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In the Ivorian capital, one person in five lives in flood-prone areas. It is not just Climate change to blame. In Abidjan, people build in risky areas such as wetlands. Drainage pipes are blocked and channels are used as dumping grounds, leaving even the slightest of downpours to turn into flash floods. “The city was built with concrete and bitumen.… Read More

Last updated: 42 minutes ago Hundreds of abortion rights protesters wave banners and chant outside the White House to demand the president take stronger action to protect access to the procedure recently revoked by the Supreme Court.  “I have had two abortions in my life, and one was for medical health reasons. I would have died otherwise,” says a protester… Read More

Sudanese pro-democracy demonstrators celebrated Saturday the Muslim feast of sacrifice in the streets of Khartoum and its suburbs, between barricades and graffiti, to protest against the military regime in place. The morning prayer for Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) began Saturday in the streets of the capital and its suburbs, as demonstrators began… Read More

A mass shooting at a tavern in Johannesburg’s Soweto township has killed 14 people and left three others in critical condition, according to police. Police say they are investigating reports that a group of men arrived in a minibus taxi and opened fire on some of the patrons at the bar late Saturday night. Police were on Sunday morning removing… Read More

The European Commission vowed on Friday to step up its work with Morocco to fight people smugglers, following the deaths of 23 people at the Morocco-Spanish border two weeks ago. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson and Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska met with Morocco’s Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit in Rabat to discuss the events of June 24, when… Read More

Last updated: 17 hours ago Fifty bodies of Bosnians killed in the Srebrenica genocide in 1995 arrived at the Potocari memorial centre where they will be finally laid to rest on the 27th anniversary of the Europe’s worst massacre since the World War II. Families and friends of the victims gathered to lay the coffins in the hall outside the… Read More

Last updated: 4 hours ago Sri Lankan protesters demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign forced their way into his official residence and nearby office on Saturday, local media reported. Thousands of people were demonstrating in the capital Colombo against the island nation’s worst economic crisis in recent memory. It was not clear if Rajapaksa was inside the residence but footage shot… Read More

THE conflicts in Ethiopia have resulted in “brutal and cruel” human rights violations by both security forces and armed groups, the head of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) lamented Friday. A statutorily independent public institution, the EHRC has published its first annual report since the reform that brought Daniel Bekele to its head in mid-2019 and restored credibility to… Read More

Mouad Souief is very proud to live in the Bou Inania madrassa, a recently renovated Quranic school in the heart of the medieval old city of Fez, the former capital of the Kingdom of Morocco. The 25-year-old student feels “heir to the prestigious history” of this madrassafounded in the 14th century, rehabilitated since 2017 and which has revived its centuries-old… Read More

Elena Rybakina beat Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon final on Saturday to become the first tennis player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles championship. Rybakina is a 23-year-old who was born in Moscow and has represented Kazakhstan since 2018, when that country offered her funding to support her tennis career. The switch has been a… Read More