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The next African Cup of Nations, which has been postponed by one year due to the coronavirus pandemic, will host 24 games from January 9 to February 6, 2022 in Cameroon. The five days of qualifier matches starts on Wednesday and will give an answer as to who will compete in the championship. Before the last two days, five teams were already guaranteed their place in the 33rd edition. It includes Cameroon, five-time Africa Cup of Nations winner, which qualifies as it is the host country. Mali (Group A), Senegal (Group I), Tunisia (Group J) and defending champion Algeria (Group…

A cargo container ship that’s among the largest in the world has turned sideways and blocked all traffic in Egypt’s Suez Canal, officials said Wednesday, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic. The MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged container ship that carries trade between Asia and Europe, became grounded Tuesday in the narrow, man-made waterway dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the Ever Given to turn sideways in the canal. GAC, a global shipping and logistics company, described the Ever Given as suffering “a blackout while transiting…

Ivory Coast has been ranked the fourth largest rubber producer in the world, according to the country’s Association of Natural Rubber Professionals (Apromac). Their production is still far from the leader, Malaysia, which produces nearly ninety percent of the world’s rubber trees. Ivory Coast produced nearly one million tones of natural rubber in 2020, which represents 80% of the continent’s latex. Ivory Coast rubber production has continued to rise since 2005 when they produced 170,000 tones of paltry products. The West African country was previously ranked 7th globally and is now aiming at increasing production to top the world in…

This is the second big fire to tear through the camps this year, and it is the largest yet. It is another devastating blow to the Rohingya refugees who live here. Save the Children is deeply concerned by a fire currently tearing through several densely populated Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, which are home to over 800,000 Rohingya people. It is yet unknown how many people might have been caught in the blaze, which has been spreading fast, but we do know that over 80,000 people live in the affected sub-camps. Tayeba Begum, a Save the Children volunteer…

The number of new displacements nearly doubled in 2020 against 2019. More than one million people are now internally displaced. The country also hosts 435,000 refugees from Nigeria and CAR. Multiple of deadly attacks by non-state armed groups in the Far North region and growing violence in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions continue to trigger massive but underreported displacement in Cameroon. Most displacement associated with conflict in Cameroon has historically occurred in the Far North, the poorest region of the country and the one that suffers the most from the Boko Haram insurgency. In 2020, however, seven in ten internally displaced…

The Federal Government of Somalia is calling on donors to provide sufficient and early funding to scale up of emergency response as the projected poor rainfall, the impact of the flooding, desert locust and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic are again pushing up to 2.7 million people across the country towards a major humanitarian emergency. In addition to the compounding effects of poor and erratic rainfall distribution in 2020 and the projected poor performance of the 2021 Gu’ (April-June) rains already show signs of severe pre-drought conditions in Gedo region of Jubbaland, South West State, Puntland, Galmudug and Somaliland, pushing…

Over the past three years almost one in four civilian casualties in Yemen were children. In 2018, one in five civilian casualties were children, but in 2019 and 2020, that jumped to one in four. In addition, the conflict is getting deadlier for children. In 2018, one in five civilian casualties were children, but in 2019 and 2020, that jumped to one in four. It’s a stark reminder that children and families are paying the heaviest price for this brutal war through no fault of their own. As Yemen marks six years of conflict, its people are suffering the biggest…

Beijing has said it will sanction several EU officials, including parliamentarians, for “harming” China’s sovereignty. The EU, the US, the UK and Canada all slapped sanctions on Beijing for abuses in Xinjiang. China on Monday said it had decided to impose sanctions on 10 European Union citizens, including politicians, for “gross interference” in its internal affairs, and for “flagrantly violating international law.” In a statement, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced it would endorse sanctions against the individuals and four EU entities for “maliciously spreading lies and false information.” On the list of individuals to be sanctioned are five members of the EU parliament — Reinhard Butikofer, Michael…

China’s response to Western sanctions is “unacceptable and will have consequences” said the EU parliament speaker amid the Uyghur row. Politicians around Europe condemned China’s retaliatory sanctions after the EU moved against several top officials in China on Monday. “Rather than change its policies and address our legitimate concerns, China has again turned a blind eye and these measures are regrettable and unacceptable,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said, commenting on China targeting EU officials and lawmakers. Earlier on Monday, the European Union, United States, United Kingdom, and Canada imposed sanctions on Beijing over human rights abuses against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. ‘Unacceptable’…

Germany will enter a strict shutdown for five days over Easter as it fights soaring infection rates fuelled by variants in a “new pandemic”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday after marathon talks with regional leaders. As well as extending existing measures including keeping cultural, leisure and sporting facilities shut through to April 18, Merkel and Germany’s 16 state premiers agreed a tougher shutdown between April 1 and 5. Almost all shops will be closed during the five days, and religious services will be moved online over Easter. Only grocers will be allowed to open on Saturday April 3. “The situation…