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Aregawi Mezgbe limped and grimaced as he finished his exercises at a rehabilitation centre in Mekele, the capital of Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray region. The former mechanic fought with Tigrayan rebel forces in the devastating two-year war that ended in November 2022, motivated by reports of “abuses and killings” by federal forces.He was hit by a bomb …

A rare rehab centre fixes victims of Ethiopia’s warTue, 29 Oct 2024 10:18:19 GMT Read More »

Sporting a scarf emblazoned with an image of Kamala Harris, shop owner Jimmie Thorne watched US election coverage on TV from his printing shop in Ghana’s capital Accra.As US election day draws near, the 70-year-old is among a unique set of African American voters closely following the presidential race from the other side of the …

Ghana’s African American diaspora split as US election loomsTue, 29 Oct 2024 10:02:06 GMT Read More »

Rawa curls up on a chair, pulls her knees tight to her chest and hides her face with a large white veil as if to shield herself from the outside world.”There were seven men who raped me,” she whispers, haltingly recounting a brutal assault shortly after the start of the two-year war in Ethiopia’s northernmost …

‘No one heard our cries’: Tigray war rape survivors recount their ordealsTue, 29 Oct 2024 03:02:07 GMT Read More »

The two-year war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region left hundreds of thousands of people dead, more than one million still displaced and cost more than $20 billion in damage, until a peace deal in November 2022 ended the bloodshed.The war erupted in November 2020 when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent the army to overthrow the leaders …

The situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray two years after warTue, 29 Oct 2024 02:57:11 GMT Read More »

France and Morocco reached agreements on Monday totalling “up to ten billion euros”, sources with direct knowledge to the matter told AFP, during French President Emmanuel Macron’s three-day visit to Morocco aiming to mend strained relations.Several deals were signed in the presence of Macron and King Mohammed VI, with more expected on Tuesday, including on …

France, Morocco sign €10 bn in deals during Macron’s reset visitMon, 28 Oct 2024 22:22:18 GMT Read More »

An attack by jihadist group Boko Haram killed around 40 Chadian troops overnight near the Nigerian border, prompting an army operation to hunt down the militants, the government and local sources said on Monday.Members of Boko Haram targeted a garrison housing more than 200 Chadian soldiers late Sunday in the Lake Chad region, an area …

Chad hunts attackers after 40 killed in Boko Haram raidMon, 28 Oct 2024 18:24:39 GMT Read More »

French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Morocco’s capital Rabat on Monday for a three-day state visit aimed at mending relations with the North African country after years of tensions.His trip comes following an invitation in late September by King Mohammed VI who had called the visit an opportunity for “a renewed and ambitious vision covering …

France’s Macron in Morocco for a diplomatic resetMon, 28 Oct 2024 16:07:00 GMT Read More »

The people of conflict-torn Sudan are living a “nightmare” of hunger, disease and massive ethnic violence, particularly in Darfur, the UN secretary-general warned on Monday. War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under the country’s de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his …

UN chief says Sudan is enduring ‘nightmare’ of hunger, violence, illnessMon, 28 Oct 2024 14:45:10 GMT Read More »

Bryan Mbeumo, Nicolas Jackson and Mohamed Salah — the leading African challengers for the Premier League Golden Boot award — all scored at the weekend.Cameroon international Mbeumo netted twice for Brentford in a 4-3 win over Ipswich, Senegalese Jackson helped Chelsea beat Newcastle 2-1 and Egyptian Salah equalised for Liverpool in a 2-2 draw at …

African players in Europe: Golden Boot contenders all scoreMon, 28 Oct 2024 12:28:45 GMT Read More »

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu’s house in central Nigeria.It is always the same story — the Niger River bursts its banks and the waters claim his home for weeks on end, until he can return and take stock of the damage.The house then needs cleaning, …

Climate change-worsened floods wreak havoc in AfricaMon, 28 Oct 2024 07:04:22 GMT Read More »