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Axadle Editorial Desk

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Coverage: Somalia, the Horn of Africa, and African affairs

Axadle Editorial Desk is the newsroom team behind Axadle coverage of Somalia, the Horn of Africa, and wider African affairs. Stories are edited for accuracy, sourcing, and clarity before publication.

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complaints and threats of indefinite strike on Radio Television

Axadle Editorial Desk
Central Africa
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, staff, all categories combined, for national radio and television broadcasts, the official media, threaten to disconnect. A strike notice, for unlimited movement, was submitted yesterday, Monday, August 16, to the general management. there are suspicions of financial mismanagement, but the manager rather thinks that the employees have been manipulated.…

heavy rainfall leads to a new increase

Axadle Editorial Desk
West Africa
A cholera epidemic has raged in Niger for several weeks, particularly in the regions of Maradi and Zinder, which border Nigeria, a country also affected by the disease. Niger's Minister of Public Health, if he wants to be optimistic, urges the population to mobilize. According to the authorities, 600 cases have been identified…

South Africa: Charlotte Maxeke, Mother of Freedom

Axadle Editorial Desk
Southern Africa
South Africa celebrates 150th anniversary of Charlotte Maxeke's birth. Born 1871 and died 1939. She is sometimes considered "the mother of black freedom". This woman fought to defend minorities in the early 20th century. She was one of the founding members of the current presidential party, the ANC, at a congress in 1912. While the struggle against apartheid between 1949 and 1994 dominated the national…