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Tanzania Denies Claims Of Wildlife Smuggling To UAE
Tanzania airports regulator has denied allowing the smuggling of wildlife from a park in the northern region to Middle East countries.
It follows claims on social media that the wild animals were being trafficked on cargo planes from…
Mali Cancels Flights To Timbuktu After Shelling
Flights from the Malian capital, Bamako, to the northern cities of Timbuktu and Gao have been cancelled due to insecurity.
Several shells landed near Timbuktu airport on Monday.
A United Nations camp was hit.
Malian authorities on…
Libya: Flood, storm Daniel kill at least 150
Hundreds of people are feared dead in eastern Libya after heavy flooding caused by Storm Daniel swept away entire neighbourhoods and wrecked homes in multiple coastal towns, with the city of Derna “cut off completely” following the bursting…
Sudan: Airstrikes kill over 40 in Khartoum market
Air strikes on an open market south of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, killed at least 46 people, activists and a medical group said.
Over 50 others were wounded in the attack in Khartoum’s May neighbourhood, where paramilitary forces…
Moroccan earthquake survivors seek more help from authorities
A woman in tears, not much is left of the village of Imine Tala, in Morocco's southwest, following Friday's earthquake.
With little aid from authorities, villagers on Sunday only rely on themselves for search and rescue operations.…
Gabonese PM unveils transitional government officials
Gabon's military leader, General Brice Oligui Nguema has unveiled his transitional government consisting of representatives from diverse political backgrounds.
Gabon's transitional Prime Minister, Raymond Ndong Sima, unveiled the…
Senegalese PM official candidate for Presidential Elections 2024
Senegalese President Macky Sall officially nominated his Prime Minister, Amadou Ba, as the candidate representing his party in the upcoming February 2024 presidential election. This significant announcement was jointly made by the…
Moroccan Earthquake not a surprise but infrequent- expert
Morocco has been struck by its most lethal earthquake in decades, resulting in the tragic loss of over 2,000 lives.
According to Professor David Rothery, an expert in Planetary Geosciences at the Open University, the earthquake is not a…
Niger: ‘French Forces Will Be Redeploy Only At Bazoum’s Request’
Niger's military regime accused France of deploying forces in several West African countries with a view to military intervention.
Relations with France, Niger's former colonial power, degraded swiftly after Paris stood by ousted…
Ethiopia Completes Filling Of Nile Renaissance Mega-Dam
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia announced the successful completion of the fourth and final filling of the Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile, on Sunday.
The dam has been the source of regional tensions with downstream Egypt and…