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Last updated: 4 hours ago Flames racing through rugged terrain in Northern California destroyed multiple homes Saturday as the state’s largest wildfire intensified and numerous other blazes battered the US West. The Dixie fire, which started July 14, had already leveled over a dozen houses and other structures when it tore through the tiny community of Indian Falls after dark.… Read More

It’s a busy time for tourism operators in Tunisia despite a surge in virus infection, as tourists flock into this North African nation even as medics battle the coronavirus. According to AFP data, 1.4 deaths per 100,000 residents have been recorded per day in the last week. At Tunisia’s Mediterranean resort of Sousse, tourists are not perturbed. “We are with… Read More

The large white building, in the suburbs of Minneapolis in the north of the United States, could look like an abandoned shopping mall or an office building: welcome to Paisley Park, Prince’s home and music studio, now transformed into a museum. Outside, only a large purple statue of the “Love symbol” reminds the visitor that the place, a complex of… Read More

Equatorial Guinea has demanded the lifting of “unilateral and illegal” sanctions imposed for corruption by the United Kingdom against the son of the president of this Central African country, in a statement released Saturday by the Equatorial Guinean authorities. Teodorin Obiang Mangue, vice-president of Equatorial Guinea and son of the president, was sanctioned on Thursday by London for the “misappropriation… Read More

The start of the elections in Somalia, scheduled for Sunday and at the center of a political crisis that has agitated the country for months, has been delayed, said official sources interviewed by AFP. The volatile Horn of Africa country was due to begin a long election cycle on Sunday, starting with the Senate election and ending on October 10… Read More

People lined up outside a Covid-19 vaccination center in Tripoli as cases of the disease began to climb in the country. Libya kicked off its vaccination campaign in April after delays caused by the presence of rival administrations. With neighboring Tunisia seeing infections that have caused the collapse of its health system, concern has grown in Libya. “Today we came… Read More

Huila Province, Southern Angola. Months of no rain have sucked life out of the vast region and brought communities to near starvation. People have to trek several kilometers to find water or fruits, for which they have to compete with wildlife. Angola’s government recently started building three water projects in the provinces of Cunene and Huila. The water ministry said… Read More

Tunisian on Friday took delivery of more than a million doses of covid-19 vaccines from France. At the port of Rades, a southern suburb of Tunis, the French navy also delivered three tanks filled with liquefied oxygen. In this north African nation, medics are currently struggling to deal with rise in the number of infections. French Secretary of State, Jean-Baptiste… Read More

At least 800 people in Uganda received fake Covid-19 vaccines last month from unapproved people as the country is battling a surge in cases from the ongoing fourth wave. The counterfeit jabs were administered over May and June during a deadly surge of the coronavirus in the East African nation, when new infections soared to record highs of about 1,700… Read More

Charity Doctors without Borders said Friday it was suspending operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) after its staff came under attack by armed groups. The organization accuses fighters of attacks on health workers and facilities. In June, a convoy transporting patients to MSF’s hospital in Batangafo was caught in an ambush by armed men, leaving a patient’s caretaker dead.… Read More