Nous avons la douleur d'annoncer que notre reporter Arman Soldin a été tué aujourd'hui près de Bakhmout, en Ukraine. Toutes nos pensées vont à sa famille et à ses proches.
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🆘 ~100 people off the coast of #Libya in urgent distress!
This morning we were called by ~100 people on a rubber boat. They said their boat is sinking and fear the worst. So far, we couldn’t reach the so-called Libyan Coastguard on any of their numbers.
Send rescue now!
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blocked from travelling again
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#BREAKING: Mogadishu airport authorities blocked @sjs_Somalia SG @Cabdalleaxmed from traveling outside the country today. Abdalle who was freed on Sunday has been feeling unwell and was planning to see his doctor in Nairobi.
No explanation was provided.
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#BREAKING: Mogadishu airport authorities blocked SG from traveling outside the country today. Abdalle who was freed on Sunday has been feeling unwell and was planning to see his doctor in Nairobi.
No explanation was provided.
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NTV journalist reports that police in the Nairobi CBD demanded deletion of photos taken and destroyed the reporter's press card.
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The protest today is more intense than last Monday. Police have arrested journalists, blocked coverage, and goons have stolen camera's and destroyed vehicles. #MaandamanoMondays
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BREAKING: Al-Shabaab gunmen have seized Eastern end of the Villa Rosa hotel in Mogadishu, engaging in an exchange of fire with security forces. Several ministers, lawmakers and civilians have been rescued.
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Gangs of cybercriminals are expanding across Africa, investigators say
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MOGADISHU ATTACK:
➡️ Gunmen have stormed popular mostly frequented by government officials.
➡️ Two blasts and gunfire heard
➡️ Senior government officials are trapped inside the hotel.
More details to follow.
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 106 of The Continent
Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda called his parents in August to say he was out of prison, two years into a nine-year jail term in Moscow.
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Bill Gates has pledged to use 5.4% of his net worth to finance Africa's health and agriculture sectors.
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Kenyan grandmother at school with her great-great-grandchildren #ripPriscillaSitienei
"We are thankful for the 100 years of her life. She made all of us proud.”
Kenya's Priscilla Sitienei, who was thought to be the world's oldest school pupil, has died peacefully at home at the age of 100.
👉🏾 bbc.in/3EHLlE8
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🔴 Minister of State for Armed Forces and Veterans is making a statement on the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Mali.
Watch live ⬇️
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Zambia's foreign minister has said Zambian student Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda, 23, who had been jailed in Russia, was killed in fighting in Ukraine, and demanded an explanation from the Kremlin.
bit.ly/3ErMSyb | #VisionUpdates
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A 23-year-old Zambian student, Lemekhani Nathan, was killed in September in the Russia-Ukraine war. He had been serving a 9-year prison sentence in a Russian prison. Zambia is demanding to know how he ended up on the frontline, apparently fighting alongside Russian troops.
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Mining company Glencore Energy UK has been ordered to pay millions over Africa oil bribes.
More here 👉🏾 bbc.in/3zFKqRM
📸: Getty Images
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Students in Nigeria returning to school after ASUU strike are vulnerable to abductions. Today on #TheCrisisRoom, we have a conversation with Mr Muhammed Ashraf, who had to pay a ransom to secure the release of his younger sister.
humanglemedia.com/abduction-tren
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A matriach has rested 🐘
We are saddened by the death of Dida who was possibly Africa’s largest female Tusker and a Matriarch residing in National Park. She died from natural causes due to old age having lived a full life to about 60-65 years old.
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Ever wonder how Russian cruise missiles find their way into Ukrainian playgrounds, power stations, and apartment buildings? Well thanks to ’s wonder no more. It’s time to meet the team behind the targeting of Russian missiles on civilian infrastructure.
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Uganda is currently tackling an outbreak of one of the world’s deadliest diseases – Ebola.
Here we explain everything you need to know about the virus, including the symptoms, how people catch it and how to stop it spreading.
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BREAKING: At least 10 Burkina Faso soldiers died and around 50 were injured on Monday in an attack in the northern city of Djibo, the army said.
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Representatives of the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces arrived in South Africa on Monday for their first formal peace talks, a much-anticipated effort to resolve the almost two-year civil war that has ravaged Africa’s second-most-populous nation
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Al-Shabaab gunmen a short while ago stormed Tawakal Hotel in the centre of the Somali port city of Kismayo, shortly after an explosives-packed car exploded at its gates. Officials say gunmen are still inside the hotel.
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BREAKING: Security forces in Kismayo urge residents to stay calm as they battle militants holed up in a hotel. At least one person has far been confirmed dead.
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#Jubaland Police deputy chief Mohamed Nasi Guled calls #Kismayo residents calmness, estimating Tawakal Hotel attackers as three; vowed security forces will shortly bring terrorists' dead bodies out. #Somalia
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BREAKING: Several gunmen stormed a hotel in Kismayo town, engaging in an exchange of fire with the security forces. Sunday's attack started with a suicide explosion. Kismayo, a port town in Lower Jubba region, lies some 500 km south of Somali capital Mogadishu.
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"The Maasai do not protect nature or wildlife for the sake of financial gain as the government appears to pursue, but they do so as a moral obligation imposed on them by their deity, Enkai (God)." acontrarioicl.com/2022/10/21/sud
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Hot off the press! #Maasai exclusion and marginalization in #Tanzania - great article by @Oleshangay
acontrarioicl.com/2022/10/21/sud
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BREAKING: a popular hotel in Kismaayo is under Al Shabab attack-witnesses say.
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AUC has informed us that the Peace Talks is set for 24 Oct,2022 to be held in South Africa.We have reconfirmed our commitment to participate. However,We are dismayed that some are bent on preempting the peace talks & spreading false allegations against the defensive measures.
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Somali Journalists Chief Out on Bail After Appearance Before Mogadishu Court
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US aid chief :”With as many as one million people teetering on the edge of famine, we urge all parties...to agree to a ceasefire, and call for safe and unhindered humanitarian access and withdrawal of the EDF (Eritreans) from #Ethiopia.”
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Tigray authorities said Sunday they would respect a ceasefire after the African Union called for an immediate truce. Concern of mass casualties is growing following reports of a joint Ethiopian-Eritrean offensive on Tigray's northwestern city of Shire.
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