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Last updated: 5 hours ago Ethiopia staged a massive rally on Sunday in Addis Ababa to rail against the United States imposing restrictions on economic and security assistance over the conflict in the Tigray region. Demonstrators packed a stadium in the capital for the pro-government rally, chanting against the US sanctions and waving posters accusing foreign powers of interfering in… Read More

Last updated: 20 minutes ago Sicily’s Mount Etna erupted again in the early hours of Sunday 30 May, spewing lava and releasing thick plumes of ash. According to a statement by the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology, the explosions originated from Etna’s southeastern crater. The eruption plume reached a height of about 6.5 km (4 miles) above sea level.… Read More

Last updated: 35 minutes ago Hundreds of people in Warsaw on Saturday rallied in support of the Belarusian opposition, days after the regime in Minsk diverted a European passenger plane and arrested a dissident journalist onboard. Among those present were the Poland-based parents of the detained journalist, 26-year-old Roman Protasevich. The crowd chanted “Long Live Belarus” and held up the… Read More

TThe lions of Senegal retain their crown in the 2021 African Beach Soccer Cup of Nations. The hosts played against Mozambique on Saturday in their home city of Saly. Raoul Mendy and his team showed Mozambique that they are the kings of African Beach Soccer. Senegal won without trembling the 10th edition of the CAF with a 4-1 victory and… Read More

Last updated: 6 minutes ago Palestinian youths play parkour on the ruins of al-Jalaa tower, hit by an Israeli airstrike which flattened the 13-floor building housing US news agency the Associated Press and Qatar-based Al Jazeera television, in Gaza City. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement which controls the Gaza Strip, appeared to hold today after 11… Read More

The remaining 14 students who were kidnapped from a university in northwestern Nigeria were freed on Saturday, 40 days after being taken hostage, a local police spokesman told AFP. Such seizures have become a frequent way for criminals to collect ransoms, with more than 700 abductions since December. Protesters have taken aim at security forces and blamed the government’s inaction… Read More

West African leaders will meet in Ghana on Sunday to decide the thorny question of their response to the double coup by the Malian military, Colonel Assimi Goïta, who is now officially the country’s leader and has been invited to the summit. The heads of state and government of the West African Community of States (ECOWAS) meet from 2:00 p.m.… Read More

Despite claims by both Ethiopia and Eritrea that they were leaving, Eritrean soldiers are in fact more firmly entrenched than ever in neighbouring Tigray, where they are brutally gang-raping women, killing civilians, looting hospitals and blocking food and medical aid, The Associated Press has found. Multiple witnesses, survivors of rape, officials and aid workers say Eritrean soldiers have been spotted… Read More

Thousands of people from the Democratic Republic of Congo are returning to neighbouring Rwanda, fearing that the Mount Nyiragongo volcano may erupt again. Last week, an eruption killed more than 30 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has raised concerns the county has limited means for the influx. “We already need urgent global support to keep… Read More

Several hundred Malians rallied in the capital Bamako on Friday to support the army, as well as Russia, AFP journalists said, after the military reasserted control in the unstable Sahel state this week. Military officers detained transitional president Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane on Monday, before stripping them of their powers and freeing them on Thursday. The move… Read More