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Algeria recalls envoy to France, closes airspace to French military planes
Image Source The Algerian government’s actions come following comments by French president Emmanuel Macron, which the government said amounts to foreign interference in its internal affairs. Algeria banned French military Read More..
Panel finds 80 alleged abuse cases tied to WHO’s Congo work
Image Source Twenty-one workers for the World Health Organization in Congo have been accused of sexually abusing people during a Ebola outbreak, a WHO-commissioned panel said Tuesday in a report Read More..
Ethiopia is Developing Its Own Social Media
Image Source In the face of growing apathy toward social media, fueled in some cases by the government’s intolerance of free speech and the desire to control people’s posts, many Read More..
Mine leak is blamed for pollution in Congo
Image Source A suspected leak of heavy metals from a mine in Angola is causing an “unprecedented environmental catastrophe,” affecting some 2 million people in neighboring Congo, researchers at Kinshasa University Read More..
East Africa: Hunger Looms Amid New Locust Invasion, Covid, Drought and Floods
Image Source On Monday, a dark cloud of desert locusts recently floated over the city of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. For more than 40 minutes the moving swarm of Read More..