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Last updated: 1 hour ago Three bodies were found in a burnt out building in Honiara amid this week’s violence in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Australian media reported. Authorities had put a curfew in place on Friday night in an attempt to stem the unrest and the situation seemed to be calmer on Saturday. But the government showed… Read More

Passengers at Johannesburg’s O.R Tambo airport scrambled this Saturday to find flights to Europe as more and more countries are shutting doors to passengers coming from African countries. The emergence of the new coronavirus Omicron variant in South Africa sparked a worldwide reaction. Professor of Immunology Danny Altmann explains. “I know it feels very harsh to people in South Africa… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Thousands of Madrilenians gathered for Black Friday evening shopping as the city’s Christmas lights were switched on. Madrid’s Plaza Mayor has become a large Christmas market full of more than 100 colourful stalls where locals and tourists can find a variety of gifts and decorations. These festive scenes contrast with the closure of Christmas markets… Read More

Last updated: 7 minutes ago Hundreds paraded through central La Paz on Friday dressed as Christmas trees, candles, shepherds and Santas to mark the start of the holiday season. Crowds turned out along the parade route, also providing a boost for merchants in the Bolivian capital. Vanesa Calisalla, who brought her family to watch the festivities, said it was a… Read More

Last updated: 12 hours ago Activists from Extinction Rebellion blockaded more than a dozen distribution centres of online retail giant Amazon in Britain in what they called coordinated global Black Friday sales protests. Dozens of demonstrators from the environmental movement — known as XR — blocked the company’s largest UK warehouse, in Dunfermline in Scotland, as well as sites across… Read More

A new coronavirus variant which has been detected in South Africa. scientists say is a concern because of its high number of mutations and rapid spread in provinces like Gauteng and Limpopo. South Africans say this will further impact livelihoods. “We’ve passed difficult times during lockdown level 5. I think if we follow the protocol, not be scared of getting… Read More

Dozens of travelers have been spotted trying to get out of Morocco following the announcement of the suspension of flights to and from France on Thursday. Moroco’s foreign ministry says the decision will go into effect at 22.59 GMT on Sunday November 28 and until further notice. France has the world’s largest Moroccan expatriate community with more than one million… Read More

Africa is seeing a rise in the shipment of vaccine doses to the continent, but only one in four of its health workers has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the World Health Organisation regional office said on Thursday. The most common reasons for the low vaccination rate among health workers on the continent of about 1.2 billion people includes vaccine… Read More

Last updated: 2 hours ago A ceremony to celebrate the completion of renovation work of an ancient road lined with hundreds of statues of sphinxes and rams in Luxor, southern Egypt, was held on Thursday. The promenade dates back more than 3,000 years and is known as the “Avenue of the Sphinxes,” or the “Road of the Rams.” The roughly… Read More

A group of 93 asylum seekers stuck in Libya were evacuated to Italy on Thursday in the first flight of its kind in two years, the UN refugee agency said. The flight to Rome is one of five planned evacuation airlifts organised by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR. A total of 500 asylum seekers would be evacuated… Read More