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CAIRO, Egypt – Military representatives in Somalia announced the arrival of an Egyptian naval vessel loaded with a stockpile that includes anti-aircraft guns and artillery. This cache reached Somali shores after both nations inked a defense pact recently. This agreement has stirred concerns in Ethiopia, which shares a rocky relationship with both Egypt and Somalia. Tensions spiked when Ethiopia formed an accord with North Western State of Somalia, giving it 20 kilometers of Red Sea access in return for…

The Democratic Republic of Congo, currently at the epicentre of a mpox outbreak, received its first shipment of nearly 100,000 doses of vaccines against the disease on Thursday. More than 17,500 cases and 629 deaths have been recorded in the country since the start of the year and the virus is now present in at least 13 African countries. “We are in a health war against mpox,” said Congolese Health Minister Samuel-Roger Kamba.

France has just handed over to the Burkinabe authorities on Saturday, April 17, a final batch of declassified archival documents as part of the investigation into the case of the murder of Thomas Sankara. This third set of documents concerns the archives of the French Ministry of the Interior, in particular the police liaison present in Burkina Faso at the time of the events, and the Directorate -…