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Syria’s top diplomat is on a three-day official visit to Tunisia to restore diplomatic ties broken since 2012 during the civil war that followed President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on mass protests against his rule. Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad met his Tunisian counterpart Nabil Ammar shortly after arriving on Monday evening. No details were released on those talks or… Read More

In Kenya’s western city of Kisumu, Malaria is endemic. Parents queue to have their children jabbed. They will receive the RTS,S vaccine which acts against Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite globally and the most prevalent in Africa. That vaccine, sold by GlaxoSmithKline as Mosquirix, is about 30% effective. Despite medical trials for other parasitic and mosquito-borne diseases, progress is painstaking but hope is… Read More

Washington’s top diplomat said Tuesday that a U.S. Embassy convoy came under fire in Sudan and denounced “indiscriminate military operations” as the country’s armed forces and a powerful rival unleashed heavy weapons in urban areas for a fourth day. The convoy of clearly marked embassy vehicles was attacked on Monday, and preliminary reports link the assailants to the Rapid Support… Read More

G7 foreign ministers on Tuesday urged warring forces in Sudan to “end hostilities immediately” and return to negotiations, after clashes that have killed almost 200 people. A weeks-long power struggle exploded into deadly violence Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo,… Read More

Rached Ghannouchi, one of the main opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied, has been arrested, his Ennahdha party said Monday, the latest in a string of opposition figures held. Ghannouchi, 81, whose party was the largest in parliament before Saied dissolved the chamber in July 2021, was arrested by police at his home in Tunis, the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha said in… Read More

Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal was named a UNCCD Goodwill Ambassador Monday (17 April 2023). He previously served as a UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) Land Ambassador alongside fellow musicians Inna Modja and Ricky Kej. Maal has long been an activist on climate change and refugees. Since 2003, he has been committed to various development challenges in Africa, working… Read More

After a sleepless night as fighting raged, Khartoum residents are cautiously venturing out to buy supplies amid fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitaries. Despite the risk, Farouq Hassan insisted on opening his bakery. “We are trying to work and make ends meet despite the power and water outages,” he told AFP. The few clients hurrying back home for safety. Many… Read More

Fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces raged on for the third day in Sudan on Monday with at least 100 civilians reported dead as gunfire and explosions increased in intensity. The deadly power struggle between the country’s two most powerful generals, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s de facto leader, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commander of… Read More

Acclaimed US jazz pianist, composer, and band leader, Ahmad Jamal, whose career spanned more than seven decades, passed away on Sunday at the age of 92. His wife confirmed his death to the Washington Post while his daughter, Sumayah Jamal, told The New York Times he’d died of prostate cancer. Jamal’s work influenced a generation of musicians including his close… Read More

A glamorous influencer, she is at the heart of a news item that captivates South Africans: the companion of a murderer and serial rapist for a long time on the run, Nandipha Magudumana, a doctor, would have gone so far as to look for a body at the morgue to facilitate his escape. Ten days ago, the dashing 30-something was… Read More