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Somalia MPs are due to vote on Sunday (today) to choose the horn of African nation’s president, ending the convoluted electoral process that raised tensions in the country when the president’s term expired last year without a successor in place. **All 329 lawmakers of both chambers of parliament are expected to vote by secret ballot. To win in the first… Read More

Liverpool has the eighth FA Cup it has waited 16 years to win after defeating Chelsea at the Wembley Stadium. The Reds can now concentrate on the Premier League and Champions League. One bad news is with Mo Salah, who suffered an injury in the first half of Saturdays FA cup final. Liverpool missed the threat of the Premier League’s top… Read More

A total of $23 000 000 has been raised so far for the rebuilding of Waheem market in Somaliland which was guttered by fire in early April, the president announced in his final state of the nation address in his ending term of office. The fire destroyed properties worth up to $2 billion, according to local officials in the autonomous… Read More

A curfew has been declared in Nigeria’s northwestern city of Sokoto to quell protests demanding the release of suspects in the killing of a christian school student Deborah Samuel. It comes as hundreds of people in the northwestern city of Sokoto demonstrated Saturday over the arrest of two students following the murder of a Christian student accused of blasphemy, residents… Read More

Last updated: 17 hours ago Several hundred Malians gathered in Bamako to support the junta, the army and military cooperation with Russia. France is withdrawing its forces from Mali, while Germany announced earlier this week that it would reinforce its contingent in the UN peacekeeping force (MINUSMA). More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

Several hundred Malians gathered Friday in Bamako to support the junta, the army and the military cooperation with the Russians, denounced by the West. The various organizations that had called to gather on the Independence Square also had in their sights, for some, the West African sanctions still in force against Mali and the presence on Malian territory of thousands… Read More

South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. The new increase in COVID cases is coming as the country enters the Southern Hemisphere’s colder winter months, along with a rise in cases of flu. At a COVID testing centre in the Chiawelo area of Soweto, many people come in… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago A suspension bridge for pedestrians, which is the longest construction of its kind in the world, has been inaugurated in a mountain resort in the Czech Republic. The 721-metre long bridge is built at an altitude of over 1,100 metres above sea level. It connects two mountain ridges and rises 95 metres above the valley.… Read More

Comoros has hosted the eighth International Conference on Responsible and Sustainable Tourism. The conference held on the 10 and 11 May in Moroni, served as an opportunity for the Archipelago to promote its islands and to find solutions to overcome the lack of awareness of Comoros on the international scene. There was no going back on the touristic drive for… Read More

Stitching together discarded mobile phone keyboards to make art, Ivorian artist Mounou Desire Koffi hopes to raise awareness about pollution. “I wanted to contribute something new,” said the artist, whose work is on display in Abidjan until July. In his studio in Bingerville, near the Ivorian business capital, the 28-year-old describes himself as “young contemporary artist” who wants to stand… Read More