Tag: Guardian Africa
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 Mogadishu · ⚔️ Somalia · 📍 Guardian Africa More than 6.5 million Somalis have been pushed to the brink of severe hunger as the climate crisis, fighting and cuts in aid leave a trail of despairFor three years, Zeynab Ibrahim watched as her little town shrivelled up and died. The rains…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 Nigeria (approximate area) · ⚔️ Nigeria · 📍 Guardian Africa Families have been left in despair after 39 pupils and seven teachers were kidnapped from classrooms in Oyo state, a part of the country previously considered relatively peacefulSitting on a wooden bench under the tree near her home, Aduke Balogun’s gaze…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 Mogadishu · ⚔️ Somalia · 🪖 Guardian Africa Violence flares before protests on Thursday over president’s decision to remain in office after his term expiredFierce clashes have taken place between government troops and militias allied with the opposition in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee.In the…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · ⚔️ Guardian Africa Islamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinicsRebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 Mozambique (approximate area) · ⚔️ Mozambique · ⚔️ Guardian Africa About 800 Mozambicans said to be caught up in violence in Mossel Bay as anti-immigration protests sweep countryFive Mozambique nationals were killed in “xenophobic attacks” in South Africa at the weekend, the Mozambican government said – the first deaths officially linked…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Guardian Africa Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for ceasefire among armed groups to help avoid deaths from preventable diseaseThe death rate of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is between 30% and 50%, the World Health Organization has said,…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Guardian Africa There have been arson attacks on Ebola treatment centres in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, exposing the anger in a region beset by violence linked to armed rebel groups. Authorities say the number of suspected cases of Ebola has…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 World (approximate area) · ⚔️ Other Conflicts · 📍 Guardian Africa More than 20,000 attacks on markets, farmland and food distribution systems have been recorded since 2018Hunger is being increasingly exploited as a weapon of war with more than 20,000 documented incidents of “food-related violence” in the past eight years, new…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 World (approximate area) · ⚔️ Other Conflicts · ⚔️ Guardian Africa Threat of jihadism continues to lurk along borders with Mali and Burkina FasoThese days, when she is not organising the annual International Day of Reggae celebrations in Côte d’Ivoire, Rose Ebirim picks up litter scattered on the beach in the…
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Image: Guardian Africa 📍 DR Congo (approximate area) · ⚔️ Congo · 📍 Guardian Africa At least 130 people thought to have been killed, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus before emergency meeting‘It’s heartbreaking’: panic in eastern DRC over return of EbolaThe director general of the World Health Organization has said he is deeply concerned about the…