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This would pass as any other usual trash by the roadside but on a closer examination, one would notice that used face masks are part of the trash. Wrongful disposal of face masks is becoming a great concern in Kenya, with an increase in the number of face masks being used daily due to the enforcement of mask mandate. The… Read More

Sudan’s top general reappointed himself as head of the army-run interim governing body on Thursday, a sign that he’s tightening his grip on the country two weeks after he led a coup against civilian leaders. The move by Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan – along with other appointments he announced for the Sovereign Council – was expected to anger Sudan’s pro-democracy protest… Read More

Clashes flared again on Thursday between security forces and residents of a Tunisian town protesting against the reopening of a landfill site they say is a public health hazard. Demonstrations in Agareb earlier in the week, sparked by authorities reversing a decision to close the dump, escalated after the death on Monday night of a protester from what relatives said… Read More

Last updated: 41 minutes ago This kind of battle was good news for the impoverished, sometimes violent Cidade de Deus favela in Rio de Janeiro: a rap duel in a local bar held for the first time since the pandemic hit early last year. Ten local rappers took turns at the microphones as an audience of several dozen cheered and… Read More

Keenly aware of the controversies he’d dredged up, FW de Klerk used his last words to apologize “without qualification” for apartheid, and “the pain and the hurt” it did, in a video released after his death. He died at home early Thursday after a battle with cancer, his foundation said in a statement. De Klerk freed Nelson Mandela from prison,… Read More

Last updated: 9 hours ago Heavy rains in Sicily into Thursday opened up a sinkhole which swallowed up cars and threatened a residential block. No casualties were reported after the section of road collapsed next to the apartments in the town of Sciacca. Firefighters worked through the night in the Italian region, including rescuing people trapped in their homes by… Read More

Diary Sow’s disappearance from France where she was attending high school at the beginning of the year had caused a stir in her native Senegal. The 20-year-old known for her academic excellence showed up in Dakar days later. In an interview promoting her new book, ”I’m Leaving”, Sow says she felt “imprisoned by the opinion of others”. “I felt like… Read More

While Mali joined Morocco and Senegal in the play-offs of the African zone for qualification to the Qatar World Cup on Thursday, Algeria are also itching to seal their ticket in Group A when they meet Djibouti on Friday. Djamel Belmadi’s men are favorites to win the encounter, having thumped the Horn of Africa nation 8-0 in September. The Algerians… Read More

The first human clinical trials for a new vaccine against Ebola have started at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The study is being conducted by the same team that created the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19. “We are using the same technology that we used to develop the Oxford-Astrazeneca Covid vaccine. The vaccine that we’ve developed is actually… Read More

Tokunbo Salako: Let’s get more now on one of our top stories- The death at eighty five of South Africa’s last apartheid president Frederik Willem de Klerk, the man who oversaw the demise of the country’s white minority rule. His foundation says he had been suffering from cancer for some time. Michael he was a seminal figure in South Africa’s… Read More