More than 60 people are believed to have died after a migrant boat from Senegal was found off West Africa’s Cape Verde islands, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday.Sixty-three people are thought to have died, while the 38 survivors included four children aged 12 to 16, IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli told AFP.The long …
A prominent radio station in Sierra Leone went off air Wednesday shortly before a pre-recorded interview with the US ambassador highlighting concerns about the general election was due to be broadcast.Radio Democracy 98.1 temporarily went off the airwaves during Wednesday’s breakfast programme, when an interview with US Ambassador David Reimer, recorded a day earlier, was …
Tripoli’s worst armed clashes in a year have killed 55 people and wounded 146, Libyan media reported Wednesday, after a truce took hold in the capital and air traffic resumed.Fighting raged from Monday night into Tuesday between the influential 444 Brigade and the Al-Radaa, or Special Deterrence Force, two of the myriad of militias that …
Truce holds in Libya after clashes kill 55Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:44:29 GMT Read More »
Political figures and members of DR Congo’s civil society on Wednesday called for the authorities to scrap emergency measures in two eastern provinces plagued by armed groups.North Kivu and Ituri provinces have been under a “state of siege” since May 2021 under a government initiative aimed at fast-tracking security measures against the groups.Under it, senior …
Calls mount in DR Congo to scrap emergency measures in eastWed, 16 Aug 2023 15:42:10 GMT Read More »
Gun battles between two leading armed groups in the Libyan capital Tripoli have killed 27 people and wounded 106, medics said Wednesday, as a tentative truce took hold.The clashes between the influential 444 Brigade and the Al-Radaa, or Special Deterrence Force, two of the myriad of militias that have vied for power since the overthrow …
Kenya’s debt level has reached record highs despite President William Ruto’s vow to tame the country’s appetite for loans, treasury figures show.Total public debt rose by a record 1.56 trillion shillings ($10.8 billion)Â in the financial year ended June 30 to 10.1 trillion shillings ($70.75 billion), breaching a debt ceiling of 10 trillion shillings, according to …
Kenya’s debt rises to historic high: treasuryWed, 16 Aug 2023 10:20:31 GMT Read More »
For desperate Syrians, a WhatsApp message saying “I want to go to Europe” can be all they need to start a treacherous journey to Libya and then across the Mediterranean.Twelve years after conflict broke out when President Bashar al-Assad repressed peaceful pro-democracy protests, Syrians are still trying to escape a war that has killed more …
Syria to Libya to the EU: how people-smugglers operateWed, 16 Aug 2023 07:09:34 GMT Read More »
Gun battles between two leading armed groups in the Libyan capital Tripoli have killed 27 people and wounded 106, a toll update from the Emergency Medicine Centre said Wednesday.The centre, which provides emergency services in the west of Tripoli, published the “provisional” toll on its Facebook page overnight.The clashes between the influential 444 Brigade and …
Hundreds of Tunisians joined an interfaith ceremony outside the capital where the sermons urged tolerance in the face of rising anti-immigrant sentiment. During the Feast of the Assumption ceremony in Tunis’ La Goulette suburb on Tuesday, Catholic and Muslim participants marched behind a Madonna statue as it was carried to the town hall. There, the archbishop of …
Rights campaigners have urged Tanzania to release three people, including a former legislator, saying they could face treason charges for criticising a deal with an Emirati company to manage the country’s ports.Amnesty International said Willibrod Slaa — a former parliamentarian and diplomat — and two activists were arrested at the weekend after speaking out publicly …
