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The security detail set up by the authorities around the Dakar home of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, candidate in the 2024 presidential election, has been lifted. Mr. Sonko had been blocked by the security forces at his home in the capital, “sequestered” according to him, since May 28th. On June 1rst, Mr. Sonko was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment… Read More

Senegal faced a new tragedy on the migration route linking West Africa to the Canary Islands: at least fifteen lifeless bodies were found Monday morning off Dakar. “They were migrants a priori”, Samba Kandji, deputy mayor of the Ouakam district, told AFP. Gendarmes and firefighters were on a beach in this district of the capital, below the cliff-topped corniche near… Read More

Human Rights Watch accused on Monday, the Malian armed forces and foreign fighters likened to Russian paramilitaries from the Wagner group of executing dozens of civilians in central Mali since December 2022, during anti-jihadist operations. The NGO has also denounced cases of torture of detainees, destruction and looting of civilian property. With the UN Mission due to leave the country… Read More

People in Tunisia on Monday scrambled to find ways to call off as temperatures soared abouve 50 degrees celsius. Summer temperatures normally peak at 45 degrees in summer in the north African country. The searing heat caused power cuts as demand outstretched supply. “I have a doctor’s appointment, that’s why I’m outside. I went out with my water bottle, but… Read More

A mission of the African Union (AU) is in Burkina Faso led by a regime resulting from a coup d’etat, to assess the situation of a country undermined by jihadist violence and suspended from the pan-African organization, noted Sunday an AFP journalist. Arrived Saturday evening in Ouagadougou, this delegation of the AU Peace and Security Council, 31 members strong and… Read More

A Congolese army soldier killed at least 14 people, including at least 10 children, with firearms on Saturday in Ituri, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, we learned on Sunday from concordant sources. This naval force soldier could not bear that his child was buried in his absence, the day before his arrival in the village of… Read More

Nine people, including four soldiers, were killed Sunday (Jul. 23) evening when a civilian plane crashed in Sudan due to “technical” reasons, the army said, as the war in the east African country entered its 100th day. In Port Sudan, on the east coast largely spared by the war, the army said a child had survived the crash of an… Read More

Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue was illuminated on Saturday to project the Climate Clock, showing how little time the world hasleftto slow global warming sufficiently to avert disaster. Brazil’s most iconic monument was illuminated to show the clock tick over from 6 years, 0 days, 00:00 hours to 5 years, 364 days, 23:59.59 hours. The 2015 Paris Agreement… Read More

A Libyan city was flooded on Thursday when a water pipe burst. The water pipe in Ajdabiya is part of the Great Man-made River (GMR), a network of underground pipelines and aqueducts that bring fresh water from ancient underground aquifers in the Sahara to the coast of Libya. Salah Al-Saadi, spokesman for the Man-made River Project Implementation and Management Authority,… Read More

In Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, the thousands of new Somali refugees are struggling as food insecurity worsens. As Somali suffers its worst drought in years, Somali refugees have fled over the border to Kenya. In recent months, 135,000 have arrived at Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, located 90 kilometres from the Somali border.  The camp is home… Read More