– NEWS – Many people killed in train crash north of Cairo: Eleven people were killed and about 100 injured on Sunday in a train accident in Egypt’s Qalioubia province north of Cairo. Railway authorities say that at least four train wagons ran off the tracks at the city of Banha in the province. The […]
– NEWS – Evidence of possible atrocities in Ethiopia: Almost 2,000 people killed in more than 150 massacres by soldiers, paramilitaries and insurgents in Tigray have been identified by researchers studying the conflict. The oldest victims were in their 90s and the youngest were infants. The US State Department said last week it was looking
– NEWS – Niger coup thwarted days before inauguration: Five days ago, Niger said it thwarted an attempted coup ahead of the inauguration of the next president. Armed attackers tried to seize the presidential palace last Wednesday but were fought off by the presidential guard, sources said. The attackers, reportedly from a nearby airbase, fled
– NEWS – Dozens dead after militant assault on Palma: Dozens of people are dead following an attack by Islamist militants on a town in northern Mozambique, officials say. Hundreds of militants stormed Palma on Wednesday, targeting shops, banks and a military barracks. Seven people were killed trying to escape a siege on a hotel.
– NEWS – New allegations of massacres in Tigray: Almost three weeks ago, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights called for an independent investigation into human rights violations that may amount to war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. A CNN investigation published on Friday revealed a massacre which took place during a religious festival
– NEWS – Ethiopia rejects US allegations of ethnic cleansing in Tigray: Ethiopia on Saturday rejected US allegations there has been ethnic cleansing in Tigray, pushing back against the latest criticism of its military operation in its northern region by the new administration in Washington. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he
– NEWS – Equatorial Guinea rocked by explosions: At least four powerful blasts hit a military camp in Equatorial Guinea’s largest city and main economic hub Bata on Sunday, causing casualties, state television reported. At least 20 people have died and at least 600 have been injured, according to the defense ministry. Many were feared
– NEWS – Negotiations for release of Nigerian schoolgirls: 317 schoolgirls have been abducted in north-west Nigeria, the third mass kidnapping of students in three months in an escalating wave of rural attacks blamed on groups of armed bandits. Officials in Nigeria’s Zamfara state are in touch with the gunmen who abducted the schoolgirls last
– NEWS – Italian ambassador to DR Congo dies in attack on UN convoy: Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, and two other people have been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy in the restive east of the central African country. The convoy from the World Food
– NEWS – Don’t forget Africa when it comes to vaccines: Health activist Dan Owalla has called on the international community to give greater consideration to Africa when it comes to Covid-19 vaccines. Owalla has worked for the non-governmental organization People’s Health Movement in Kenya for eleven years. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that
