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Hundreds of Ethiopians gathered Thursday to donate blood for troops fighting in the northern Tigray region, as officials tried to rally support for a week-old conflict Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said was going his way. The government also announced that police had arrested 150 people in the capital suspected of trying to carry out “terror attacks” on the orders of… Read More

Taking Up Arms A military operation has been launched by Morocco in the buffer zone of Guerguerat near Mauritania, as announced Friday. The North African nation also denounced “the provocations of the Polisario” in Western Sahara — once a colony of Spain with a still undefined status. Classified as a “non-autonomous territory” by the United Nations (UN). The aim of… Read More

Ethiopia on Friday appointed a new head of Tigray region, one week after parliament voted to remove the executive Addis Ababa deems rebellious. Mulu Nega’s appointment was announced by PM Abiy Ahmed via Twitter. On the basis of the decision of the House of Federation and the Council of Ministers Regulation “Concerning the Provisional Administration of the Tigray National Regional… Read More

Could This Mean War? Mohamed Salem Ould Salek head of diplomacy of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic proclaimed in 1976 by the Polisario independence fighters declared Sunday that the movement was mobilizing “thousands of volunteers” to join its armed forces. In Salek’s exact words, “Thousands of volunteers are joining the military regions among those who have finished their training. Hundreds… Read More

Mysterious Watery Depths Aldabra Atoll — a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose water’s depths below the standard scuba diving 30 metres are little known. Nekton embarked on a deep-diving science mission into the watery world of the Indian Ocean. 450 metres below with submarine crews and underwater drones off the island nation of the Seychelles, The journey revealed diverse communities… Read More

A Visual Tribute to Houston’s DJ Screw ‘All Screwed Up’ is a new visual project that celebrates the life of Houston music pioneer DJ Screw who was one of the most influential cultural figures in Texas, United States. The black American entrepreneur was a generous godfather to a generation of hip hop artists — with some of the world’s biggest… Read More

Thousands of Activists Marched in Kinshasa The streets of Kinshasa on Saturday saw thousands of activists of the presidential Union for Democracy and Social Progress political party who marched to support the consultations — launched by the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Felix Tshisekedi on November 2, to form “a union of the nation” in the midst of… Read More

Death Threats for Civil Disobedience Tanzanian main opposition leader Tundu Lissu back in exile in Europe following an intense presidential election that saw his civil disobedience in protest of what he perceived as a constitutional coup d’etat, have him once again be the target of death threats. Nothing to take lightly after surviving a 2017 assassination attempt which nearly took… Read More

He was Ghana’s longest serving leader. Jerry John Rawlings who died after a short illness in Accra on Thursday morning, was known as an influential figure in Ghanaian politics. He rose to prominence as a former flight lieutenant to become the first democratically elected president of the 4th Republic in the West African nation in the 90’s. His charisma and… Read More

The United Nations has called for urgent measures to protect civilians in northeastern Mozambique, who have fallen victim to an Islamist rebellion. The jihadists attacked villages and killed several people in the Cabo Delgado province this week. Rupert Colville is spokesman for the UN Human rights High Commissioner. He says the situation is now desperate. “The situation is desperate both… Read More