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Last updated: 21 minutes ago More than a hundred people protest in Panama City over the disappearances of more than 15 women in the past year. “Every day there is a girl, a minor, a woman, a mother, a wife missing, and the authorities do nothing at all,” says Nayiska Pimentel, one of the demonstrators protesting outside the Attorney General’s… Read More

Last updated: 12 minutes ago A journalist for Al Jazeera was shot and killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin early Wednesday. The broadcaster and a reporter who was wounded in the incident blamed Israeli forces, who said they were investigating. Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known Palestinian female reporter for the broadcaster’s Arabic… Read More

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday granted a 432 million euro loan to Mozambique, the first since it withdrew six years ago at the time of the so-called “hidden debt” scandal involving the government. The outline of the deal was announced in late March. “The IMF said in a statement: “These provisions will support the economic recovery and the… Read More

In Zimbabwe, 60 people have been killed by elephants since the start of 2022, the government announced on Tuesday. With 100,000 specimens, Zimbabwe has the second largest elephant population in the world after Botswana, representing about a quarter of the elephants in Africa. Unlike other countries, where poachers have wiped out these mammals for the ivory trade, the elephant population… Read More

The military court in Ouagadougou on Tuesday sentenced former Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré and nine other defendants to pay more than 800 million CFA francs (1.2 million euros) in damages to the beneficiaries of former head of state Thomas Sankara and his companions assassinated in 1987. The amount of damages for “reparation of moral and economic prejudice” amounts to… Read More

Faced with the climate emergency and the drought that affects the planet, particularly the African continent, many heads of state are meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast to adopt measures to help people gain access to water and the resources needed to conserve their land. As the conference holds, a new report from the World Meteorological Organization says the world is creeping… Read More

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited gas-producing ally Algeria for talks Tuesday as Europe jockeys to secure alternative energy supplies in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Algeria is a major gas supplier to Europe, providing 11 percent of its imports, compared with 47 percent from Russia. Algiers abstained when the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution in… Read More

Borussia Dortmund completed a busy day of transfer activity on Tuesday by signing Germany forward Adeyemi from Austrian champion Salzburg to soften the blow of losing its star player to Manchester City. The Bundesliga club said the 20-year-old Adeyemi signed a contract through June 2027 after completing a medical examination in earlier in the day. “Adeyemi is a highly talented,… Read More

Last updated: 22 minutes ago Afghanistan’s supreme leader and chief of Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, issued a decree over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully, ideally with a traditional all-covering burqa. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

Last updated: 21 minutes ago Five people were killed and more than 225 wounded in a wave of violence in Sri Lanka where the prime minister resigned after weeks of protests over the worsening economic crisis. As clashes spread late into Monday night, authorities imposed an indefinite curfew across the nation of 22 million people and called in the military… Read More