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Families waited at a Mozambican port on Sunday as boats arrived carrying people who had fled the ongoing violence from a strategic town in the country’s north. Rebels fought Sunday for the fifth straight day to control the town of Palma, as reports came in that dozens of civilians had been killed and bodies were littering the streets. The fate of scores of foreign workers was also unknown. Many Palma residents ran into the dense tropical forest surrounding the town to escape the violence, according to Mozambican news reports. But a few hundred foreign workers from South Africa, Britain and…

The Ever Given, a huge container ship that has been stuck across the Suez Canal for almost a week, has reportedly been straightened and released. The video appeared to show the ship floating, but its owner later told AFP that it had only been “turned”. The Ever Given has been blocking one of the world’s busiest trade routes, the Suez Canal, forcing companies to reroute ships. An estimated $9.6bn (£7bn) of goods is being held up each day at the Suez Canal. Maritime services company Inchcape earlier said that the vessel had been freed from the shoreline. The reports that…

Algerians retook the streets demanding the release of students who were arrested during Friday’s anti-government Hirak movement protest. On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered outside the Sidi Mohamed Tribunal in the capital Algiers. Authorities arrested activist and poet Mohamed Tadjadit and six others. But they were released later on Sunday, one of the detainee’s lawyers told AFP. “We are here today for our brothers: The university student Abdel Nour and my brother Mohamed Tagadet, who was arrested in Odan Square,” said activist Najib Khaimud. “This is called kidnapping and not an arbitrary detention as if they were terrorists. These acts…

The U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, has presented new aviation security screening equipment for use at the Kotoka International Airport. The equipment which is to help in the anti-terrorism fight was presented to the Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, and the Chief Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ambassador Martha Pobee. The Anti-terrorism Assistance (ATA) Program was established in 1983, it is the US Government’s premier counterterrorism training and equipment provider for foreign law enforcement agencies. The program receives funding and policy guidance from the Bureau of Counterterrorism and is administered by the…

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has distanced himself from some campaign posters indicating his decision to contest the 2024 presidential elections. Social media in the last few days have been awash with campaign posters of Dr. Bawumia with ‘Break the 8’ tagline. But in a statement, Dr. Bawumia stated that his focus is helping President Akufo-Addo have execute his transformation agenda and not focusing on the 2024 presidential ticket. “The Office of the Vice President has taken notice of the proliferation of posters around the country apparently promoting H.E. Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the candidate of the NPP for…

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…