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The death toll from weekend flooding in the eastern Ugandan town of Mbale has risen to 22, with 10 seriously injured, police said Monday. Two rivers burst their banks after heavy rains caused mudslides, causing widespread damage and forcing hundreds of residents to leave their homes. “The death toll from the floods in Mbale has risen to 22. Ten others… Read More

Two protesters were shot dead in South Africa on Monday during a demonstration against rising utility prices that was fired upon by police. The protest took place in the township of Tembisa, in the east of the South African economic capital Johannesburg, where angry residents, particularly over electricity prices, blocked roads with burning tyres and set fire to a public… Read More

Members of the UN mission and UN Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix paid tribute on Monday in Goma – in the absence of the Congolese authorities – to five peacekeepers killed in a week in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an AFP team found. A Moroccan peacekeeper was killed Tuesday in Butembo during violent anti-Monusco demonstrations. In the same circumstances, two… Read More

More than 80 men suspected of the gang rapes of eight women and armed robbery of a video production crew west of Johannesburg appeared in court on Monday. As the hearing took place, a 300-strong crowd people gathered outside the Krugersdorp Magistrates Court to express the community’s fury over the attack. News of the rapes and robbery has angered community… Read More

Last updated: 49 minutes ago Ten months after Iraq’s elections, a political standoff pits Moqtada Sadr, a populist with millions of followers among the country’s majority Shiite population, against the powerful pro-Iran Coordination Framework, another Shiite alliance. Since Saturday, Sadr’s supporters have occupied parliament in the usually highly secure Green Zone, which also houses government buildings and embassies. In multi-faith… Read More

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune called on Sunday evening for the military in power in Mali to return to legality “as soon as possible”. “I ask the current leaders of Mali to return to legality as soon as possible. I call on the current leaders of Mali to return to legality as soon as possible, to give voice to the people… Read More

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “outraged” by the deaths Sunday of two people when peacekeepers opened fire at a border post with Uganda in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Guterres “stresses in the strongest terms the need to establish accountability for these events” and endorses “the detention of military personnel involved in this incident and the… Read More

In the basement of the National Library of Tunis, conservator Hasna Gabsi combs through shelves of newspapers dating back to the mid-19th century to select the latest to digitise. She picks out a yellowed copy of an Arabic-language newspaper printed in the 1880s, then walks to the sections containing French, Italian, Maltese and Spanish-language newspapers published in Tunisia. “The archive… Read More

Last updated: 18 hours ago Hundreds of followers of powerful Iraqi Shiite preacher Moqtada Sadr began a second day camped at the country’s parliament on Sunday. Despite tear gas, water cannon and baking temperatures that touched 47 degrees Celsius (116 degrees Fahrenheit), they stormed the complex on Saturday after pulling down heavy concrete barricades on roads leading to Baghdad’s fortified… Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has highlighted the fight against corruption and the country’s struggling economy. Speaking during the closing day of the ruling African National Congress party’s conference, he said:”All the measures proposed to grow and transform the economy rely on a fiscal policy that ensures that our national debt is contained within sustainable limits and that spending is… Read More