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Last updated: 1 hour ago Mississippi’s only abortion clinic has been buzzing with activity in the chaotic days since the U.S. Supreme Court upended abortion rights nationwide — a case that originated in this conservative Deep South state and with this bright-pink medical facility that is closing its doors Wednesday. Physicians at Jackson Women’s Health Organization have been trying to… Read More

Benin’s government has been taking steps to stop incursions after several months of terrorist attacks in the northwest and northeast of the country. Despite this citizens still feel insecure. Jihadists first struck Porga in the Pendjari National Park area in December 2021, where two soldiers and an assailant lost their lives. Following this, the government set up a military base in the… Read More

Ethiopia’s parliamentarians have set up a commission of enquiry into the recent “inhumane massacres of civilians” in the country in a resolution adopted on Wednesday. They named several regions, without explicitly referring to the most recent killing, which took place on Monday in the Qellem Wollega administrative zone of Oromia, the country’s largest and most populous region. The attack targeted… Read More

The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new United Nations report that provides fresh evidence that the world is moving further away from its goal of ending hunger, food… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago After heavy rains and record river flooding, creeks and rivers in the Amazon capital Manaus have been covered by a carpet of trash, affecting entire communities. The lack of infrastructure and awareness has worsened the problem even as urban cleaning efforts average 30 tons of garbage collected from river waters everyday. With the Negro River… Read More

Nigerian pastors in police custody denied that they were holding churchgoers in a basement against their will for rapture. Police in Nigeria freed at least 77 people who were kept in the church basement by pastors who preached to them about Christian believers ascending to heaven with the second coming of Jesus Christ, authorities said Sunday. The people rescued Friday… Read More

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, at least 27 million people are facing food insecurity, according to the United Nations. The UN predicts the situation is likely to worsen, due to recent fighting between the M23 rebel group and the army in the East of the country, that has displaced tens of thousands. The region, which borders Rwanda, lives with… Read More

Fuel prices soared in Ethiopia on Wednesday after the government reduced subsidies, adding to economic hardship for people already struggling with high inflation. There were long queues at petrol stations in the capital Addis Ababa, with drivers reporting shortages as they tried to fill up their tanks. The price of petrol at the pump jumped almost 30 percent to 48.83… Read More

At least 22 migrants, including three children, all from Mali, died in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the United Nations said Tuesday, citing survivors who reported drowning. After nine days at sea in a dinghy, 61 survivors, mostly from Mali, were rescued by Libyan coastguards and brought to shore, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. The migrants… Read More

Algeria, a major supplier of tourists to Tunisia, will reopen the land border between the two countries in mid-July. The border was closed in 2020 during the peak of Covid-19, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announced on Tuesday. “We have taken a joint decision to reopen the land borders from July 15,” Abdelmadjid Tebboune said at Algiers airport alongside his Tunisian… Read More