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Somalia and Ethiopia feud over arms influx
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Somalia and Ethiopia feud over arms influx

Somalia accused Ethiopia of smuggling weapons on Tuesday amid fears that arms going into the conflict-riven Horn of Africa nation could end up in the hands of Islamist militants. The neighbours traded barbs a day after an Egyptian warship unloaded heavy weaponry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the second shipment since a security pact in August. Landlocked Ethiopia, which has thousands of troops in Somalia to fight al Qaeda-linked insurgents, has fallen out with the Mogadishu government over its plans to build a port in the breakaway region of Somaliland in exchange for possible recognition of its sovereignty. The spat has drawn Somalia closer to Egypt, which has quarrelled with Ethiopia for years over Addis Ababa's construction of a vast hydro dam on the Nile River. Ethiopia's...
Rhino numbers tick higher, but poachers lurk amid high demand for horns
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Rhino numbers tick higher, but poachers lurk amid high demand for horns

Rhinoceros numbers across the world increased slightly in 2023, but so too did the number of animals killed by poachers, according to a new report. Thanks to preservation efforts, the white rhino population increased by 1,522 to 17,464 in 2023, an annual report by the International Rhino Foundation said as it marked World Rhino Day on Sunday. However, the number of black and greater one-horned rhinos stayed the same, it added That left the global rhino population of the five subspecies at about 28,000, which stood at 500,000 at the beginning of the 20th century. In Africa, one rhino was killed every 15 hours last year as demand for the animal’s horn remains high, the State of the Rhino report says. A total of 586 rhinos were killed across the continent, most of them in South Af...
Israeli forces raid and shut down Al Jazeera bureau in occupied West Bank
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Israeli forces raid and shut down Al Jazeera bureau in occupied West Bank

Israeli soldiers have raided the Al Jazeera office in the occupied West Bank and ordered the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign targeting the Doha-based broadcaster. Al Jazeera aired footage of Israeli troops storming its bureau in Ramallah on Sunday and ordering the office to be shut for 45 days. This follows an order issued in May that saw Israeli police raid Al Jazeera’s premises in occupied East Jerusalem, seizing equipment, preventing its broadcasts in Israel and blocking its websites The network later aired footage of Israeli troops tearing down a banner on a balcony used by the Al Jazeera office in Ramallah. Al Jazeera said it bore an image of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist shot dead by Israeli forces in May 2022. “There i...
Son of Uganda’s president ends 2026 election bid
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Son of Uganda’s president ends 2026 election bid

KAMPALA, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The son of Uganda's long-serving leader Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday he had abandoned plans to run for presidency at the next election in 2026, urging his supporters to endorse his father instead. President Museveni, who has led the country for 38 years, is widely expected to run for re-election even though he has not yet confirmed his candidacy. "I would like to announce that I will not be on the ballot paper in 2026," said Muhoozi Kainerugaba in a post on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. "I fully endorse President Yoweri Museveni in the next elections," he said, urging his supporters to back his father for a seventh term. Kainerugaba, currently the head of the country's military, is widely expected to eventually become his ...
IUN warns escalating Israel-Hezbollah violence risks devastating conflict.
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IUN warns escalating Israel-Hezbollah violence risks devastating conflict.

“A senior United Nations official has told the Security Council that further violence between Israel and Iran-aligned groups Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon risked igniting a far more damaging conflict We risk seeing a conflagration that could dwarf even the devastation and suffering witnessed so far,” UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the 15-member council on Friday, which met about attacks this week on Hezbollah Israel’s air raid followed two days of attacks in which Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies exploded, killing 37 people and wounding thousands. Those attacks were widely believed to have been carried out by Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement How did Hezbollah get the pagers that exploded in Lebanon? Hundreds ...
CIA officer who sexually assaulted dozens of women given 30-year sentence.
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CIA officer who sexually assaulted dozens of women given 30-year sentence.

