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The death toll from an explosion at an illegal refinery in southern Nigeria has risen to over 100 after more people died from their injuries. The blast occurred late Friday at the illegal site between the southern oil states of Rivers and Imo, police said. “The death toll is now 110 from 80 as more people have succumbed to their… Read More

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children living in Africa, succumb to malaria, an age-old mosquito-borne scourge. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 627,000 people died in 2020, an increase of 12 per cent from 2019, mainly due to “disturbances” in access to care linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. Before 2020, steady progress on the transmission and… Read More

Six soldiers were killed and 20 injured in simultaneous attacks targeting three army bases in central Mali Sunday, the army said. Targets in Sevare, Niono and Bapho were all hit by “armed terrorist groups (who) used suicide vehicles packed with explosives”, the Malian army said in a statement. A group linked to the firebrand preacher Amadou Koufa claimed the attacks,… Read More

Scientists on Saturday began a five-month mission to study how plastic pollution in Africa’s main rivers and climate change stresses are impacting microorganisms in the Atlantic ocean, they announced. The survey is being staged from the 33-year-old Tara research schooner which arrived in South Africa’s Cape Town on Friday ahead of the expedition up the West African coast. The researchers… Read More

Hunger and unemployment are turning some Luanda residents into “death hunters”, whose mission is to stand at the entrance of cemeteries and follow relatives of the deceased to the residence where the ceremonies are held in order to feed themselves. Guilherme Augusto Dias is one of these cases. For three months he has been “death hunting” in the Angolan capital,… Read More

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday secured his second term by defeating far-right leader Marine Le Pen in presidential elections. Macron won by 58.2 percent of the vote compared with Le Pen on 41.8 percent, according to the electoral commission. The result is narrower than their second-round clash in 2017, when the same two candidates met in the run-off and… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago The annual birthday celebration, called in ancient times “Dies Romana” or “Romaia”, included historical re-enactments of ancient Roman rituals, costumed parades, and gladiator fights, staged by the Rome Historical Group in the Circus Maximus. The events were opened to the public for the first time in two years after Italy eased its COVID-19 restrictions. The… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv has been pummelled by strikes day and night since Russian forces attempted to seize it at the start of the invasion. The bitter fighting has rendered the city of 1.5 million a tangle of blown-out shops and smouldering apartment blocks, and forced families underground where they are sheltering in the… Read More

Businessman Idriss Diallo was elected Saturday as head of the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF), in an election in the capital Yamoussoukro where former star striker Didier Drogba was eliminated in the first round. “Mr. Idriss Diallo is elected president of FIF for the next four years,” declared the president of the session, Mariam Dao Gabala, after the counting. Mr. Diallo,… Read More

South Africa is staring at an acute housing crisis, especially in the two provinces where deadly floods were reported in last in recent weeks. This shortage is now being experienced by low-income families that mainly live in shanty houses locally known as sharks. The problem has been exacerbated by low incomes and lack of land. Thulisile Ntobela once lived in… Read More