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Why Is The UNHCR Calling For Evacuation Aid In Ethiopia?
Set by the border between Sudan and Ethiopia, is a small regional state in northwestern Ethiopia called Benishangul Gumuz. This region is home to over 700,000 people of which 70,000 are Sudanese and South Sudanese refugees and over 500,000 people are internally displaced Ethiopians. Conflict recently broke out in the town of Tongo reportedly between…
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How Blockade Is Escalating Death Rates In Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
A recent report by the World Food Programme (WFP) has shared that nearly 40% of people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are suffering “an extreme lack of food” following 15 months of fighting between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian government. According to the UN agency, the region which is home to about…
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Fact Check: What is Happening In Burkina Faso?
On Sunday, January 23, 2021, heavy gunfire was heard near President Roch Marc Christian Kabore’s residence in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou. Hours later, reports confirmed that mutinying soldiers had successfully detained the president at a military camp in the nation’s capital. State news shared that soldiers first took control of the Lamizana Sangoule military barracks…
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Why Are People Protesting in Sudan? (Long Read)
While the Sudanese national team is keeping their heads high as they ball at this year’s AFCON, citizens meant to cheer them on are currently being slaughtered by security forces in the country. On Monday, Sudanese security forces opened fire on anti-military protesters, killing 7 and injuring around 100 others. Monday’s deaths push to at…
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Militia Attacks Spike Deadly Conflict in North-Eastern DRC
No less than 15 people have been killed in two deadly attacks by militia groups in Ituri, a region under siege in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local sources said on Monday. Militiamen from the armed group Cooperative for the Development of Congo (Codeco) have been accused of being behind the recent attacks.…
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56 People Killed in Ethiopia’s Latest Airstrike
The ongoing conflict between Ethiopia and Tigray has claimed at least 56 internally Displaced Persons after Ethiopian military officers air raided a camp in the Dedebit area of Tigray. In a tweet on Saturday, Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) said “another callous drone attack” by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s…
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Over 200 Dead In Fresh Bandit Attacks In Northwest Nigeria
Over 200 people have died in a retaliation attack by bandits following a military raid of their hideouts in Zamfara State last week. The spokesperson to the minister of humanitarian affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq said more than 200 bodies were buried, while over 10,000 people have been displaced. The military conducted air attacks on Monday…
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Over Six People Killed In DR Congo Christmas Day Bombing
At least six people have reportedly died after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a restaurant in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Beni. Authorities have accused the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) of Saturday’s attack. The militia is one of the deadliest armed groups in the region and is claimed by…
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The US Returns Over 900 Stolen Artefacts to Mali
America has returned a collection of 921 stolen artefacts to Mali at a ceremony held in the West African nation’s capital on Tuesday. The 921 looted archaeological and ethnographic objects were illegally trafficked in the U.S. and previously listed as replicas. Mali Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and U.S. Ambassador Dennis Hankins opened carefully packed…
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Twitter Removes 3,500 State-Sponsored Propaganda Accounts
Twitter has reportedly removed 3,465 accounts used for “state-backed information operations” linked to six countries: China, Mexico, Russia, Tanzania, Uganda and Venezuela. 2,048 of the total accounts deleted were linked to a Chinese Communist Party, reporting the treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang province, according to a statement published on Thursday. Another 112 removed accounts were…