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The Ethiopian government’s decision to disband local “special” military units in the Amhara region has brought calm to the main towns and cities of the region, residents said on Thursday, after several days of unrest. “Today, it’s quiet. Banks are open and stores are starting to open. Transport resumed yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon,” a resident of Bahir Dar, the administrative capital… Read More

A blanket on the ground, a tarpaulin stretched over a tree: “we have no place to go, no water or food,” said Nasra, a Yemeni woman who is nine months pregnant and has been a refugee since Wednesday, along with a hundred other asylum seekers, near the headquarters of the International Organization for Migration in Tunis. Until the day before,… Read More

A new malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University has been given the green light by Ghanaian authorities for use in that country, a first for the much-hyped vaccine, according to a statement released Thursday. The R21/Matrix-M vaccine, developed by Oxford University scientists and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, “has been approved for use in children aged 5-36 months,… Read More

Going forward, UK soldiers could be tried for murder, amongst other grave offences, committed against Kenyans in Kenya. Kenyan MPs voted Wednesday (Apr. 12) to amend a defence agreement with the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The amended deal will now go to the Kenyan Ministry of Defence for further negotiation with their British… Read More

A Kenyan court hears a bid by Facebook’s parent company Meta to stop a lawsuit accusing it among other things of exploitation and poor working conditions. Meta is seeking to have the case struck down, arguing that the local employment and labour relations court has no jurisdiction over it because it is neither based in nor trades in Kenya. In… Read More

Nakuru County lies within East Africa’s vast Rift Valley. Hundreds of thousands of people here are suffering from acute water shortages, made much worse by drought. Volcanic and tectonic activity in the rift started about 30 million years ago and the area is still geologically active, with volcanoes, hot springs, and geysers. Now local communities here are embracing this local resource. In… Read More

United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, appealed for “massive international support” for Somalia during his visit to the country which came as it faces its worst drought in decades. He said the nation was dealing with humanitarian difficulties while at the same time also combating a serious terrorism threat. “The international community has the responsibility and the interest to support Somalia… Read More

The lawyer for an 11-year-old Moroccan girl, whose rapists received light sentences, on Wednesday appealed to the authorities to review laws protecting minors. Speaking on the eve of a new appeal hearing, Mohamed Sebbar, said the “debate on the protection of minors against sexual violence” should be intensified. The girl from a village near Rabat, who is now 12, was… Read More

This Ramadan in Algeria is described as one of the most economically costly in the country’s history due to the sharp increase in the prices of some basic foodstuffs. The increase in food prices, which started months ago with the reflections of the Covid-19 epidemic affecting the whole world and the Russia-Ukraine war, multiplied before Ramadan despite the government’s economic… Read More

South Africa said on Wednesday that an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin had complicated matters for the country ahead of a BRICS summit it is due to host in August. “All heads of state would be expected to attend the summit. But now we have a spanner in the works in the form of this ICC warrant,”… Read More