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On 17-21 November, Cyclone Gati formed in the Indian Ocean and made landfall on the 22nd near Xaafuun and the northern tip of northeast Somalia. It is the strongest storm on record in Somalia. Twice the annual average of rainfall was expected to fall in two days. Bosaso reported 128 mm in 24 hours and extensive damage was reported in… Read More

In sports this week, Liverpool trio Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk have been nominated for the FIFA World Player of the Year award for 2020. The list also comprises of other big whips like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé, Neymar, Sergio Ramos, Robert Lewandoski, Kevin De Bruyne and Thiago Alcântara. The three finalists for each award… Read More

For the first time in years, access to electricity will plummet in Africa this year because of the Covid-19 crisis, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency has told AFP. However, Fatih Birol has stressed the “enormous potential” in solar energy on the continent, if it can attract investors. The International Energy Agency boss was speaking on the occasion of… Read More

The special envoy of the African Union to Mali and the Sahel, Pierre Buyoya has resigned from his post. The former Burundian simply confirmed to the AFP that he had submitted his resignation, without further details or reason for the resignation. Buyoya was sentenced to life imprisonment in his country in October for the 1993 assassination of his predecessor Melchior… Read More

French authorities on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the forceful removal by police of a camp of migrants in central Paris that prompted outrage over the “brutal” tactics used. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said he had agreed to a proposal by the Paris police chief to immediately refer the issue to the National Police Inspectorate General (IGPN), which investigates officers’… Read More

A Serious Issue Requires Serious Action On Monday in Namibia, the regional governor of the Khomas Region, Laura Veendapi McLeod-Katjirua publicly addressed the ongoing issue of gender-based violence in the country which has been steadily garnering international media attention in light of protests staged by many young Namibian women. Namibian police and the Special Reserve Force fired rubber bullets, teargas… Read More

At least 600 people were killed in a “rampage” on November 9 in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region by a local youth group aided by police and militia, the national rights watchdog said Tuesday. The massacre in the town of Mai-Kadra is the worst-known attack on civilians during Ethiopia’s ongoing internal conflict pitting federal forces against leaders of the ruling Tigray… Read More

An ex-Nigerien president Mamadou Tandja has died aged 82, the government said Tuesday. Tandja, won election twice after the country’s return to civilian rule in 1999. He was overthrown ten years later following an alteration of the constitution to stay in power. Tandja’s death was announced in statement read on national television, with a decree of three days of national… Read More

Senegalese authorities are still trying to explain a mysterious skin disease that has affected a thousand fishermen since its appearance a week ago in the Dakar region, the Health Minister said Tuesday. A viral and contagious risk has been ruled out as all reported cases have progressed favorably without complications. Only one infected person out of a total of 1,004… Read More

Another Afro-Brazilian Life Bites the Dust at the Hands of Police João Alberto Silveira Freitas is the 40-year-old Afro-Brazilian man who was beaten to death by two white men in the French-owned supermarket franchise, Carrefour in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A violent incident that occurred following an argument between the three men and which was caught on… Read More