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Spanish Rescuers Find 17 Dead African Migrants on People-Trafficking Boat

Posted on April 27, 2021April 27, 2021By Editor

More than 1,850 Africans died while being trafficked in small boats to the Canary Islands of Spain in 2020, and the rate of new arrivals has more than doubled in the first quarter of this year according to immigration monitors. … Read More >Spanish Rescuers Find 17 Dead African Migrants on People-Trafficking Boat

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Vaccine producers could have funded jabs for all of Africa, instead shareholder payouts & sluggish ‘charity’ efforts are priority

Posted on April 23, 2021April 23, 2021By Editor

The three largest producers of Covid-19 vaccines could have funded the entire cost of vaccinating Africa with the money they paid stockholders this year – and vaccine-sharing charity COVAX isn’t bridging the gap, analysis shows. … Read More >Vaccine producers could have funded jabs for all of Africa, instead shareholder payouts & sluggish ‘charity’ efforts are priority

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Africa CDC urges nations to use vaccines despite expiry issue confusion

Posted on April 23, 2021April 23, 2021By Editor

The top official at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has called on nations to not throw out Covid vaccines over confusion about whether the jabs received had expired, stating they are safe to use. … Read More >Africa CDC urges nations to use vaccines despite expiry issue confusion

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France ‘enabled’ the 1994 genocide, new Rwandan report says, after French report clears France of complicity

Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021By Editor

A Rwandan government-commissioned report on the 1994 genocide has accused France of “enabling” the slaughter, going further than a recent French report that held the country responsible but stopped short of judging it complicit. … Read More >France ‘enabled’ the 1994 genocide, new Rwandan report says, after French report clears France of complicity

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France accused of violating international law in Mali air strike that killed 19 civilians

Posted on April 2, 2021April 2, 2021By Editor

A UN report has accused France of killing 19 civilians in violation of international humanitarian law when fighter jets launched an airstrike that hit a wedding party in central Mali. Paris has refuted the report’s findings. … Read More >France accused of violating international law in Mali air strike that killed 19 civilians

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Islamic State claims Mozambique attack that killed 55, thousands reported fleeing besieged gas town

Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021By Editor

Attacks that killed 55 people in the northern Mozambique town of Palma, an area worth billions of dollars to gas companies, have reportedly been claimed by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) via its Amaq news agency. … Read More >Islamic State claims Mozambique attack that killed 55, thousands reported fleeing besieged gas town

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Attack by ISIS-linked militants traps over 180 people, including foreigners, in Mozambique hotel for days

Posted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021By Editor

Foreign employees working on French Total’s LNG terminal construction project are among those trapped in a hotel in northern Mozambique which has been besieged by militants for three days. … Read More >Attack by ISIS-linked militants traps over 180 people, including foreigners, in Mozambique hotel for days

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U.S. Government Turns Somalia Into Failed State to Steal Its Oil for Shell and Exxon-Mobil

Posted on March 17, 2021March 17, 2021By Editor

United States foreign policy in Somalia has always sided with the wrong side.” That’s how Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, a young Somali historian studying for his doctorate at Oxford, summarized Washington’s legacy there in an interview with CovertAction Magazine. … Read More >U.S. Government Turns Somalia Into Failed State to Steal Its Oil for Shell and Exxon-Mobil

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Gunmen abduct 30 students in Nigeria, police confirm, in ongoing spate of kidnappings

Posted on March 13, 2021March 13, 2021By Editor

Nigerian police have said that 30 students remain unaccounted for after gunmen targeted a technical college in the northwest of the country late Thursday night, as the shocking trend of student kidnapping continues. … Read More >Gunmen abduct 30 students in Nigeria, police confirm, in ongoing spate of kidnappings

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At least eight killed in week-long Senegal unrest after president imprisons opposition leader (VIDEOS)

Posted on March 11, 2021March 11, 2021By Editor

Despite the release of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko Monday, violent protests which have so far claimed the lives of eight people continued across the country. … Read More >At least eight killed in week-long Senegal unrest after president imprisons opposition leader (VIDEOS)