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A young boy holds a poster with a photo of former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Nelson Mandela, during Mandela Day, commemorating Mandela’s birthday and his initiative against poverty, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday. — AFP

July 20, 2017

World marks Mandela Day

JOHANNESBURG — People around the world celebrated Mandela Day on Tuesday (July 18). The day remembers South African leader’s achievements in working toward conflict resolution, democracy, human rights, peace, and reconciliation.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, and the country’s first democratically elected president in a fully representative democratic election. His main focus was ...

A crocodile that was captured from a lagoon and temporarily kept in a zoo, is seen being transported to be released in a national park, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. - Reuters

July 19, 2017

Abidjan waterside boom spurs new demand: Crocodile removal

ABIDJAN - "It's not my first time," fireman Patrick Obite said with an air of confidence as, kneeling, he straddled a meter-long crocodile in the car park of a building site in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan."There was a first session yesterday at the zoo when we got used to them," he added, smiling.Africa's fastest growing economy, Ivory Coast, is now in the midst of a construction boom that is ...

Abbas Yusuf, 23, known as Hyena Man, feeds a hyena on the outskirts of the walled city of Harar, Ethiopia. - Reuters

July 19, 2017

Hyenas spark admiration, not fear, in Ethiopia's Harar city

HARAR, Ethiopia - Hyenas roam the streets of the ancient walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia every night, seeking scraps of meat to drag to the nearby caves.But residents are not afraid. A family chosen by the town to feed the animals is not daunted by the task despite the dangers that are associated with coming into close quarters with such wild animals.Abbas Yusuf, known as Hyena Man, learnt ...

People look at the scene after a wall collapsed at Demba Diop stadium in Dakar after a football game between local teams Ouakam and Stade de Mbour on Saturday. — AFP

July 17, 2017

Senegal suspends sports events after 8 killed in soccer stampede

DAKAR — Senegal on Sunday suspended all sports and cultural events until elections at the end of the month, a day after eight people died in a football stadium disaster.Legislative elections are due on July 30 and tensions are running high with prominent opposition leader and Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall campaigning from jail.“All sporting and cultural activities are banned across the national territory for the rest of the electoral campaign,” ...

July 16, 2017

Eight dead in Senegal stadium crush: official media

Dakar — Eight people were killed during Senegal's football league final in Dakar on Saturday in a stampede that broke out following clashes at the end of the match, the official APS news agency said.A wall collapsed at Demba Diop stadium as people attempted to leave after the game between local teams Ouakam and Stade de Mbour, APS reported, adding many more were injured.Police fired tear gas at clashing supporters ...

An elderly woman from the Ilchamus community sits outside her shelter at a camp for the internally displaced at Eldume, near the administrative town of Marigat, Baringo county where more than 700 Ilchamus took shelter after fleeing deadly attacks by bandits alleged to be from the Pokot community at their former settlement of Mukutani in March. — AFP

July 15, 2017

Politics not pasture drives violence in Kenya's heart

FOOTSTEPS came first, then unfamiliar voices, the smell of cow dung and the kicking in of the front door.Suddenly awake, John Mbogo wrapped his 11-year-old daughter Tabitha in his arms and rolled under the bed. His wife, Anne, crawled next to them, eyes wide.Torchlight fell on the now empty beds and they saw naked legs smeared in manure, a "shuka" blanket rolled at the waist and the muzzle of a ...

July 12, 2017

19 killed in Boko Haram attacks in Nigerian city

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Four Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 19 people in a series of attacks that targeted a civilian self-defense force and the people who gathered to mourn their deaths, police in Nigeria said on Wednesday. It was the deadliest attack in months in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram’s eight-year insurgency.Borno state police commissioner Damian Chukwu said 23 others were wounded in Tuesday night’s ...

July 9, 2017

Militants behead nine in attack on Kenya village

NAIROBI, Kenya — Al-Shabaab extremists from neighboring Somalia beheaded nine civilians in an early-morning attack on a village in the southeast, Kenyan officials said on Saturday, as concerns grew that the group had taken up a bloody new strategy.The attack occurred in Jima village in Lamu County, said James Ole Serian, who leads a task force of security agencies combating Al-Shabaab.Beheadings by Al-Shabaab have been rare in Kenya, where the ...

Gladys Mutisya at her desk at the sacco in Wajir, Kenya.

July 8, 2017

Islamic finance cushions Kenyans against drought

HAMARA HUJALE tries to keep an eye on two squirming children and a pot of simmering ugali — a white doughy dish — as she reaches for her buzzing phone.After speaking a few words, she hangs up and scribbles in a wrinkled notebook."My driver has found another customer so won't be back for another 30 minutes," she says with a satisfied smile.Hujale, who lives in the northeast Kenyan town of ...

A technician puts together a prosthetic limb at the Physical Rehabilitation and Reference Center in Juba, South Sudan. - Reuters

July 4, 2017

Hospital cum factory delivers limbs and new life in South Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Solomon was just seven years old when he woke up missing a leg.And he was one of the lucky ones.For weeks later, Solomon was back on two feet with the aid of an artificial leg, fitted at a hectic hospital cum limb-making factory in the South Sudanese capital of Juba.The hospital is in horribly high demand in a country born of war that remains littered with ...

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