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Somalia’s president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 100 people. The government put out an appeal for blood donations with dozens of people gathered outside hospitals in the capital Mogadishu, seeking news of family members. In Mogadishu on Saturday, two cars packed with explosives blew up minutes apart near the busy Zobe intersection, followed by gunfire in an attack targeting Somalia’s education ministry. The attack took place at the same busy junction where a truck packed with explosives blew up on October 14,…

The State Department has ordered the families of U.S. embassy staffers in the Nigerian capital to leave due to heightened fears of a terrorist attack as it repeated a warning for all Americans to reconsider travelling to any part of the country and not to visit Abuja at all. The announcement came just two days after the department said it would allow nonessential personnel at the embassy in Abuja to depart voluntarily due to elevated security concerns. It did not provide details but the change suggested the U.S. has indications that an attack may be imminent. “The department (has) ordered…

At least six schoolchildren from 3 different schools tested positive for the Ebola Virus in Kampala Uganda, with one of them losing the battle to the disease that has been on the rise in the country. Ugandan Minister for Health Doctor Jane Ruth Aceng told journalists on Wednesday six children who hail from the same neighborhood were from an earlier contact that succumbed to the virus. “These learners attended three schools in the Rubaga division. We have listed 170 contacts from these schools for follow up.” Says the Minister Doctor Jane Ruth Aceng. Aceng also blamed the escalation of the…

A bone infection brought Carlos and Evadula together in Germany. The young Angolan spent two years at the NGO Friedensdorf International headquarters, but now he returns home. Besides the free treatments, the two young people shared personal experiences. Carlos took a lot of things in his luggage, some given to him by Evadula from Afghanistan, in this long awaited return to his family. “I suffered a lot with this boy. He went to Germany, stayed there for one year, there they straightened one foot, another foot, he came back, but it wasn’t finished. So he stayed here for two years…

Cypriot police fired tear gas Friday after a fire broke out in an overcrowded migrant reception centre amid clashes sparked by an argument between different nationalities, officers said. One person needed hospital treatment after being injured at the Pournara camp for migrants, on the edge of the capital Nicosia. People hurled rocks and objects at each other, forcing many to flee in panic, and firefighters rushed to extinguish a blaze that sent billowing smoke into the sky. Tensions later “calmed”, a police said. Chief of police Stelios Papatheodorou blamed the violence on overcrowding at center, which holds more than double…

Gikomba Market in Nairobi is Kenya’s hub for second hand clothes. It’s always heaving with people on the lookout for a bargain, Western brand names which are recycled and sold at a fraction of their original cost and traders appear to have an infinite amount of sacks full of second hand clothes. This market is a source of commerce, feeding into the local economy and it enables people like John Mwangi to earn an income. “This trade is what enables me to take care of my daily needs. I do not have skills in any other trade. If it stops…

It was dark. Everything was dark. And the water level rose, even higher. This time, Fortune Lawrence resigned herself to flee with her 8 children on a makeshift boat, far from her house ravaged by the floods. It has been two weeks since the 50-year-old and her “pikin” (“children” in Nigerian pidgin) fled the deadliest floods of the decade in Africa’s most populous country. The family is now living in deplorable conditions in a crowded school near Ahoada, Rivers State, in southeast Nigeria. According to records, more than 1,000 people have taken refuge in the classrooms of this makeshift IDP…

More than 300 people have been mobilised to tackle a blaze on the slopes of Tanzania’s famous Mount Kilimanjaro, local officials said Saturday, with police and local people helping firefighters. The fire was burning near the camp Karanga site used by climbers ascending the mountain, at about 4,000 metres altitude on the south side of mountain. Mount Kilimanjaro, situated in the northeast of the country, is Africa’s highest summit at 5,895 metres (19,340 feet). Officials have not yet established how the fire started, but it comes exactly two years after another blaze, which raged for a week in October 2020…

On Thursday (Oct 20), Togo’s security forces took part in a military simulation of a jihadist attack. Two French instructors from the GIGN elite corp oversaw the training course in “specialized intervention techniques The Togolese minister of security attended the exercise French ambassador to Togo. “The President of the Republic, who’s the head of the armed forces, instructed us to take all necessary means to be ready”, Damehame Yark said. “Not that we wish it upon ourselves, however, if one day an attack happens in our country, we’re taking measures now to be able to give some relief to our people,…

Eighteen people, including two policemen, have been killed in communal violence between nomadic herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria’s central Benue state, officials said Thursday. The violence broke out early Wednesday. Herders stormed the farming village of Gbeji in Ukum district, firing indiscriminately, said Paul Hemba, security adviser to the Benue state governor. Disputes between cattle herders and farmers over land, grazing and water rights are common in central and northwestern Nigeria. “According to the latest report I received, 18 people were killed in the attack, two policemen and 16 villagers,” Mr Hemba said. Several others were injured and hospitaliZed. The…