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Sudan’s warring sides target local aid volunteers fighting famine

Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan’s most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides are making it difficult to provide life-saving aid amid the world’s biggest hunger crisis. Many volunteers have fled under threat of arrest or violence, and communal kitchens they set up in a…
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October 9, 2024
Sudan’s war to intensify as rainy season draws to a close

After almost 18 months of war, fighting in Sudan is escalating as seasonal rains end with the army using intensified airstrikes and allied fighters to shore up its position ahead of a likely surge by the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF). An uptick in fighting will aggravate an already dire humanitarian crisis in which famine…
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October 5, 2024
Shots fired into Democratic campaign office in Arizona

Shots were fired into Vice President Harris’ campaign office in Tempe, Arizona, on Monday, but no one was injured, her campaign confirmed to panafrican.email Why it matters: Political threats have become an undertone of the presidential election cycle, with assassination attempts against former President Trump and violent rhetoric. “We are grateful to Tempe Police for…
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September 26, 2024
Ethiopia plagued by abductions ‘epidemic’

Many regions of Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, with around 120 million inhabitants, are plagued by kidnappings since the end of the brutal two-year civil war between the government and rebel forces in the northern region of Tigray. That conflict largely ended with a peace agreement in November 2022, but armed rebellions have worsened…
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September 19, 2024
Comoros president injured in knife attack

Comoros President Azali Assoumani has been wounded in a knife attack, the authorities say. He was stabbed while attending a religious leader’s funeral near the capital Moroni but was only “slightly injured” and has since returned home, spokeswoman Fatima Ahamada told the Reuters news agency. The attacker had been arrested but the motive for the…
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September 14, 2024
Uganda’s Bobi Wine injured by policeman – aide

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has been injured in the leg in a confrontation with a policeman in uniform, according to his personal assistant Najja Ssenyonjo said the pop star-turned-politician was believed to have been shot and was currently receiving treatment at Nsambya Hospital in the capital, Kampala. He said the incident had occurred while…
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September 5, 2024
The First Batch of Kenyan Police , arrive in Haiti

A second contingent of the Kenya-led multinational policing mission in Haiti will arrive “in the coming weeks,” Prime Minister Garry Conille told AFP on Tuesday. “It will happen very quickly. We can already see in the coming weeks that we will have a second contingent,” Conille said in an interview in Washington, where he is…
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July 3, 2024
Woman mayor shot dead in Mexico

🇲🇽 The mayor of a town in western Mexico was killed on Monday, the regional government said, barely 24 hours after Claudia Sheinbaum was elected the Latin American country’s first woman president. The Michoacan state government condemned “the murder of the municipal president (mayor) of Cotija, Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa,” the regional interior ministry said in…
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June 5, 2024
They went to school but ended up as hostages. 287 children are missing in Nigeria’s forests

ABUJA, Nigeria (PA) — Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria’s northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children abducted from their school by motorcycle-riding gunmen in the latest mass kidnapping, which analysts and activists blamed on the failure of intelligence and a slow security response. The abduction of the 287 children in…
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March 10, 2024
Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport as thousands escape prisons: “Massacring people indiscriminately”

Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons. Hours after the airport assault, officials said Haiti’s police academy came under attack by an…
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March 6, 2024