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• August 03, 2022

  Med Rescue Charities Call for EU Help

  Three charities operating migrant rescue boats in the central Mediterranean called Wednesday for the EU to resume search and rescue activities, saying they are overwhelmed and warning more people will die.

• August 03, 2022

  Burkina Blockade Raising Hunger

  Inhabitants of a town in northern Burkina Faso whose road access has been cut off by jihadists say that food supplies are running out, an account backed by the medical charity MSF.

• August 02, 2022

  DRC Kills ADF Fighters

  DRC's army said Tuesday it had killed 11 members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, which the Islamic State group claims as its local affiliate, in the east of the country.

• August 02, 2022

  Mali Says "Move Out, Foreign Forces!"

  Mali has ordered a private airline to evict foreign soldiers, including UN troops, from its Bamako airport base following last month's arrest of 49 Ivorian soldiers there.

• August 02, 2022

  MONUSCO Fails at Peacekeeping - Critics

  With an annual budget of over $1 billion, the peacekeeping mission known as MONUSCO has more than 16,000 uniformed personnel, according to UN figures from November 2021. But Many locals view UN peacekeepers -- who arrived in eastern Congo in 1999 -- as standing idle while militias attack them.

• August 02, 2022

  "Restore Tigray Services, Addis" - U.S., EU

  The US and EU envoys for the Horn of Africa on Tuesday urged Ethiopia's government to resume essential services in Tigray after a rare visit to the war-torn region facing dire conditions.

• August 02, 2022

  DRC Reports 36 Anti-UN Deaths

  The Democratic Republic of Congo has said that 36 people, including four United Nations peacekeepers, died during anti-UN protests in the east of the country last week.

• August 02, 2022

  "Prepare Climate 'Endgame' Models" - Scientists

  The world must prepare for a "climate endgame" to better understand and plan for the potentially catastrophic impacts of global heating that governments have yet to consider, scientists warned Tuesday.

• August 02, 2022

  More Migrants Cross Channel

  The UK government said Tuesday that almost 700 migrants and asylum seekers crossed the Channel to Britain in a single day this week, a new record for the year.

• August 02, 2022

  Ethiopia War Eroded Press Freedom - CPJ

  The Committee to Protect Journalists said the war in northern Ethiopia has accelerated the deterioration of press freedom, erasing progress made by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed after he came to power in 2018.

• August 02, 2022

  Finding al-Zawahiri in Kabul

  al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been in hiding for years and the operation to locate and kill him was the result of "careful patient and persistent" work by the counter-terrorism and intelligence community, a senior U.S. administration official has told reporters.

• August 02, 2022

  Kenya Police Worry Rights NGO

  Kenya's failure to hold police accountable for allegedly killing dozens after the 2017 elections heightens the risk of officers abusing their power when the country heads to the polls next week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday.

• August 01, 2022

  Both Senegal Sides Claim Ballot Victory

  The Senegalese opposition on Monday said it had won a "comfortable" majority in legislative elections, shortly after President Macky Sall's ruling coalition also claimed victory.

• August 01, 2022

  Ukraine Gets More Rockets

  Ukraine said Monday it had received more precision rocket systems from the United States and Germany, adding to a growing arsenal of Western long-range artillery Kyiv says is changing dynamics on the battlefield.

• August 01, 2022

  Biden Still COVID Positive but "Feels OK"

  President Joe Biden remains positive for COVID but is feeling well and working in isolation as he deals with a so-called rebound case of the virus, his doctor said Monday.

• August 01, 2022

  South Africa Shocked Over Alleged Gang Rape

  More than 80 people arrested following a gang-rape of eight South African women appeared before a court on Monday, as the police minister described the assault as the "shame of the nation".

• August 01, 2022

  South Africa Power Protest Leaves One Dead

  A man was killed in a police shooting during protests over the cost of electricity in a South African township on Monday, the police watchdog said.

• August 01, 2022

  Tebboune Suggests Algeria Join BRICS

  Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has suggested that his country, Africa's largest natural gas exporter, could join the BRICS economic group that includes Russia and China.

• August 01, 2022

  Libya Blast Kills At Least Six

  At least six people were killed and dozens injured on Monday when a fuel truck exploded in southwestern Libya, medics said.

• August 01, 2022

  Beni Scene of More Anti-UN Turmoil

  Soldiers fired warning shots to disperse protesters approaching a UN peacekeepers' base in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, an AFP correspondent saw, a day after two people were killed by members of the UN force.

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