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Only 20 days old, Tigsti already starving as famine stalks Ethiopia
Tigsti’s mother walked for 12 days to get her famished newborn to a clinic in Tigray. The UN says this is the world’s worst famine conditions in a decade.
- by Rodnet Muhumuza
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Dozens killed in eastern Congo massacres: UN
At least 50 people have been killed in two attacks on villages in eastern Congo, in potentially the worst night of violence the area has seen in at least four years, the Kivu Security Tracker research group says.
US freezes funding for Ethiopia as more Tigray abuses surface
The latest move will result in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund withholding funding to a nation led by a Nobel laureate Prime Minister.
- by Simon Marks
Germany offers Namibia €1b over genocide
Up to 100,000 people were killed in the early 20th century in what was seen as a forerunner to Holocaust.
- by Justin Huggler
In Rwanda, France tries to reset relations with Africa in China’s shadow
There’s a new understanding by an African nation and a former colonial power of a historical crime over the genocide of Tutsis.
- by Norimitsu Onishi and Abdi Latif Dahir
Wall of orange lava: thousands flee volcano in Congo amid fears of second eruption
Volcanologists in Goma warned that a volcanic eruption under a nearby lake, accompanied by a large earthquake, could trigger a sudden release of carbon dioxide which could asphyxiate thousands.
- by Djaffar Al Katanty
More than 100 missing, feared dead after Nigerian boat sinks
A boat carrying more than 165 passengers on the Niger River broke apart and sank as it sailed in the northern state of Kebbi.
- by Sam Olukoya
Residents flee as volcano erupts near Congolese city of Goma
Congo’s Mount Nyiragongo has erupted for the first time in nearly two decades, turning the night sky a fiery red and sending lava onto a major highway as panicked residents tried to flee Goma, a city of nearly 2 million.
- by Justin Kabumba Katumwa
Internal emails reveal WHO knew of sex abuse claims in Congo
Young women working on the Ebola outbreak in 2019 claim they were offered or appointed to jobs in return for sex.
- by Maria Cheng and Al-Hadji Kudra Maliro
Eyeing Indian outbreak, Africa ramps up monitoring of coronavirus variants
The slow vaccine rollout has made Africa’s hunt for new variants, which tend to emerge where spread goes unchecked, more urgent.
- by Lesley Wroughton and Max Bearak
Tears and singing as abducted Nigerian students return to parents
Nearly two months after their abduction by armed gunmen, more than two dozen students in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state were reunited with jubilant family members on Friday amid tears and celebratory singing.
- by Garba Muhammad and Bosan Yakusak