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Joint UN-INTERPOL operation disrupts firearms supply to terrorist networks in West Africa and Sahel

UN News Centre - Africa - Mon, 21/12/2020 - 17:28
An international operation coordinated jointly by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the international police organization INTERPOL has disrupted trafficking networks that supply terrorist groups across West Africa and the Sahel, the UN agency reported on Monday. 
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CAR: UN chief condemns escalating violence during election campaign

UN News Centre - Africa - Sun, 20/12/2020 - 17:44
With a week to go until elections are scheduled to take place in the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN is concerned about an escalation of armed attacks, amid reports that armed groups have taken control of towns near the capital, Bangui.
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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: 'How we survived when Mekelle was shelled'

BBC Africa - Sun, 20/12/2020 - 01:02
Ethiopia's prime minister says no civilians were killed in the Tigray conflict. Three witnesses say otherwise.
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Uganda election: False claims about Joe Biden and others

BBC Africa - Sun, 20/12/2020 - 01:01
Claims about the US president-elect are among misinformation being widely shared during an election.
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François Bozizé: CAR accuses former president of 'attempted coup'

BBC Africa - Sat, 19/12/2020 - 20:54
The Central African Republic says forces loyal to François Bozizé plan to march on the capital Bangui.
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Hot air ballooning: Joyce Beckwith flies over Maasai Mara in Kenya

BBC Africa - Sat, 19/12/2020 - 11:12
Captain Joyce Beckwith married into a ballooning family and has since become Kenya's first female pilot.
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Covid: The countries worried they won't get the vaccine

BBC Africa - Sat, 19/12/2020 - 01:06
Countries such as Zimbabwe, Mexico and Pakistan are likely to have to wait for the coronavirus vaccine.
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Coronavirus in South Africa: Unravelling the mystery

BBC Africa - Sat, 19/12/2020 - 01:05
Antibody tests show that up to a third of South Africans may have contracted coronavirus during the first wave.
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UN chief commends ‘swift action’ by Nigerian authorities as more than 300 boys are reunited with their families

UN News Centre - Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 22:35
The UN chief on Friday welcomed the release of more than 300 schoolboys forcibly taken from their school in northwest Nigeria a week ago, although others reportedly remain missing.  
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Conflict, floods and COVID-19 push South Sudanese into extreme hunger 

UN News Centre - Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 18:35
Driven by insecurity, the effects of COVID-19, an on-going economic crisis, and the impact of flooding on livelihoods, three UN agencies called on Friday for immediate humanitarian access to eastern South Sudan’s Pibor county, where people are facing catastrophic levels of hunger. 
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Nigeria school attack: Hundreds of boys return home after kidnap ordeal

BBC Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 18:00
Pictures show the schoolboys arriving in Katsina city, a week after they were kidnapped by militants.
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Fighting displaces over 500,000 in northern Mozambique, reports UN refuge agency

UN News Centre - Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 16:43
Attacks by armed groups in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa provinces have displaced more than 530,000 people, many of whom have been forced to move multiple times, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday. 
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Nigeria school attack: Was it really Boko Haram?

BBC Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 11:53
Militant activity is spreading across northern Nigeria with other groups expressing allegiance to Boko Haram
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Libya's Gen Haftar frees Italy fishermen held for months

BBC Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 11:50
Italy's PM wins the release of 18 fishermen based in Sicily who have been detained since September.
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Mozambique's Islamist insurgency: UN warns of rising violence in Cabo Delgado

BBC Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 09:00
The UN also blames a failure to distribute vast mineral and gas revenues to the local population.
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Sierra Leone: Sam Jalloh's got away from the civil war through tennis.

BBC Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 08:55
Sam Jalloh saw his best friend killed in front of him. He vowed to get away - and tennis was his way out.
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Africa's week in pictures: 11 - 17 December 2020

BBC Africa - Fri, 18/12/2020 - 01:12
A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent.
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UN releases emergency funding for civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray, as Africa’s battle against COVID-19 intensifies

UN News Centre - Africa - Thu, 17/12/2020 - 20:18
The UN has released $36.6 million for civilians caught up in the conflict that has roiled Ethiopia’s Tigray region since early last month, in order to secure water, sanitation and lifesaving medical supplies.
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Funding needed to halt ‘life threatening crisis’ facing refugees in Kenya 

UN News Centre - Africa - Thu, 17/12/2020 - 17:55
Amidst a “critical shortage” of resources, hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kenya will lack food unless new funds are swiftly received, the UN’s food relief agency warned on Thursday. 
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Meet South Africa's record-breaking skateboarder Jean-Marc Johannes

BBC Africa - Thu, 17/12/2020 - 16:54
South Africa's record-breaking skateboarder Jean-Marc Johannes on what putting his sport into the Olympics will mean for the continent.
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