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FIFA Legend and the World Health Organization’s Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health Didier Drogba spoke about football’s power to teach people from different backgrounds how to live together, the growth of women’s football and the need to create more opportunities for players in Africa. The former Cote d’Ivoire and Chelsea forward was appearing alongside HRH Princess Reem Bint Abdullah… Read More

South Africa National Police Commissioner, General Fannie Masemola has issued a public apology to the victims of the Krugersdorp attack where eight women were raped in July 2022. The apology from the authorities follows the public release of personal information of the eight women that included their names and surnames, age and physical addresses. The personal information of the victims… Read More

At least 8 people died in the southwestern Ugandan district of Kisoro after their homes were buried in a mudslide triggered by torrential rains, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, as emergency workers and local residents shoveled through the mud in search of bodies. Six of the eight people were members of one family whose house got buried due to… Read More

Sudanese exiled rebel leader Abdel Wahid Nur — a veteran of decades of fighting in the troubled Darfur region — says there can be “no winner” in the war now raging between two rival generals. “The Sudanese people want neither of them,” Nur, now based in neighbouring South Sudan, told AFP. “They want a civilian government.” Battles have flared for… Read More

The first group of Nigerian evacuees from Sudan arrived in Abuja on Wednesday after several days stranded at the border with Egypt. According to Nigerian authorities, the evacuation plan covers more than 3,500 nationals. “Bullets passed through our heads, we laid down at our own homes, we had to lay down on the ground. You can’t even sit down because… Read More

The number of victims in Rwanda’s floods has risen to at least 127. Torrential rains have swept through the Western, Southern and Northern provinces destroying homes and causing landslides. According to Rwandan authorities, most of the deaths occurred in the Western Province bordering Lake Kivu. Rwanda’s minister in charge of emergency management, Marie Solange Kayisire, announced that emergency relief was… Read More

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday met with his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto in Nairobi. The leaders discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing crisis in Sudan. Kishida reiterated his nation’s desire to strengthen trade relations with Kenya in order to help contribute to the stability of the region. “We would like to strengthen coordination with Kenya,… Read More

On World Press Freedom Day the journalists’ rights group Reporters Without Borders said it was concerned the Sahel region is in danger of becoming “Africa’s biggest news blackout zone.” In a gloomy report published a month ago, Reporters Without Borders denounced a “constant deterioration” in the working conditions of the local and international press in the Sahel. Thirty media outlets,… Read More

The U.N.’s humanitarian chief arrived at Sudan’s main seaport on Wednesday, as thousands of Sudanese and foreign nationals gathered there in hopes of fleeing by plane or boat. The battle for control of Sudan erupted after months of escalating tensions between the military, led by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and a rival paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces, commanded by… Read More

Conflicts, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic made more than a quarter-billion people suffer acute food insecurity last year in 58 countries. That’s roughly three percent of the global population which now stands at eight billion. Acute food insecurity is when a person’s inability to consume adequate food puts their lives or livelihoods in immediate danger. In seven of them… Read More