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November 28, 2023
Lift plunge kills 11 at South Africa platinum mine
November 28, 2023
Niger coup leaders repeal law against migrant smuggling
November 27, 2023
Sierra Leone lifts curfew imposed after prison breakout
November 26, 2023
Sierra Leone under curfew after inmates freed from Freetown’s Pademba Road Prison
MOGADISHU — The number of people killed by floods from heavy rains in Somalia has risen to 96, state news agency SONNA said on Saturday.“Somalia’s flood death toll climbs to 96,” SONNA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, adding the figure had been confirmed by Mahamuud Moallim, the head of the country’s disaster management agency.Like the rest of east and Horn of Africa, Somalia has been battered by relentless heavy rains that began in October, caused by the El Nino and Indian Ocean Dipole weather phenomena.Heavy rains and flash floods across the country have affected 706,100 people, while 113,690 displaced from their homes.The Federal and State level authorities are urgently evacuating people and attending to critical WASH needs with support of UN and other international...
November 26, 2023
Death toll from flooding in Somalia climbs to nearly 100
November 25, 2023
Pistorius to be released on parole as Reeva’s mother warns he has not been rehabilitated after murder
GENEVA — Humanitarians are urgently scaling up aid in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where an escalating crisis is again unfolding, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday.Violent clashes between non-state armed groups and government forces have displaced more than 450,000 people in the last six weeks in Rutshuru and Masisi territories in North Kivu province.People arriving in the town of Sake, located near the provincial capital Goma, spoke of having to make harrowing choices, with men risking death to feed starving children and women risking rape to collect firewood.UNHCR said its monitoring in the region has showed over 3,000 reported human rights violations in October, nearly double the figure from the previous...
November 25, 2023
Clashes in eastern DR Congo displace 450,000 in six weeks
November 23, 2023
Blue whales: Ocean giants return to 'safe' tropical haven
BRAZZAVILLE — At least 37 people have died in a stampede during an army recruitment drive at a stadium in Congo-Brazzaville, the government has said.Some people tried to force their way through stadium’s gates in the capital, Brazzaville, causing the stampede, residents have been quoted as saying.Last week, the army announced plans to recruit about 1,500 people between the ages of 18 and 25.Many people were injured in the crush, a government statement said.It did not give a number, but said that a “crisis unit” has been set up, the AFP news agency reports.According to the Associated Press agency, as many as 700 people a day have been registering over the last week at recruitment centers.Youth unemployment is at around 42% in Congo-Brazzaville, with many young people seeing the army...
November 21, 2023
Dozens killed in stampede during Congo-Brazzaville army recruitment drive
November 20, 2023
Gripped by drought, this French island is running out of drinking water
