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The attacks targeted a passenger boat on the Niger River near Timbuktu and an army base in Bamba.
Dozens of civilians among 64 killed in Mali attacks
TIMBUKTU — Two attacks by suspected militants in restive northeastern Mali Thursday killed 64 people including dozens of civilians, the country’s transitional government said.The attacks targeted a passenger boat on the Niger River near Timbuktu and an army base in Bamba, in the northern Gao region, killing 49 civilians and 15 soldiers, according to the interim government’s statement.It was not immediately clear how many people died in each attack.The Malian Army said an “armed terrorist group” attacked the passenger boat at 11 a.m. local time near Rharous Cercle in the Timbuktu region.The attacks were claimed by Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM), a militant group associated with al Qaeda, the government said.Authorities declared three days of national mourning in the...
September 08, 2023

Dozens of civilians among 64 killed in Mali attacks

Most of the victims were women, reportedly sex workers
Suspected Rwandan serial killer arrested after bodies found in kitchen
KIGALI — Rwandan police have arrested a 34-year-old suspected serial killer who is alleged to have murdered more than 10 people and buried them in the kitchen.Police discovered the crime after the man was evicted from his rented accommodation in Kicukiro, a suburb of the capital, Kigali.They were called after the suspect had defaulted on rent payments for months.A police officer told local media the victims appeared to have been sex workers. They included men and women.Murder is relatively uncommon in Rwanda and this case has shocked the country.An unnamed police official told Rwanda's private newspaper The New Times that the man had put up a fight when officers went to evict him on Monday."He apologized and cried excessively, which raised our suspicions. It is at the police...
September 07, 2023

Suspected Rwandan serial killer arrested after bodies found in kitchen

Ali Bongo Ondimba, makes a statement after his country's military seized power on August 30
Gabon’s ousted leader free and is allowed to travel abroad, junta says
LIBREVILLE — The military leaders who staged a coup in Gabon have freed ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba and he is now allowed to travel abroad, a junta spokesperson said Wednesday.Bongo has reportedly been held in house arrest since the coup in the Central African nation in late August.“Given his state of health, the former President of the Republic Ali Bongo Ondimba is free to move about. He may, if he wishes, travel abroad to receive medical check-ups,” junta spokesperson Col. Ulrich Manfoumbi said on state television, reading a statement from transitional leader Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema.State television also released images showing Bongo greeting Abdou Abarry, head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa, at Bongo’s residence in the capital Libreville.The...
September 07, 2023

Gabon’s ousted leader free and is allowed to travel abroad, junta says

UN Secretary General António Guterres addresses leaders at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya. — courtesy UN Photo
Guterres leads call to make Africa ‘renewable energy superpower’
NAIROBI, Kenya — The flame of injustice is “scorching hopes and possibilities” across Africa as the world grapples with the climate crisis, with the continent suffering some of the worst impacts of global warming said the UN chief on Tuesday.Secretary-General António Guterres was addressing the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, noting that despite “extreme heat, ferocious floods, and tens of thousands dead from devastating droughts”, the continent was responsible for less than four percent of emissions.“The blow inflicted on development is all around with growing hunger and displacement”, he said.But amid the “climate chaos” he said it was still possible to avoid the worst, “but only with a quantum leap in climate action.”He said far greater climate ambition...
September 06, 2023

Guterres leads call to make Africa ‘renewable energy superpower’

Food is distributed by WFP at Adre refugee camp in Chad. — courtesy WFP/Julian Civiero
Urgent call for $1 billion to support millions fleeing Sudan conflict
GENEVA — The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, and 64 humanitarian and national civil society organizations on Monday appealed for $1 billion to provide essential aid and protection to more than 1.8 million people fleeing the ongoing conflict in Sudan who are expected to arrive in five neighboring countries by the end of 2023.Since the crisis began when rival military groups clashed in mid-April, projections of growing numbers of people trying to escape fighting have sharply spiked upwards.“The crisis has triggered an urgent demand for humanitarian assistance, as those arriving in remote border areas find themselves in desperate circumstances due to inadequate services, poor infrastructure and limited access,” said Mamadou Dian Balde, UNHCR Regional Bureau Director for the East and Horn of...
September 05, 2023

