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The Gambia suffered its worst flooding in “nearly half a century” late last month, killing 11 people and internally displacing more than 5,000, its disaster agency said in a report on Thursday. Flooding following heavy rains on July 30 and 31 in the small West African country “directly affected” at least 40,000 people, including more than 8,000 children under the… Read More

Germany announced Friday that it was suspending its participation in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West African nation refused to grant a civilian aircraft carrying German troops permission to use its airspace. The flight was part of a troop rotation, and German officials said it was not the first time Mali has denied overflight permission. Germany’s defense… Read More

The president of Somaliland says five people were killed in opposition protests over fears of a delayed election. This comes hours after police confirmed shooting demonstrators and accused them of not following officers’ instructions. In comments late Thursday, President Muse Bihi Abdi said the five were killed in the capital, Hargeisa, and the towns of Burao and Erigavo in Somaliland,… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Eleven coffins draped in purple cloth line freshly dug graves in the last row of Bucha’s cemetery. Inside rest nine men and two women who were killed during Russia’s occupation of the Kyiv suburb in March. Almost all the dead had been hastily buried in mass graves by local residents as the fierce fighting left… Read More

The Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) announced the sacking of coach Vahid Halilhodzic. The Franco-Bosnian coach who has been in charge since August 2019 leaves three months before the World Cup 2022 in Qatar in which the Atlas Lions will participate. After Côte d’Ivoire and Japan, this is the third time that Halilhodzic was sacked after qualifying a team for the… Read More

On Thursday, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had not yet declared the official results of the presidential race. However, winners of other elective seats were being announced.The Orange Democratic Movement candidate Peter Ochieng Orero was elected new Kibra-MP.  The winner received the certifcate proving his success. For this Raila Odinga ally, going to the collection and tallying centers… Read More

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed kickstarted electricity production from the second turbine at its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Thursday, despite continuing objections by Egypt and Sudan over the project. Abiy also confirmed that a third filling of the multi-billion dollar Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was under way, a development that led Egypt last month to protest… Read More

Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets of the capital, Khartoum, on Thursday to demand an end to military rule and claim better living conditions. Last month, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan pledged in a televised address to step aside and make way for Sudanese factions to agree on a civilian government. Civilian leaders have denounced the move describing… Read More

European Union election observers say that elections in Kenya were marked by less tension compared to previous occasions. The observers however raised concerns about the counting process as they had been kept away from it. Kenya’s complex process of verifying and tallying votes is expected to take days raising the prospect of unrest. “The lead-up to the elections was characterised… Read More

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on Thursday that the second turbine at its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile is already generating electricity. The announcement came despite continuing objections by Egypt and Sudan over the project. Cairo and Khartoum fear the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could threaten their access to vital Nile waters and demand a written agreement… Read More