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Last updated: 1 hour ago Protesters demonstrating against COVID-19 rules marched through The Hague for a second day on Sunday, in solidarity with Canada’s trucker demonstration. The group known as ‘Netherlands Resist’ organised the protest, gathered in Malieveld Park before marching to Dutch parliament, The Binnenhof. Police officers were present ahead of the demonstration after truckers blocked roads on Saturday.… Read More

Last updated: 59 minutes ago Members of Ukraine’s far right movement Azov held military training for Mariupol residents on Sunday to teach them self-defence in case of an attack from Russia. Ukraine’s far right Azov Battalion, part of Special Forces Unit at Ukraine’s National Guard, trained residents to assemble and dissemble a gun, to load ammunition and aim at targets… Read More

Sudan’s General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the Sudanese Sovereign Council denied growing cooperation between Sudan and Israel on security and intelligence after the two countries had exchanges of information. He made his comments in an interview with Sudan’s state-run TV which aired on Saturday. Burhan said that such ties between the former adversaries were not of political nature, adding that… Read More

As a little boy, Cesar Pintos — now 86 — played “drums” with his friends in the streets of Montevideo’s black-majority neighborhoods, beating tin cans with twigs to ancestral rhythms brought to Uruguay by enslaved Africans. It was the 1940s, barely 100 years since the abolition of slavery in the South American country and a period of explosive growth for… Read More

Libyan joint operations forces on armed vehicles, from Tripoli’s neighboring cities, rallied at the country’s capital on Saturday to support Abdel Hamid Dbeibah’s legitimacy as the head of the Libyan Government. The joint forces from Misrata, Khoms and Zlitan, with about 300 armed vehicles paraded in Tripoli’s Martyrs Square upon arrival. Colonel Ibrahim Mohamed, Field Commander of the Joint Operations… Read More

Members of the Tunisian Judges’ Association held an emergency meeting after President Kais Saied’s move to dissolve the Supreme Judicial Council months after a July power grab. The judges are now calling on President Kais Saied to turn his decision and reinstate the judicial council. The judges also vowed to protect the legal institution and the country’s constitution. “Once again,… Read More

Gabon is in a world-leading position when it comes to protecting oceans, say experts. The country on Africa’s west coast provides a blueprint that could be used in many other nations, according to a new paper compiled by Gabonese policymakers and researchers from the University of Exeter, UK. Gabon’s network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is very unique. Since announcing… Read More

In Kampala, East Africa’s party hub, the party never stops – that is until COVID-19 happened, sending the world and Uganda into unprecedented turmoil. It is 2am here at the Monte nightclub and like pre-COVID times customers are just arriving and the party is just getting started with the MC firing up the crowd at this bar, in the outskirts… Read More

The recent victory to the Senegalese team has now opened more expectations and hope for the local players in the west African country. This victory is their first in the continental competition has brought hope to these locally-based players who now expect more aid and other stakeholders to chip in to strengthen their position within the country. “Today, we must… Read More

Halima Bousekkaoui is ready for tourists to stay at her guesthouse – but no one is coming. Her Marrakesh business is one of many affected by the shutdown in travel caused by the pandemic. Morocco welcomed 13 million tourists in 2019. In 2021, that dropped to just 4 million. Late last year, the situation got much worse when Morocco suspended… Read More