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More than half of the projected increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries, the UN has said, five of which are in Africa. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania, the new UN report – World Population Prospects 2022 –released Tuesday shows will contribute more than half to the increase… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago US President Joe Biden arrived at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, as part of the first Middle East visit of his presidency.  He was greeted by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Alternate Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. US President Joe Biden takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Holocaust memorial Yad… Read More

Last updated: 50 minutes ago Aerial images filmed from a helicopter flying over the fires in Gironde (south-west France, some 40 kilometres south of Bordeaux), which have already ravaged 1,700 hectares of pine trees, forcing the evacuation of 6,000 campers,  after two separate fires which are still raging in the pine forests.  “It was apocalyptic,” says the village’s mayor, speaking… Read More

Three people have been arrested after the mysterious deaths of 21 youths in late June at an informal bar in East London, southeast South Africa, police said Wednesday. The 52-year-old owner of the illegal but tolerated bar and two of his employees, aged 33 and 34, were detained for serving alcoholic beverages under illegal conditions, a police statement said without… Read More

Civil parties in the case of the jailed former senior Rwandan official Laurent Bucyibaruta have welcomed the ruling by a Paris court after handing him 20 years for complicity in the African nation’s genocide. The parties said this was a relief for the victims of atrocities during the 1994 massacres in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died… Read More

Analysts are now weighing in on the diplomatic row in west Africa following the arrest of Ivorian soldiers at Mali’s Bamako airport, accused of being “mercenaries” by the Malian authorities. Dr. Aly Tounkara, Executive Director of the Centre for Security and Strategic Studies in the Sahel and political analyst reflects on the situation. “According to the first factual elements given… Read More

Last updated: 11 hours ago Hundreds of Sri Lankans continued to flock to the Sri Lankan presidential palace, marveling at the paintings inside and lounging on the beds piled high with pillows. For many who had traveled on overcrowded trains and buses from outside the capital, Colombo, this was the first time they had laid eyes on a residence so… Read More

Olympic great Mo Farah won praise from across Britain after his revelation that he was illegally trafficked as a child to the country and forced to work in domestic servitude. The 39-year-old distance runner, one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful athletes, said in a  documentary that his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin. Rather than moving to the UK… Read More

The former Rwandan prefect, Laurent Bucyibaruta, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for complicity in genocide. The verdict comes more than 28 years after the Tutsi genocide of 1994 when he was head of the Gikongoro prefecture in western Rwanda. After nearly eleven hours of deliberation at The Court of Assize in Paris, the 78-year-old was acquitted as… Read More

Ivory Coast officials have called on Mali to immediately release 49 of its soldiers who were arrested Sunday at the international airport in Bamako, refuting accusations they were mercenaries. The Ivory Coast government said the soldiers were registered in the workforce of the Ivorian Army, and were in Mali as part of a UN peacekeeping mission. Earlier, Malian government spokesman, Colonel… Read More