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11-year-old Deborah is hosting lunch for other children like her who have Down Syndrome. Her father says the family was forced to seek costly medical help abroad. “There is no knowledge at all in the country, there is no therapy, no assistant teachers, there is no behavioral developmental doctors in the medical centers”, said Abadula Gemeda, Deborah’s father. But many… Read More

French-Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz was sentenced by a Geneva court on Friday to five years behind bars for corruption linked to mining rights in Guinea. After a seven-year international investigation, the 64-year-old businessman was accused of setting up a complex financial web to pay bribes so that Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) could obtain permits in an area estimated… Read More

Representatives of rival Libyan camps on Friday began talks in Morocco, an AFP reporter said, as part of ongoing efforts to bring an end to nearly a decade of conflict. Oil-rich Libya has been riven by civil war since the NATO-backed uprising that ousted long-time dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011. The UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) is based in… Read More

Hospitals in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos are struggling to manage an influx of Covid-19 patients. The country’s case tally has grown significantly since December driven by a mutant strain of the virus. Due to the crisis, some medical workers have had to stay on duty for days. “Some of us here, we don’t even sleep at night, because we have… Read More

Forensics teams in Libya have discovered 10 more bodies in mass graves in a once militia-controlled town outside the capital Tripoli, the Government of National Accord said on Thursday. “Three bodies were blindfolded and their wrists bound,” the GNA’s interior ministry said in a Facebook post on the latest grisly find at Tarhuna, 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Tripoli.… Read More

Insecurity is Affecting Humanitarian Workers in the CAR A little over a hundred humanitarian workers of several organisations have abandoned their offices — finding refuge within the United Nations MISSA since the occupation of Bangassou city by elements of the Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC) on January 3. As such, it is currently difficult to provide a significant humanitarian… Read More

Oscar Award-winning Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o, 37, has hit back at Kenya’s tourism minister for saying she has been unreachable for the last five years. The Tourism Minister Najib Balala had named British model Naomi Campbell as the country’s international tourism ambassador and defended the decision with the comment on Lupita’s “inaccessibility”. As criticism grew on why the role had… Read More

Mali’s government says it has chosen to use the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in its plan to initially immunise 4.2 million people by the start of April. Health minister Fanta Siby said on Friday that the vaccination would first target medical staff, the elderly and those with comorbidities. Siby said the vaccines unlike some others, do not need to be stored… Read More

Cameroon’s lethal weapon in the CHAN cup Jacques Zoua was captain for the first match against Zimbabwe. But he wasn’t on the pitch for the second match against Mali. Since Wednesday many headlines put forward theories over his absence. His team said it was due to injury but supporters were not convinced. “The players claimed this bonus which they did… Read More

A luminous painting by Pierre Soulages that once belonged to the poet and former president of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor will go on sale Saturday in Caen, according to the organizer Caen Enchères. This oil on abstract canvas made up of large black lines, reminiscent of a kind of asymmetrical totem pole, on a yellow background almost golden, is estimated… Read More