Urgent call for $1 billion to support millions fleeing Sudan conflict

Morocco jet ski tourists were warned before shooting, Algeria says
ALGIERS — The Algerian authorities have said a group of tourists who strayed into their waters from Morocco on jet skis were warned before they were shot at.Two men were killed last week after an altercation with the Algerian coastguard.In its first comment on the incident, the Algerian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the tourists defied an order to stop “several times”.However, a survivor has disputed this — saying they were never cautioned.“I only heard gunshots directly that killed my brother Bilal,” Mohamed Kissi told the Reuters news agency.The group had set off on jet skis from the Moroccan resort of Saidia on Tuesday when they were shot.In an earlier interview with French television network BFM, Kissi described how they had got lost as night fell, and realized they...
September 04, 2023

Morocco jet ski tourists were warned before shooting, Algeria says

General Nguema is said to be a cousin of the president he toppled
Gabon coup leader Brice Nguema being sworn in as president
LIBREVILLE — Brice Nguema, the leader of Gabon's military junta, is being sworn in as the nation's interim president.General Nguema led last Wednesday's coup against Ali Bongo, toppling the president shortly after he was named winner of a disputed election.The general has some popular support - crowds of cheering civilians turned up at his inauguration.However, there are concerns Gen Nguema's rule will be a continuation of the 55-year Bongo dynasty.Ali Bongo's father, Omar, was in power for 41 years before he died in 2009 and was succeeded by his son.The general spent most his career in the Bongo's inner circle and is even thought to be Ali Bongo's cousin.They also warn that that the military shows no sign of handing back power.Sympathisers of the military...
September 04, 2023

Gabon coup leader Brice Nguema being sworn in as president

Cash distribution to displaced people in Balléyara, Niger. — courtesy WFP Niger
IOM calls for humanitarian corridor in Niger to help stranded migrants
GENEVA — The UN migration agency (IOM) called on Friday for the setting up of a humanitarian corridor in Niger to enable voluntary returns of stranded migrants, after July’s military takeover triggered border & airspace closuresIOM Regional Director Christopher Gascon told reporters in Geneva that 4,800 migrants were hosted by IOM at seven transit centers in the country, awaiting voluntary return. They were primarily from western Africa: Mali, Guinea, Senegal and Nigeria, he said.Gascon said airport access was crucial to “organize charter flights in order to return people home”.He stressed that IOM’s transit centers were currently 40 percent over capacity and an additional 1,400 migrants outside the centers needed help.Gascon added that setting up a corridor would also facilitate...
September 03, 2023

IOM calls for humanitarian corridor in Niger to help stranded migrants

Mourners attend the funeral of Bilal Kissi in Saidia, on Thursday. — courtesy AFP
Jet ski Moroccan tourist describes being shot at off Algerian coast
RABAT — A Moroccan man has described how the Algerian coastguard opened fire on him and three other tourists who had strayed into Algerian waters.Mohamed Kissi was the only survivor to make it back. His brother and a friend were killed and another friend is said to be in Algerian custody.“They charged, then began to shoot behind us,” Kissi told French television network BFM. Morocco has opened an investigation and there has been no comment from Algeria.The two nations have a long history of tension, tied to Morocco’s claims to the disputed territory of Western Sahara.The border between them was closed in 1994, with Algiers severing diplomatic ties two years ago. It accused Morocco of hostile acts — an allegation rejected by Rabat.The party of four on two jet skis had set off from...
September 02, 2023

Jet ski Moroccan tourist describes being shot at off Algerian coast

Youth gather in Karura forest, Nairobi, in solidarity with the global climate youth marches in March 2019. — courtesy UNEP
African children bearing the brunt of climate change impacts
GENEVA — Children in Africa are among the most at risk from climate change impacts but are being woefully deprived of the financing necessary to help them adapt, survive and respond to the crisis, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report on Friday.It was released as leaders prepare to meet for the African Climate Summit, taking place next week in Nairobi, Kenya.Children in 48 out of 49 African countries assessed were found to be at high or extremely high risk of the impacts of climate change, based on their exposure and vulnerability to cyclones, heatwaves and other climate and environmental shocks, and access to essential services.Those living in the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Guinea, Somalia and Guinea-Bissau are most at risk.Despite this, the report found...
September 02, 2023

African children bearing the brunt of climate change impacts

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