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A nighttime curfew has been declared in four Chadian cities after the military violently repressed banned protests took place on Thursday (20 October), killing at least 60 people, injuring nearly 300. Security forces opened fire on demonstrators in the country’s two largest cities after hundreds across Chad took to the streets to demand a quicker […]
Botswana has expressed concern over an influx of asylum seekers who fled from countries, including 700 refugees from neighboring Zimbabwe and hundreds more from South Africa, where they had already been granted refugee status. Those who have arrived from neighboring Zimbabwe were citing poor conditions at the refugee camp, while others have come from South […]
Morocco has pledged to defend the African Islands at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) due in Sharm Sheikh, Egypt, from 6 to 18 November 2022. The announcement was made Tuesday by Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita in a speech made via videoconference during a ministerial meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the […]
The heavy flooding in Nigeria, which has covered farms and roads and slowed shipments of food and fuel, has now displaced more than 1 million people from their homes, with the death toll already surpassing 600. The country’s authorities are struggling to free up the gridlock, as a jump in prices is already making life […]
France Football Magazine awarded Monday the Senegalese forward of Bayern Munich the Socrates Prize for his charity work in his home country. “The Socrates Prize identifies the best social initiative by committed champions,” said a statement from France Football magazine. The French weekly sport magazine has added the humanitarian award to the global iconic 2022 […]
A three-week lockdown has been imposed in Uganda’s two central region districts to curb the spread of Ebola, which has killed 19 people since the first death nearly a month ago. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced on Saturday (15 October) he has ordered the lockdown to restrict movements into and out of Mubende and Kassanda, […]
Morocco was elected to two key positions within the organization United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG-World) during he 7th World Congress of the international organization, which took place this October 10 – 14 in the South Korean city of Daejeon. The mayor of Rabat, Asmaa Rhlalou, was elected treasurer of the organization, while Mohamed Sefiani, […]
Cameroon and Nigeria have requested to join the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI), a joint body spearheading the interests of the two countries in the Cocoa trade — if both countries are admitted, the initiative will represent about two-thirds of global Cocoa production. The initiative was set up after a 2018 declaration by Ivory Coast […]
The Mohammed VI Foundation of African Ulema holds its fourth ordinary annual session in Fez, this October 19 – 20. Some 250 theologians, members of the Supreme Council of Ulema and representing the 34 sections of the Foundation, are expected to take part in the event. This ordinary session features the presentation by the Secretariat […]
The new Ebola outbreak in Uganda has killed 19 people while five medical staff members that contracted the virus have recovered and been discharged from an isolation unit, the Ministry of Health in Kampala said Tuesday (11 October). According to the country’s health minister Jane Ruth Aceng, five affected districts have seen “54 cumulative confirmed […]