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Under a scorching sun at a trading post in Malawi, Chikumbutso Chekeni and his wife head to their tobacco sheds to dry their newly harvested leaf. Nambuma, 35 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of the capital Lilongwe, used to be a thriving farming town, buoyed by vast tobacco farming businesses. Today, even during harvest season the town is sleepy, leading some… Read More

Worshippers gather at Bamako’s grand mosque for the korité, also known as Eid al-Fitr, the festival that marks the end of Ramadan. This year optimism prevails despite the sanctions imposed by ECOWAS on Mali four months ago. “From all points of view, the embargo has not changed anything with regard to the organisation of this festival” admits Abdoul Wahab Toure, son… Read More

Worshippers gather at Bamako’s grand mosque for the korité, also known as Eid al-Fitr, the festival that marks the end of Ramadan. This year optimism prevails despite the sanctions imposed by ECOWAS on Mali four months ago. “From all points of view, the embargo has not changed anything with regard to the organisation of this festival” admits Abdoul Wahab Toure, son… Read More

Last updated: 44 minutes ago People across Ukraine are visiting cemeteries to remember the dead.  Ukraine marks the commemoration day a week after Easter. This year has been especially poignant. Thousands of people fell victim of the Russian invasion. In Irpin, a city on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv, there are dozens of new graves. Civilians and military killed… Read More

Guinea’s military leader, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, announced a 39 month tansition period before the country returns to civilian rule. The announcement was made during a speech broadcast on television on Saturday. Colonel Doumbouya added that the measure would be subject to the National Transitional Council acting as parliament. “From all consultations at all levels since the beginning of the transition,… Read More

Prices of fuel have increased again in Burundi. The increase, the second in three months, follows the announcement made by the government last Thursday. Speaking on television, the minister in charge of energy blamed the increase on external factors. Sound 1/ Ibrahim Uwizeye, Minister of Hydraulics, Energy and Mines “Indeed, following the global economic situation, notably the fragility of a… Read More

Last updated: 18 hours ago Hundreds of people were arriving in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv after being evacuated from the nearby village of Ruska Lozova. The village had been under Russian occupation for more than a month. Almost half the village escaped in buses, in shrapnel-damaged cars or on foot, after fierce battles saw Russian troops pushed back and… Read More

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on Friday in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, to demand constitutional change. Pro-government demonstrators want to see President Faustin Archange Touadéra run for a third term in office currently not possible under the present Constitution. “Today I am here to support the third term of President Touadéra. In my mind, President Touadéra has proven his… Read More

Last updated: 13 hours ago In the “DD” settlement of Zaporizhzhia, there is no shortage of hands to cleanup the destruction caused by a rocket strike, which left five injured, including one child. People come together in solidarity to rebuild “on the ruins of what Russia has been doing” says one volunteer.  Citizens of Mariupol organised a field kitchen for… Read More

A court in Finland has acquitted a former rebel from Sierra Leone accused of war crimes. The decision, announced on Friday, rejected the accusations saying there was not enough evidence to convict the 52 year old former rebel of war crimes. The prosecutor is yet to decide if he’ll launch an appeal. “I understand that in a case like this… Read More