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At least nine people pronounced dead after a car bomb targeting a top police chief exploded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday. The terrorist attack — second to another explosion targeting a teashop in the city last week which took over ten lives, has since been claimed by The Al-Qaeda extremist group al-Shabab. Kassim Ali Shire, an eyewitness, shares his… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago Through tears and in between fraught silences, Devla Ajsic refuses to remain quiet any longer, as she walks around the eery former Dutch U.N. compound where she was sexually abused over 20 years ago. Ajsic was 21-years-old and three months pregnant in July 1995 when she was repeatedly sexually assaulted in Srebrenica while her fiancé… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago To mark the start of Northern Ireland’s annual marching season, loyalist groups set alight huge bonfires across the province on Friday evening. In Portadown, the loyalist community built a 64-metre-high structure from thousands of wooden pallets. Just before midnight the torches were lit and the pyre was set alight. Soon it came crashing down amidst… Read More

Last updated: 3 hours ago Members of Lithuania’s border guard have begun installing a barbed wire fence on the Lithuanian side of the border with Belarus, according to footage released by the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service. Lithuania began Friday to erect a fence along its border with Belarus to deter third country migrants from entering, a week after Vilnius… Read More

‘Summer of Soul’ a cultural music documentary of the African American star-studded Harlem Cultural Festival in the summer of 1969 in, New York, United States, premiered on Friday in Los Angeles, California. Documentary producer and internationally-renowned Neo-soul ‘The Roots’ drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is bringing — to the big screens, the never seen 40 odd hours of now curated footage… Read More

A marathon in Juba capital Friday to mark the tenth anniversary of the independence of South Sudan in 2011 from its northern Sudanese neighbour. The occasion was attended by the country’s political class including Vice Presidents James Wani Igga and Riek Machar — who had a message of hope. “In order for us to celebrate all the time, we must… Read More

World Trade Organization Director-General Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the G20 finance ministers summit in Venice, Italy on Friday, urged the attending officials to ramp up efforts of coronavirus vaccine donations, distribution and manufacturing support. The efforts are in order to combat the ongoing global health crisis. “In the continuing pandemic, vaccine inequity of access between developed and developing countries is… Read More

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that France would begin closing its bases in northern Mali before the end of the year, as part of a drawdown of French troops fighting Islamist extremists in the Sahel. Military bases in Kidal, Tessalit et Tombouctou, key sectors in the fight against armed groups in the region, will also be closed. “The shutdowns… Read More

Some thousand Haitians gathered on the grounds of the United States embassy in Port-au-Prince Friday — as they sought a believed chance at safety and opportunity. The rush is in light of unsubstantiated rumours circulating on the radio and across social media that the North American country would be handing out humanitarian visas. A Haitian citizen waiting outside the U.S.… Read More

South Africa announced Friday it would start vaccinating people under 50 years old as the continent’s hardest-hit country buckles under a vicious third wave of Covid-19 infections driven by the Delta variant. The decision comes just two weeks after the government extended the country’s struggling vaccination campaign under 60s. “We are aiming to start vaccinating the 35 to 49 age… Read More