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Last updated: 5 hours ago Ukrainians started preparing Molotov cocktails in Kyiv amid fears of possible Russian intrusion into the city. Huge explosions lit up the sky early Sunday near the capital, Kyiv, where terrified residents hunkered down in homes, underground garages and subway stations in anticipation of a full-scale Russian assault. Officials maintained a 39-hour curfew to keep people… Read More

In Douar Azbane Lagrinate, a small village located 47 kilometres north of Marrakech, this farmer is growing alfalfa herbs. Rachid Ait El Jadida owns six hectares of crops and looks after them just like his parents and grandparents did before him. But over the last few years, his job has become more difficult because of a lack of rainfall. “We’ve… Read More

Kenya’s agricultural lands are becoming dried out and barren as weather patterns change. Drought has left farmers without the crops they have relied on for generations. For farmer Safari Mbuvi, it’s a devastating blow. He sank 50,000 Kenyan shillings in this season alone in planting. “Since I was young, my father used to get a bounty harvest in this farm,… Read More

Last updated: 4 hours ago Russians in cities spanning from Moscow to Siberia have taken to the streets again on Sunday to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Demonstrators marched in city centres, chanting “No to war.” In St. Petersburg, where dozens gathered in the city centre, police in riot gear grabbed protesters and dragged some to police vans, even though… Read More

Rescuers in the Comoros scrambled to find any survivors after a plane carrying 14 people crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago on Saturday. Airline AB Aviation said its small Cessna plane disappeared from the radar about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) from its destination during its flight between the capital Moroni and the city of Fomboni on the island of Moheli.… Read More

Burkina Faso’s ruling junta, the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration (French: Mouvement patriotique pour la sauvegarde et la restauration, MPSR), holds a press conference to respond to the proposal of 30-month transition period to return to constitutional rule by a newly created Transition Charter committee. The MPSR says this period cannot be “fixed,” and that the transition can only… Read More

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday said his party had joined an opposition coalition ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections in August in a bid to clean up politics of “crooks”. The announcement came after Kenyatta’s anointed successor William Ruto, who wants to contest the presidential election, was sacked from the ruling Jubilee party. “I heard one person saying that… Read More

Last updated: 30 minutes ago Three blood donors were wounded, and one died after Kharkiv Regional Blood Service Centre was hit by shelling on Friday. After the shelling, the staff had to move all the equipment down to the cellar which now serves as the centre’s main unit and bomb shelter. Some donors had to spend the night inside to… Read More

Five workers with the French medical charity MSF have been kidnapped in Cameroon’s Far North the members of the medical team were taken away in the night by Armed men in Fotokol, near the border with Nigeria, on Thursday. the assailants took hostage three MSF staff, a Chadian, a Senegalese and a French-Ivorian, as well as the two Cameroonian guards.… Read More

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Algerian War, sociologist Samia Chabani, the president of the Association of Progressive Pied Noirs, Jacques Pradel, and the documentary filmmaker of Algerian origin, Fatima Sissani, recount the links between Marseille and Algerian history. According to Samia Chabani, sociologist and president of the Ancrages association in Marseille; “Out of… Read More