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In Sudan, the women’s football team is yet to win a match but that doesn’t stop their determination. Overcoming prejudice and a difficult security situation in the country following last year’s coup, the female team met their counterparts from South Sudan last month for a friendly match. Speaking before the match, the South Sudanese team felt it was an occasion… Read More

The son of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has announced his retirement from the army. The UPDF Commander Land Forces Gen Muhoozi announced this on Twitter on Tuesday. “After 28 years of service in my glorious military, the greatest military in the world, I am happy to announce my retirement. Me and my soldiers have achieved so… Read More

A group of Tanzanian students fleeing the conflict in Ukraine have arrived in Russia. The students were studying at Sumy State University in northeastern Ukraine when the fighting started. The city lies about 48km from the border with Russia. “The journey was tough because it involved both going by car and on foot. So we started our journey by car… Read More

In Europe, the first qualifiers for the Champions League quarter-finals will be known this evening. Liverpool host Italian side Inter Milan in England after winning the first leg 2-0. Jurgen Klopp’s Reds will be relying on the African duo Mo Salah and Sadio Mané for a place in the quarter-finals of the competition. “That’s a really good, really experienced team… Read More

On Monday, members of the new Tunisian “Temporary Supreme Judicial Council” were sworn in.The ceremony took place at the presidential palace in Tunis. Tunisia’s President Kais Saied inaugurated a “temporary” council of judges on Monday, which replaces an independent watchdog that he abolished in early February. 9 of the 21 members of the new judiciary watchdog were directly appointed by… Read More

The Geneva-based Human Rights Council gathered on Monday. As the 49th regular session continued, the U.N human rights chief Michelle Bachelet updated the council on the situation in Ethiopia. In the war torn Tigray region, the UN high commissioner for human rights said the context had deteriorated in the past few months. “I am alarmed by the growing humanitarian crisis.… Read More

A four-storey building collapsed in the night of Sunday to Monday in the city’s Angre district killing at least 5 and injuring more than 15 people. At least five people including three children have died with more than 15 others injured, after a building collapsed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The four-storey building collapsed in the night of Sunday to Monday… Read More

Monday’s rally was the latest in a string of protests over the military takeover, which removed the civilian-led transitional government. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Monday. As they denounced the military coup of last October, security forces fired tear gas canisters toward them. Monday’s rally was the latest in a string of… Read More

Burkina Faso’s 25-member government met Monday for their first-time cabinet meeting a few days after their appointment. Prime Minister Albert Ouédraogo, who was appointed on Thursday, formed a 25-member government on Saturday – including six women – to lead the country for three years before they return to constitutional order. “I call on all Burkinabes from all walks of life… Read More

Last updated: 6 minutes ago Lviv’s Film Center, like many other cultural and public spaces in the city, has been turned into a training facility for war. Pavlo Ganovskyi, a 28-year-old patriotic education coach with experience in the army, teaches classes for free and several times a week on how to use AK47 rifles and hand grenades for groups of… Read More