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Last updated: 4 hours ago Protesters clashed with police in Paris on Saturday at a rally against a bill requiring everyone to have a special virus pass to enter restaurants and other venues and mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all health care workers. Legislators in France’s Senate are debating the bill Saturday after the lower house of parliament approved it Friday.… Read More

Jemma Nunu Kumba, the incumbent secretary-general of the ruling party, will become the first woman to preside over the parliament of South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, which gained its independence ten years ago. She will be responsible for the implementation of the peace agreement. President Salva Kiir, who is also chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), announced… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago The Corfo Lagoon in Patagonia, southern Argentina, has turned pink after waste from fishing companies was dumped in its waters, sparking alarm among local residents and authorities. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

Malian investigators have ruled out terrorism as a motivation in the attempted stabbing attack on the head of the country’s ruling junta Colonel Assimi Goita, French broadcaster RFI reported on Saturday. Citing a source close to the probe, RFI reported that the suspect had been trained to handle weapons and that he was not acting alone. Goita was attacked during… Read More

The ravine stretches several kilometres. Years of soil erosion have caused devastation in the Republic of Congo’s port city of Pointe-Noire. What started as gullies has now grown into ravines, swallowing more homes and farmland every year. You see this house? That’s where we used to live but we lost everything,” said Ngombi Jacque, pointing to the spot where his… Read More

Sierra Leonean lawmakers voted to abolish the death penalty Friday, becoming the latest African country to move toward banning capital punishment. A majority of MPs voted in favor of an amendment abolishing the death penalty, according to an AFP journalist who was present in the chamber. Capital punishment will be replaced with life imprisonment or a minimum 30-year jail term… Read More

The body of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was returned to his hometown Friday for a private funeral amid heavy security following violent protests and fears of political volatility in the Caribbean nation Moïse’s body arrived shortly after dawn at his family’s seaside property where the funeral is being held. Six officials carried the brown casket up a stage where… Read More

The final leg of what started out has an Olympic dream ended on Friday for Ugandan Athlete Julius Ssekitoleko as he returned home. The 20-year-old weightlifter fled during pre-Olympics training in western Japan last week leaving behind a note saying he didn’t want to return to his country. Ssekitoleko had wanted to stay in Japan and work, officials said. He… Read More

Thousands of Eritrean refugees are increasingly caught in the middle of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where witnesses and U.N. officials say forces have attacked their camps, abducted or killed some of the residents, and stolen their food and possessions. The refugees are among the most vulnerable groups in the Tigray conflict, which broke out in November between the… Read More

A Nigerian court on Friday jailed 10 pirates for 12 years each over the hijacking of a merchant vessel last year, the navy said, in the second such trial under a new anti-piracy law. The pirates, all of them Nigerian, were convicted of hijacking the Chinese merchant ship FV Hailufeng II in the Gulf of Guinea in 2020. Kidnap attacks… Read More