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Last updated: 8 hours ago Tortioses were covered by pink fire retardant and a portion of their sanctuary was damaged in a Northern California wildfire. The Tortoise Acres Rescue and Sanctuary in Anderson, was in the path of a wildfire in Shasta County. As the fire and air response personnel tried to control the fire around the sanctuary, the fire… Read More

In Kumba, southwest Cameroon, the calm was deceptive, Friday. A convoy of the Cameroonian elite military force known as BIR attracted about a thousand people in a few minutes. The special forces were displaying the body of the separatist leader, known as Field Marshall. The fighter had been giving the army a hard time. He was wanted for his crimes… Read More

Morroccan firefighters battle infernos. Fires ravaging remote mountain forests in the northern region of the Kingdom have killed at least one person, authorities said Friday. The corpse was found amid one of the blazes in the Larache region. In the north of Morocco, fires which are fanned by strong winds have forced more than 1,000 families to evacuate. Raging blazes… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago “I used to spend my days on the streets, lazing around and doing nothing but barbering saved me,” says 17-year-old Alexnaiker, after winning a barbering competition in an impoverished neighbourhood of Caracas. Teenagers from the Venezuelan capital spent four months training for the competition organised by an NGO which seeks to offer youngsters the chance… Read More

Several people have died and about eighty thousand others have been displaced from their homes in the last six months, following an upsurge of conflict in South Sudan’s Tambura area, located in Western Equatoria State. Their green fertile lands are now abandoned and untilled. Since the outbursts of violence, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, has been conducting… Read More

The Republic of The Congo published Friday, the provisional results of the first round of legislative elections. The polls which took place early July saught to fill the 151 seats of the National Assembly. According to the Minister of territorial administration, Guy Georges Mbaka, who announced the provisional results, the ruling party dominated the election. The Congolese Labour Party (PCT) of… Read More

France’s foreign and military ministers begin an official visit to Niger on Friday, a key partner of Paris in the Sahel, at a time when France is seeking to redefine its military and diplomatic offer in Africa. Pushed out of Mali by the junta in power since 2020, which called on the services of the sulphurous Russian paramilitary group Wagner,… Read More

Ons Jabeur knows how to make a big entrance. The Tunisian tennis player received high public acclaim Friday. She proudly displayed the runner-up plate she earned after finishing second at the Wimbledon ladies singles championships in London. To celebrate with her, many Tunisians flooded the streets. A big crowd assembled under the large stand in front of the Local Theater on… Read More

Firefighters and the military struggled on Friday to contain three wildfires in northern Morocco that have killed at least one person as hundreds of residents evacuated their homes because of flames that ravaged large swaths of pine forests. Efforts to extinguish the blazes have been hampered by high temperatures and strong winds in the North African country. The interior ministry… Read More

A show of horsemanship. The end of the Eid al Adha in Nigeria is being celebrated with a mix of religious and equestrian festivities known as The Durbar festival. Eid al-Adha marks the culmination of the Hajj. The festival takes place in several states mainly in the northern of the country. The annual festival begins with prayers, followed by a… Read More