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After months of fear in a city occupied by Ethiopian soldiers and those from neighbouring Eritrea who pursued the Tigray regional leaders, crowds of Mekele residents rushed to see thousands of Ethiopian government soldiers paraded by their captors. Scenes of jubilation and determination in the city of Mekele, in video obtained by The Associated Press and smuggled out of Tigray… Read More

South African chemists helping the government’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Monday warned that the unrest gripping the country would slow inoculations in the continent’s worst-hit country by the pandemic. An association representing more than 1,100 pharmacies said the violence had left drugstores “looted and destroyed with millions of rand of much needed medication” lost. With close to 2.2 million detected… Read More

Eid al-Adha is much more than a holiday for Gueureum Yalla. For this sheep breeder, it is also an opportunity to sell his animals, often not affordable for the average Senegalese. It is also a high season for the sheep festival commonly called tabaski in Senegal. “We can’t sell tabaski sheep to those who want to improve their breeds. But… Read More

Zimbabweans in Harare were queuing for kilometres outside one of the capital’s main hospitals in the hope of being vaccinated against COVID-19, but many complained there are no jabs to be had. Andrew Ngwenya and his family travelled about 11 kilometres (7 miles) from their home to Parirenyatwa, a major referral hospital where doses were sometimes available. He said he… Read More

In Burundi a new form of art is spreading among young artists, the slam. On the occasion of the second edition of the Vuga festival in Bujumbura, the capital, artists and fans of this new poetic way of conveying a message, did not miss the call The mobile festival aims to convey a message of peace and social harmony while… Read More

Hundreds of people are now living in a refugee camp organised inside an empty school in the Lithuanian village of Vereniejai. Migrants and refugees from as distant places of the globe as Iraq and Cameroon recounted Sunday how they had paid thousands of dollars to cross borders and faced dangerous terrain and even wildlife to reach Europe. Iraqi migrant Mustafa… Read More

What does it mean to be Nigerian? In a country of 210 million inhabitants with more than 500 native languages and hundreds of ethnicities that was colonised by the Portuguese and the British, identity can be a daunting question. But using the power of social media, two activists have decided to take it on through a forum called The New… Read More

Tunisian President Kais Saied has received his first dose of vaccine and promises not to “lose the war” against the coronavirus in Tunisia, where the health situation is considered catastrophic and the vaccination campaign too slow. The country, which recorded only about fifty deaths from March to August 2020, is currently at more than 16,000 deaths, with records of 194,… Read More

Their mission, should they choose to accept it, is simple: graze. Goats are an unlikely but increasingly popular weapon in California’s fight against the wildfires that rage through the western US state every year. On a recent hot July morning, a herd of 80 ungulates were deployed to a hilly patch of land in Glendale, just outside Los Angeles. They… Read More

Campaign group Reporters Without Borders called Monday for the immediate release of 12 journalists detained in a wave of arrests in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Most of the journalists, including one who runs a YouTube channel critical of the government, were arrested on June 30, according to Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF. It said no explanation… Read More