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Multiple people were wounded Wednesday when an explosive device hit an international ceremony commemorating the end of World War I. The event was being held at a cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah, according to French government officials. Several countries had representatives at the ceremony, held at a cemetery for dead non-Muslims, the officials from the French Foreign Ministry… Read More

Rescue teams out in force on Wednesday in the Mediterranean as they tried to save some 88 people, including children and babies, who have been shipwrecked on a flimsy boat that gave way. The Open arms vessel said it recovered five bodies and that the rickety boat collapsed and tipped them into the sea. The Spanish NGO managed to distribute… Read More

Islamist militants in Mozambique have beheaded more than 50 people at a village in the northern part of the country, local media reports. The attack was carried out by an Isis-linked group in the village of Muatide in conflict-ridden Cabo Delgado province, spanning several days. A local news agency said the attackers set fire to several villages and gathered together… Read More

Even before the anti-government protests were set to start in Angola, police had their guard up and were searching pedestrians and setting up roadblocks in the capital Luanda. Authorities have banned Wednesday’s protest. Demonstrators are demanding authorities layout concrete plans for decent living conditions and the cost of living in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Angola… Read More

Burkina Faso’s president vowed to defeat a militant insurgency in his country’s north if re-elected. Roc Marc Christian Kabore was campaigning ahead of an election slated for November 22. Burkina Faso is one of 3 Sahel countries swept up in militant violence. ”Terrorism has caused much damage in our country – human and material damage as well as administrative damage,… Read More

In the Republic of Congo, women are using sports betting to cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the case of Geordine Bikindou based in Pointe-Noire, the commercial city of this Central African nation. Having gone bankrupt in trading bananas, Geordine took up betting. Thanks to a friend’s advice and it’s going well. ”I thought I could… Read More

The Polisario Front on Monday vowed to end a decades-old ceasefire deal with Morocco after it accused Rabat of moving its forces to an area manned by UN peacekeepers. “Moroccan occupying forces began last night to move a large number of gendarmes and other security forces in the region,” said a statement received by AFP. “This will also mean the… Read More

Twenty-Five years ago, Nigeria’s Niger Delta region burst into international headlines. Nine Nigerian environmental activists including a popular writer Ken Saro Wiwa, accused of murder were executed by the then Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha’s regime. Saro Wiwa, tired of seeing the environmental pollution and the exploitation of natural resources in his native Ogoniland, founded the Movement for the Survival… Read More

Florence Tchuendom is a Cameroonian football coach who’s determined to use her experience to uplift others. Currently, she coaches a 13-member players men’s amputee team in Douala, Cameroon. ”What drove me to train amputees was because I was part of an association of amputees. In this association there are a lot of young people who did nothing, and I wondered… Read More

Burundi Back in the Official French-Speaking World The International Organisation of the Francophonie (OIF) will fully resume its multilateral cooperation with Burundi — officially reintegrated into the bodies of the after four years of suspension. The country’s return to the French-speaking world comes after four years of suspension, a consequence of the socio-political crisis within the nation since 2015 —… Read More