Africa
Morocco starts coronavirus vaccination campaign
Morocco started a national coronavirus vaccination campaign on Thursday after receiving vaccine shipments from AstraZeneca and Sinopharm, state media said. Inaugurating the ...Parents of Somali soldiers fear sons fighting in Ethiopia
Somalia is under growing pressure to explain the fate of soldiers whose families fear they were secretly deployed from training camps in ...Uganda high court orders end to Bobi Wine house arrest
Uganda’s High Court on Monday ordered security forces to end their confinement of presidential election runner-up Bobi Wine. Wine, whose real name ...At least 83 killed in fighting in Sudan’s Darfur
Over 80 people have been killed in two days of ongoing clashes in Sudan’s restive Darfur, doctors said Sunday, just over two ...Uganda’s Museveni wins sixth term, rival alleges fraud
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has scored a decisive election victory to win a sixth term, the country’s election commission said on Saturday, ...Ethiopia says ex-foreign minister killed by military after refusing to surrender
Ethiopia said on Wednesday its military had killed three members of the Tigray region’s former ruling party, including former Ethiopian Foreign Minister ...French warplanes fly over Central African Republic amid rebel offensives
Rebels attacked two towns in the Central African Republic on Saturday as French warplanes flew over in an apparent attempt to deter ...France says kills dozens of Mali jihadists, villagers say wedding party hit
France said Tuesday it had killed dozens of jihadists in a weekend air strike in central Mali, while several villagers and a ...Zimbabwean teen teaches taekwondo to fight child marriage
In Zimbabwe, where girls as young as 10 are forced to marry due to poverty or traditional and religious practices, a teenage ...Niger massacres highlight Sahel vulnerability to jihadis
The Sahel had just turned the page on a grim 2020 when the new year brought a chilling reminder of the region’s ...














