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[ad_1] DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s government temporarily suspended mobile phone data on Sunday as the country reels from days of deadly clashes between police and...
[ad_1] NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Pretty Peter flicked through frantic messages from friends at home in Uganda. The transgender woman is relatively safe in neighboring Kenya....
[ad_1] Announcement comes a week after al-Shabab fighters stormed a base housing African Union peacekeepers in Somalia. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced the deaths of...
[ad_1] The number of people killed after days of clashes between Senegalese police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has now risen to 15, including...
[ad_1] In this feature, part of a series exploring the fight against trafficking in the Sahel, UN News focuses on the illegal fuel trade in the...
[ad_1] Fake or substandard antimalarial medicines kill as many as 267,000 sub-Saharan Africans every year. Credit: Mercedes Sayagues/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, June 02, 2023 Inter...
[ad_1] While poor maternal outcomes among Black women in the U.S. is not new, improving it is imperative. U.S. policymakers can look to sub-Saharan Africa for...
[ad_1] Mombasa, Kenya CNN — The leader of a Christian cult who has been accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves appeared in court in...
[ad_1] Members of the Rastafari religion and political movement have for decades been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic use of marijuana. But the tiny islands...
[ad_1] DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Clashes between police and supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko left nine people dead, the government said Friday, with authorities...
[ad_1] Johannesburg — The foreign ministers of the five nations of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa, were meeting...
[ad_1] The number fleeing violence in Sudan since fighting between rival militaries began in mid-April in Khartoum, quickly destabilizing the entire country, has now topped 100,000....
[ad_1] Armed with a bamboo ink pen and a steady hand, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copied text in the ancient Ge’ez language from a...
[ad_1] President Touadera has been accused of seeking tenure elongation despite constitutional limits of two four-year terms. President Faustin-Archange Touadera has set July 30 as the...
[ad_1] Student evacuees from Sudan wait to return to Nigeria. Credit: Handout by Abdullahi Jimoh (abuja) Tuesday, May 30, 2023 Inter Press Service ABUJA, May 30 (IPS)...
[ad_1] WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe, told reporters in Geneva that in a major breakthrough, the agency distributed food assistance to 15,000 people in...
[ad_1] Dr Paul Kinoti at the JKUAT snail farm, where he is researching the potential of snail slime cough syrup. Credit: Wilson Odhiambo/IPS by Wilson Odhiambo (nairobi)...
[ad_1] “I can’t think of a better way than using food to bring everyone to the table,” said Elroi Yee, an investigative reporter and producer of...
[ad_1] Period poverty, or the inability to afford menstrual products, is a serious issue especially in developing countries, an issue menstruating girls and women grapple with...
[ad_1] This feature, which focuses on the illegal trade in substandard and fake medicines, is part of a UN News series exploring the fight against trafficking...