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19-July-2024" Reuters"Global IT outage causes chaos, disrupting airlines, banks, media, telecoms The big question of course is: ‘Is this some sort of massive tech breakdown or something more sinister, a hugely debilitating global cyberattack?’” The weight of evidence appeared to point to the former, he said. “CrowdStrike seems to have had some sort of mandatory update to its software that went horribly wrong,” he said. The company had reported that the issue was related to its ‘Falcon’ sensor product, engineers identifying a “content deployment problem”, said Hull. https://twitter.com/BoodhariFarah/status/1814244800134029441?t=eEO85RDCDUQ_5DldSJOkuw&s=19 A massive technology outage has disrupted businesses and institutions in multiple countries, throwing airports, airline...

18- July-2024" African elections show democracy should not be taken for granted. Some polls in Africa’s 2024 election marathon give hope, others raise alarm. Rwanda’s Paul Kagame has won a landslide victory in the presidential elections held on July 15. His Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) party also emerged victorious in the legislative vote, retaining its parliamentary majority. With more than 99 percent of the vote in Kagame’s favour, this presidential election appears to be a repeat of the previous three, where the incumbent secured expected victories. Kagame’s re-election unfolds against a broader context of many other important electoral races across Africa this year. Presidential elections have already taken place in the Comoros, Senegal, Chad and Mauritania,South Africa hel...

Maraykanka ayaa dhiirigeliyay “horumarka sii kordhaya” ee laga gaarayo dadaallada nabada iyo dib u heshiisiinta ee Itoobiya, 20 bilood ka dib xabbad joojintii ka hirgashay gobolka waqooyi ee Tigray, sida uu sheegay sarkaal sare oo Maraykan ah. Bishii November sannadkii 2022-kii, dawladda Itoobiya iyo hoggaamiyeyaasha gobolka Tigray ayaa gaadhay xabbad-joojin, loo yaqaan Pretoria Agreement ama Joojinta Colaadda, ka dib dagaal sokeeye oo laba sano socday kaas oo burburiyey inta badan waqooyiga Itoobiya. Mike Hammer, oo ah ergeyga gaarka ah ee Maraykanka u qaabilsan Geeska Afrika, ayaa VOA u sheegay toddobaadkan in Itoobiya ay ku socoto “jihada saxda ah.” Waxa uu xusay in dadkii ka barakacay gudaha dalka ay billaabeen in ay dib ugu laabtaan guryahoodii, xad gudubyadii ka dhanka ahaa xuq...

17-July-2024"North African countries seek assistance at Tripoli conference to help stem flow of refugees and migrants. Representatives from 28 African and European countries have met in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, to discuss ways to address irregular migration. In his opening remarks at the beginning of the Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum on Wednesday, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah said countries “have a moral responsibility” towards the people “who cross the desert and the sea” hoping to reach Europe The North African country is a main departure point for refugees and migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan African countries, risking dangerous sea journeys to seek better lives. The United Nations has registered more than 20,000 deaths and disappearances in the central Med...

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16-July-2024" Muslims worldwide mark Ashura Ashura is marked on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, by all Muslims Tens of thousands of Muslims across the globe on Tuesday observed Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the seventh-century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hussein. Ashura is marked on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, by all Muslims. It is a particularly important period of mourning for Shia Muslims, as it marks the anniversary of the seventh-century Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq, when Hussein was killed To mourn his death in the year 680, Shia worshippers, wearing black, cry and beat their chests in unison. Some also flagellate themselves with swords and knife-edged chains ...

15-July-2024- The prime suspect arrested over the discovery of mutilated female bodies in a Nairobi rubbish dump had confessed to killing 42 women, according to the Kenyan police. “The suspect confessed to have lured, killed and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site,” the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, told reporters on Monday. We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life,” Amin said earlier after announcing the arrest He also said that a second suspect, who was caught with a handset from a victim, was also arrested. Acting Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja said the 33-year-old prime suspect had been arrested at about 3am local time (00:00 GMT) near a bar in a joint...

13-July-2024" Aljazeera Trump rally erupts in gunfire, former president safe, officials say Former United States President and Republican candidate Donald Trump has been escorted off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd. Donald Trump was safe, the U.S. Secret Service and his campaign said on Saturday after multiple shots rang out at a rally by the Republican presidential candidate in Pennsylvania as video showed Trump grimacing and raising a hand to his right ear.The former president had just started his speech when gunshots erupted and Trump and other rally attendees hit the deck. Secret Service agents swarmed around him and live video showed blood on the right side of Trump's face and ear Trump repeatedly raised his fist ...

12-July-2024" Uganda struggles to explain origin of extra diesel cargo in Mombasa" Uganda’s bid to supply low-cost fuel got off to a messy start last week with the landlocked country now being charged millions of dollars more by Kenya in bond fees, just 12 hours after the first batch of petroleum products for Uganda National Oil Company (Unoc) landed in Mombasa. Ahead of Unoc’s long-awaited arrival of first fuel imports on July 2, government officials in Kampala gave conflicting figures of the expected consignment, which triggered suspicion of a smuggling racket among Kenyan authorities, as the numbers contradicted facts on shipping documents, The EastAfrican has learnt. This prompted the then Cabinet Secretary for Energy Davis Chirchir to direct the Kenya Revenue Author...

12 Jul 2024" The company could be fined up to 6 percent of its total worldwide annual turnover if the findings are later confirmed. Elon Musk’s social media platform X is in breach of the European Union’s online content law, according to preliminary findings by regulators that could lead to hefty fines for the company. The European Commission, the executive arm of the 27-member bloc, announced on Friday that the controversial social media platform is violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to “dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers The investigation, which opened in December 2023, arrived at its preliminary findings by analysing internal company documents and interviewing experts. The DSA requires large online platfor...