinking boat on the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, following a weekend of operations in what is the busiest period for migrant crossing. On Monday, German charity Sea Watch shared a series of images of its personnel distributing life jackets and helping migrants off a boat in distress. It… Read More

In Tunisia, the Covid-19 vaccination is picking up pace given the high number of cases in the north African country. The country, which has been struggling to contain its outbreak of Delta variant, hopes to vaccinate half of its population by mid-October. Tunisians are now optimistic about the vaccine and hope the country reaches its target. “It was not an… Read More

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Monday called for 110 detainees to be released, describing them as political prisoners. “We are fighting to get them out of there,” he told around 100 wives of the prisoners whom he met in the economic capital Abidjan. “The current goal of my programme is to fight for the release of all prisoners… Read More

South Sudan on Monday swore in hundreds of lawmakers to a newly created national parliament, a long-overdue condition of a fragile peace deal that ended civil war in the young country. In all, 588 MPs — a mix of delegates from the ruling party and former rebel factions who signed the truce — took the oath of office at a… Read More

Soufiane el-Bakkali of Morocco won the 3,000-meter steeplechase to end more than 40 years of Kenyan Olympic dominance. El-Bakkali won in 8 minutes, 8.90 seconds on a wet track at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. He finished well clear of Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia, who took the silver. Benjamin Kigen claimed bronze for Kenya after Ethiopia’s Getnet Wale, who was… Read More

At least 249 rhinos were killed the first six months of this year in South Africa, partly pushed by the easing of lockdown curbs that increased movement of poachers, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment said in a statement. South Africa is home to nearly 80 percent of the world’s rhinos but their horns are prized in traditional… Read More

Awoken by gunshots in the middle of the night, residents of Solhan were shocked by who they saw among the attackers in the town in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region: children. About 160 people were killed in June in the deadliest assault since the once peaceful West African nation was overrun by fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State about… Read More