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Winter Wonderland for Libyans The Green Mountain in northeastern Libya was veiled white this week as snow fell in the area for the first time in 15 years. The rare flurry began on Monday and is expected to continue for at least two more days. Families from the Sidi Mohamed Al-Hamri area dressed warmly and headed outside for fun-filled snowball… Read More

More details are emerging over the Mauritius oil spill as the probe into the incident continues. The captain of the boat at the center of inquiry, Captain Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, told the inquiry committee that he steered the vessel near the shore to look for internet connection. “There was no internet on the ship and I agreed to dock in… Read More

President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday pledged no “immediate” reduction in the 5,100 French troops fighting an Islamist insurgency in western Africa, but also set out his strategy for a far lighter presence over time. Calls have risen in France for a review of the Barkhane force deployed in the Sahel region, which aims to curtail the terrorism threat while training… Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) has alerted six African countries to watch out for potential cases of Ebola after it emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea. The DRC declared the emergence of Ebola on February 7 while Guinea declared the outbreak on Sunday. “We have already alerted the six countries around, including of course Sierra Leone and… Read More

When rebels came to the Central African Republic city of Bangassou, the area’s top official Pierrette Benguere was forced to hole up in a UN base for a month. Now Bangassou, formerly home to around 30,000 people, is a ghost town, its plight symbolic not only of the recent rebellion but also of a long-running struggle to reassert the presence… Read More

Several thousand Algerians rallied in a northern town Tuesday, almost two years since the start of the “Hirak” protests which swept former strongman Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. Demonstrators brandished Algerian and Berber flags and shouted slogans against the military and current President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in the rally in Kherrata, 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of the capital Algiers. “A civilian… Read More

The South African education minister Angie Motshekga came under strong criticism for her remarks on rape. Motshekga was addressing students when she said that “an educated man won’t rape” which later attracted a lot of criticism. Students were heard murmuring in discord after she commented that she was disappointed that some educated men would still rape women. South African social… Read More

Locust Hunters On a Mission in Kenya In light of the ongoing desert locust infestations in Kenya, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has teamed up with the company 51 Degrees to get control of the situation — via tracking software integrated with a hotline system, scouts and dispatched aircraft. The software — initially developed for tracking poaching,… Read More

Chad will send 1,200 troops to combat jihadists in a flashpoint Sahel border zone, its president said Monday, as France looks to reduce its longstanding military presence in the vast, volatile region. Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and France are holding talks on the future of their campaign against insurgencies raging in the Sahel, which according to the UN… Read More

A confidential document which tends to demonstrate a little more the share of responsibility of France in the genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda has now been released. Some have described it, the missing piece of a dark episode in history. The telegram, which dates from 1994, was published by Médiapart and clearly shows that the former French government somehow let… Read More