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Mourners pray around the bodies of alleged victims of the Al-Kani militia. The bodies were found in mass graves in the once militia-controlled Libyan town of Tarhuna.abic, 10 sec): “Tarhuna bids farewell to convoys of martyrs. Everyday, it’s ten, seven, eight (victims), while the Al-Kani gangs and their criminal followers roam around in Benghazi” Tarhuna a resident. _”We demand fair… Read More

Three men went on trial in Paris on Monday over the bombing of a French military camp in Ivory Coast in 2004, which killed nine soldiers and sparked furious reprisals by the French, causing a deep rift in Franco-Ivorian relations. But none of the suspects were present in court and their whereabouts are unknown. Two Ivorian fighter jets were involved… Read More

The Mozambican armed forces assure that they are fighting to expel the guerrillas from the town of Palma, in northern Mozambique. The village fell into the hands of the jihadists between Friday and Saturday. The militias have been terrorizing the region since at least 2017, attacking the town on three fronts. There are several reasons for the chaos in the… Read More

Uganda’s national football team, the Cranes, failed to clinch a place for the AFCON 2021 after a narrow loss to Malawi 1-0 in the final qualifier match played in Blantyre. Malawi joined Burkina Faso in group B, displacing Uganda that held the second position after last week’s draw at home in Kampala. Malawi’s sole goal came through a header from… Read More

A joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press. The findings offer little new insight into how the virus first emerged and… Read More

Salvage teams on Monday set free a colossal container ship that has halted global trade through the Suez Canal, a canal services firm said, bringing an end to a crisis that for nearly a week clogged one of the world’s most vital maritime arteries. Helped by the peak of high tide, a flotilla of tugboats managed to wrench the bulbous… Read More

Al-Shabaab calls for attacks on US, French interests in Djibouti The leader of Somali’s jihadist group Al-Shabaab has called for attacks on “American and French interests” in Djibouti, in a video released Saturday night, less than two weeks before the country’s presidential election. Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar Abu Ubaidah, lashed out at Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh,… Read More

Families waited at a Mozambican port on Sunday as boats arrived carrying people who had fled the ongoing violence from a strategic town in the country’s north. Rebels fought Sunday for the fifth straight day to control the town of Palma, as reports came in that dozens of civilians had been killed and bodies were littering the streets. The fate… Read More

The Ever Given, a huge container ship that has been stuck across the Suez Canal for almost a week has reportedly been straightened and released. Video appeared to show the ship floating, but its owner later told AFP that it had only been “turned”. The Ever Given has been blocking one of the world’s busiest trade routes, the Suez Canal,… Read More

Ivorian authorities announced that 38 trafficking victims from Burkina Faso, 18 minors and 20 adults, will be deported from Ivory Coast to their country of origin in the next few days. They were intercepted while being transported to work in a gold mine in Aboisso, in southeastern Ivory Coast Thirty-eight Burkinabe children aged between 9 and 18 years old were… Read More