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Five Eritrean footballers from the women’s Under-20 national team have gone missing during a regional tournament in Uganda. The players disappeared from their hotel in Jinja in southeastern Uganda on Tuesday. The five were part of the Eritrea squad for playing the Cecafa Women’s Under-20 Championship, which began on Saturday and runs until 9 November in nearby Njeru. According to… Read More

As rescue operations continued in Lagos for survivors in the rubble of a 21 floor building that collapsed on Monday questions are now being asked about the enforcement of building regulations. The Nigerian Inspector-general of Police visited the site and appealed for tighter regulation. “I think we need to strengthen regulations that are necessary when constructions of such nature take… Read More

The Internation journalist organization known as the journalist en danger (JED), has alleged 110 journos have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of this year. In its report entitled “Bad times for the press in the DRC” released on November 2 which corresponds to the International Day against Impunity and Crimes against Journalists, the organization… Read More

Gunmen in Nigeria’s capital abducted six people from the staff quarters of a university, officials said Tuesday. It was the first attack of its kind in Abuja since a wave of school kidnappings began in the country more than a year ago. Abuja University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah said that a total of six people had been kidnapped, including three… Read More

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, makala is an essential part of life. Ninety-five per cent of the population uses this type of charcoal for cooking. It is also one of the main causes of deforestation. In Kisangani, in the north of country, a women’s association is producing green charcoal from sawmill waste. An environmental and social project launched by… Read More

The President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Félix Tshisekedi pledged to fight the deforestation of the Congo basin rainforest, the second largest in the world after the Amazon, through a series of measures. Speaking at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow on Tuesday, Tshisekedi, who currently chairs the African Union, said his country was increasing its determined contribution… Read More

Rescuers combed through the rubble of a high-rise building in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos in search of survivors on Tuesday, a day after it collapsed while under construction. Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, visits rescue operations on the site where a high-rise building under construction collapsed on Monday, and calls for tighter rules governing building projects. “I think we… Read More

Gabon is the first African country to be rewarded for its efforts against deforestation at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. The Nkok Special Economic Zone (ZES), the flagship of the Gabonese economy in ten years has been ranked as the best industrial zone in the world in the timber sector by FDI Intelligence- a service from the Financial Times… Read More

Five people were killed on Tuesday when a cargo plane carrying fuel for the UN’s World Food Programme crashed near South Sudan’s capital Juba, airport officials said. The aircraft — a Soviet-era Antonov An-26 transport plane — crashed shortly after taking off from Juba’s international airport, killing everyone onboard. “One is a South Sudanese, two are Sudanese and two are… Read More

Last updated: 24 minutes ago The Archbishop of New York kicked off the holiday season Tuesday by blessing the animals that will be featured in the Radio City Music Hall’s live Nativity scene. Joined by the famous Rockettes, Cardinal Timothy Dolan sprinkled Holy Water on a camel, donkey and sheep after they paraded around the famous building. Covid-19 forced the… Read More