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Worldwide News Around Africa 12th August, 2021

Around Africa



Starting Monday in the Kabylie region, east of Algeria's capital, the fires grew in number as the army was deployed to battle blazes and help evacuate residential areas.

Abiy Ahmed issued the call after rebels from Ethiopia's Tigray region moved into neighboring areas and down a key highway leading to the capital, Addis Ababa.

South Africa may have christened itself the “Rainbow Nation,” but high walls of income and opportunity still divide its communities.

The virus, considered Ebola's cousin, has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent.

Among the possible future scenarios charted in the IPCC’s landmark report is one in which Trump-style politics leads to a scary surge in global temperatures.

Ms. Gobena, who died of covid-19, built an orphanage, schools, a hospital and training centers credited with serving thousands amid drought, famine and war.

Overcoming an impoverished upbringing, he attained the rank of career ambassador and served as U.S. envoy to Sierra Leone, Togo, Bahrain and Slovenia.

The group has accused the Nigerian military of attacking civilians in the nation's southeast.

In recent weeks, there has been a widening of the war in Tigray.

Power holds the biggest American lever of influence over Addis Ababa: more than $1 billion in annual aid.

He received a presidential medal for courage. Now he's accused of supporting a global fraud ring.

“There is no other word for it but a betrayal of trust, the consequences of which are now playing out in Africa, in lives lost that should not have been, had the wealthiest countries allowed poorer countries access to their fair share of vaccines,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told The Washington Post.

Though quieter in the United States than a year ago, this month has seen a dramatic spasm of protest in other parts of the world.

Since he took office, President Biden has repeatedly signaled that his administration would stand up for democracy and human rights. Almost immediately, though, there were reasons to be skeptical.

The nearly bloodless military coup restored democracy to Portugal after almost half a century of right-wing dictatorship and effectively ended Portugal’s colonial rule over the African nations of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau.

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The opposition leader had been campaigning for changes to Tanzania’s constitution that would lessen the central government’s power.

On the list of potential offenses: organizing efforts to support sexual minorities, donating to such causes and posting encouraging messages on social media.

Bitter disenchantment coursed through the streets of two South African cities last week, taking form in violence that claimed more than 270 lives.

Kidnapping has become one of the most lucrative businesses for so-called bandits in northern Nigeria.

A new book examines how the period between 1490 and 1530 marks perhaps the most pivotal turning point in history.

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