Archive for October 11th, 2021
The African Union says it wants to partner with the United Nations in a proposed joint mission to support Somalia in its efforts to battle armed extremists and achieve stability.In a statement, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council said it end...
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Eswatini deployed soldiers and police to multiple schools Monday as students continued to protest for political reforms.High school students in Africa’s last kingdom have been boycotting classes for the past month.Among the students’ demands is the rel...
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On their trek north toward the United States, some 19,000 migrant children have crossed the dangerous jungle sprawling the border between Panama and Colombia so far this year, UNICEF said Monday.The number of children who crossed the Darien Gap is almo...
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Two soldiers were killed when their motorcycles ran over a homemade bomb in southeast Burkina Faso on Monday, the latest attack in a region previously spared the jihadist violence of the north.The West African country has faced increasingly frequent an...
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Ethiopia’s national army launched a ground offensive against forces from the northern region of Tigray on Monday, the region’s ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) said.TPLF spokesperson Getachew Reda told Reuters by phone that the army, alon...
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