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The Junta that Ousted IBK is No More The junta in Mali which ousted ex-president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from power last year following weeks of protests is no more. As per a decree dated January 18 and obtained from a military official from sources of the ground, “The National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) is dissolved.” This… Read More

The cold hits you first. Then comes the smell. Inside a refrigerated shipping container are 17 plastic-wrapped corpses, each bearing a yellow label reading “highly contagious.” The 12-meter steel box has been installed at the Johannesburg morgue to help it cope with a rising tide of Covid deaths. The container can store up to 40 corpses, keeping them at a… Read More

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari replaced the heads of the armed forces on Tuesday as pressure builds over his response to the security situation. He gave no reasons for the resignation of the army, navy and air force commanders, who he appointed in 2016. But he tweeted the names of the replacements. Governors and the National Assembly had called on Buhari… Read More

Kobe Bryant’s Star Shines On One year ago today, basketball fans lost an NBA legend – Kobe Bryant after he, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people died in a helicopter crash on a steep hillside in the dense morning fog of Calabasas, Southern California, Bryant was just 41 and gone too soon for the family and friends he… Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa warned against wealthy countries bulk buying and hoarding coronavirus vaccine doses at the online Davos forum on Tuesday. “Rich countries in the world are holding onto these vaccines, and we are saying, ‘release the excess vaccines that you’ve ordered and hoarded,” he said. Some countries have been able to acquire up to four times the… Read More

A Coffin Production Crisis in South Africa South Africa is the most affected country by the COVID-19 pandemic on the continent, with 1.3 million confirmed cases and just over 40,000 deaths, according to the latest data from the country’s Health Department. A toll that has been putting the funeral industry under immense pressure, as coffin-makers and undertakers contend with the… Read More

Heavy fighting at a Somali town near the Kenyan border has killed at least nine people, according to Somali sources, as tensions between the East African neighbours increase. The fighting started late on Sunday and continued into the early hours. Somalia’s information ministry accused Kenya of supporting “rebels” to attack federal forces. It said Kenyan troops, accompanied by Somali fighters… Read More

The Egyptians who took to the streets on Jan. 25, 2011, knew what they were doing. They knew they risked arrest and worse. But as their numbers swelled in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, they tasted success. Police forces backed off, and within days, former President Hosni Mubarak agreed to demands to step down. But events didn’t turn out the way… Read More

Some 44 rebels in the Central African Republic who were trying to blockade the capital Bangui and overthrow the authorities have been killed by government forces, the government said on Monday. The rebels are protesting the re-election on Dec. 27 of President Faustin-Archange Touadera. Following the Jan. 4 announcement of Touadera’s victory, the rebel coalition said they would take the… Read More

Lundi, le laboratoire américain ModernaTherapeutics, a affirmé que son vaccin protégerait contre les variantes britanniques et sud-africaines. Stephane Bancel, PDG de Moderna a ajouté que cette annonce n’aurait pas été faite sans excès de prudence et sans qu’une batterie de tests préliminaires aient été menés en laboratoire. Les fabricants ont testé leurs vaccins contre les variantes mutantes, dont deux qui… Read More