Veteran officer with the US spy agency found guilty of sexually assaulting dozens of women while stationed around the world. A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, with a greying beard and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment on Wednesday for one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the CIA’s history. It was chronicled in his own library of more than 500 images that showed him in some cases straddling and groping his nude, unconscious victims. “It’s safe to say he’s a sexual predator,” United States Senior Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in imposing the full sentence prosec...
How a beauty queen became the face of South Africa-Nigeria tensions
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How a beauty queen became the face of South Africa-Nigeria tensions

17"Sept"2024" After Chidimma Adetshina suffered xenophobic abuse online, young Nigerians say they feel unwelcome living in South Africa Anita Odunyao Solarin, a 21-year-old Nigerian who has spent her entire life in South Africa, finds it safer not to disclose her West African roots. She does her best to assimilate with her peers and rarely volunteers her origins. This, she says, shields her from persistent bullying – a phenomenon she’s faced since childhood after moving to South Africa as a baby “I try not to show where I am from or look Nigerian. I hide my identity socially,” Solarin told Al Jazeera. “Because I’ve had to do it for so long, it has become normal.” Her earliest memories of the tensions between South Africans and Nigerians date back to kindergarten, where she was ...
Adeegga Wehel: Dareenka aabbaha xaaskiisa ku wehliyay qolka dhalmada Isbitaalka Banaadir!!
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Adeegga Wehel: Dareenka aabbaha xaaskiisa ku wehliyay qolka dhalmada Isbitaalka Banaadir!!

Isbitaalka Hooyada iyo Dhallaanka ee Banaadir ayaa soo kordhiyay qayb cusub oo loogu magac daray ‘Wehel’ taas oo loogu talagalay in hooyooyinka xilliga foosha ay garab joogaan raggooda. Adeegga cusub ee lagu soo kordhiyay isbitaalka ayaa fursad u siinaya aabbeyaasha in ay goobjoog ka ahaadaan xilliga ay u dhalanayaan carruurta. Fartuun Shariif Maxamed oo ah agaasimaha Isbitaalka Hooyada iyo Dhallaanka ee Banaadir ayaa BBC-da uga warbixisay adeegga cusub oo ay soo kordhiyeen iyo sababta ku dhalisay, ‘’Barnaamijka Wehel waxaa nagu dhaliyay kadib markii aan aragnay caqabado badan oo ay kamid yihiin xilliyada hooyada isbitaalka ay imaaneyso in aysan la socon qof wehel ah ama ay la socdaan dad aan ehel u ahayn oo laga yaabo in ay daris yihiin,’’ ayay tiri agaasime Fartuun. Dhanka kale ...
Sirdoonka Masar iyo madaxweynaha Eritrea oo ku heshiiyay arrin ku saabsan Soomaaliya
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Sirdoonka Masar iyo madaxweynaha Eritrea oo ku heshiiyay arrin ku saabsan Soomaaliya

Sida ay sheegayaan wararka soo baxaya, madaxa sirdoonka dalka Masar iyo wasiirka Arimada Dibadda ee dalkaas ayaa waxay gaaraan magaalada Asmara ee caasimadda dalka Eritrea, iyaga oo sida la sheegay garsiiyay madaxayne Afwerki farriin ay uga sideen dhiggiisa Masar Cabdifitaax Asisi. Madaxa sirdoonka dalka Masar, Abbas Kamel iyo wasiirka Arimaha Dibadda Badr Abdellati ayaa waxay madaxweynaha Eritrea gaarsiiyeen fariin ku saabsan xaalka haatan ee amniga iyo sidaasadda ee uu ku sugan yahay gobolku iyo sidoo kale in ay xoojoiyaan labada dowladood xiriirka ka dhaxeeya. Dhanka Masar, sida iyagu ay ku sheegeen war ay ka soo saareen booqashada saraakiishaan sare Asmara, ujeedka ayaa waxa uu ahaa in ay kala hadlaan madaxweynaha Eritrea arimo ku saabsan waxa ka dhacaya badda cas iyo ammaanka iy...
Mpox crisis: Why do African countries struggle to make or buy vaccines?
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Mpox crisis: Why do African countries struggle to make or buy vaccines?

After months of delay due to logistics, the first sets of mpox vaccines have finally begun arriving in Democratic Republic of the Congo, donated by Western countries. The Central African nation is the epicentre of a new mpox outbreak that led the World Health Organization (WHO) to sound its highest alert level last month. In 2024, more than 20,000 mpox cases have been reported and more than 500 people have died. The virus is present in 13 African countries, as well as in some European and Asian nations However, neither DRC nor other African nations produce the vaccines that could slow the spread of mpox and eventually help it to die out. Instead, the countries at the heart of the health crisis have had to rely on promises of vaccine donations from abroad. Japan and Denmark are the...