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An outbreak of Ebola is raising the alarm in Uganda. The staff of St. Florence’s Medical Clinic in the town of Mubende in southern Uganda is on high alert. The clinic is believed to have treated the first confirmed patient of Ebola, a 24-year-old boy, who later caught the virus. Lab technician Melon Kyomugisha said the boy presented Malaria-like symptoms when he came in. “That man came in here and we were the first ones to treat him. I tested him and he had malaria, then the following day the man was not improving then we had to change the…

In the Egyptian capital Cairo, volunteers collect plastic and rubbish from the Nile River. The action is part of a campaign to clean up the river ahead of the upcoming COP27 global climate summit in November. https://youtu.be/0HmK7H3MXGo AMN Reporters.

New satellite imagery of one of the world’s most reclusive nations shows a military build-up inside Eritrea near the border with Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, backing up witness accounts of a new, large-scale offensive. Eritrea has fought alongside Ethiopia against Tigray forces. It rejects allegations that its soldiers committed some of the worst atrocities in the conflict that began in late 2020. Witnesses in Eritrea this month told The Associated Press that people including students and public servants are being rounded up across the nation and sent to fight in the new offensive. The satellite imagery provided by Maxar Technologies…

The long-awaited trial of Félicien Kabuga, for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has got underway at a United Nations tribunal in The Hague. The judges said the hearing must go on despite the former businessman and radio station owner’s refusal to appear in court. He is being charged with three counts of genocide and two counts of crimes against humanity. Kabuga, who is in his late 80s, was captured in Paris two years ago after decades on the run. In his first court appearance in 2020, following his extradition to The Hague, he pleaded not guilty to the…

16 cases of ebola virus have so far been reported in Uganda since the fresh outbreak last week Tuesday, the Ugandan health ministry announced on Sunday. On Friday, the health authorities announced that four people had died of Ebola in three days. All the deaths and cases were recorded in Mubende district, about 150 kilometres west of the capital Kampala. The Ministry of Health announced on Twitter on Sunday (September 25) that 16 Ebola cases had been recorded since the start of the outbreak and that “cases have been identified outside Mebende”, three in Kyegegwa and one in Kassanda, in…

Thirteen years to the day after the 2009 massacre at a stadium in the Guinean capital, Conakry, the trial of dozen of suspects will get underway later this week. Among the accused is the country’s former military coup leader, Moussa Dadis Camara, who returned to Guinea on Sunday to attend the proceedings. ‘He always wanted to be there. And now that this trial has been scheduled, Camara will be there to deliver his part of the truth. We can reassure you that he is not guilty of anything, rather he has claimed his innocence and we will prove it during…

At least 11 people, including eight police officers and a local chief, were killed on Saturday by cattle rustlers they were chasing in drought-stricken northern Kenya, Kenyan police said Sunday. Cattle rustling or disputes over water sources or grazing land are common in the pastoral areas of northern Kenya, which border Ethiopia and South Sudan. The Kenyan police denounced on Twitter a “criminal and cowardly ambush by cattle rustlers against the public and police officers” in Turkana County, which it said left 11 people dead: 8 police officers, 2 civilians and a local chief. The police officers killed were in…

Three people have died, and scores were injured after a six-storey building collapsed in Kiambu, central Kenya, Kenya’s national broadcaster reported. It is not immediately clear what caused the building to collapse. Rescue efforts are underway and emergency workers have managed to pull a child from the rubble. Several others have also been rescued but “sadly, some are feared to have succumbed to their injuries”, Kiambu county Governor Kimani Wamatangi said. Building collapses in Kenya have in the past been blamed on poor structural design or sloppy construction. Eyewitnesses said it fell onto an adjacent building. It is not known…

Libya’s Court of Appeal held Sunday the fifth session of the trial of 46 men accused of belonging to terrorist organization: the Islamic State. Clad in blue prison overalls the suspects appeared in the dock. Among the accused, Libyan, Tunisian, Egyptian, Algerian, Moroccan, Jordanian and Sudanese nationals. They are accused of being members of a terrorist group and of carrying out killings. During the session, which was attended by families of IS victims, the judge listened to eyewitness statements. Islamic State organization took advantage of the turmoil following the murder of Muammar Gaddafi to set up a base in Libya in…

In an ambitious mission to cut plastic pollution in the top 30 most affected countries, the Plastic Odyssey is ready to set sail from Marseille on 1 October. It will be a three-year expedition to South-East Asia, Africa and South America; training hundreds of people to recycle waste into useful objects Simon Bernard is a co-founder of Plastic Odyssey. “We’ll be making 30 stops in Africa, South America and South-East Asia,” he says. “And the aim is to train 300 recycling entrepreneurs who will be able to set up micro-factories and process waste before it ends up in the ocean.”…