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US Raises Alarm Over Growing Islamic State in Northern Somalia PENTAGON — The Islamic State's presence in Somalia has surged almost twofold over the past year, according to the chief of U.S. Africa Command. “Northern Somalia's situation is increasingly worrisome with ISIS numbers on the rise,” Gen. Michael Langley, AFRICOM commander, shared in an exclusive with VOA. While Langley refrained from specifying the exact number of fighters, he noted the group's size had approximately "doubled" in the last…

Seven million folks in northern Ethiopia want pressing assist: UN ADDIS ABABA - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated on Thursday that 7 million folks within the Tigray area of northern Ethiopia wanted pressing assist. "For more than a year, a de facto blockade has deprived 7 million people in Tigray of urgently needed healthcare and access to food. People are dying," stated the…

Nearly three months after President Félix Tshisekedi's tour of the east, his prime minister, Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, has led a large government delegation since Saturday, August 21, in Ituri and northern Kivu, the two provinces that are under the state for five months. as reported from Kinshasa, Patient LigodiThe goal of this…

This is a first for students in the Sahara region Taoudéni, in northern Mali. One hundred students take the test that opens them, perhaps the doors to the school. The trials were organized in Timbuktu, where their families have been displaced since the early 2010s. The exam began on Monday with the dictation-question test.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The United States has raised concerns over attacks on Eritrean refugees in Tigray, adding that "such aggression should end immediately." A number of Eritreans are living in Tigray after being displaced from their homes. A spokesperson for the Stage Department said Tuesday that Washington was extremely "concerned" about the attacks, calling them "unnecessary and backward" in a statement. "We are deeply concerned by credible reports of attacks by military forces affiliated with the Tigray Defense…

In the very conservative and religious community of northern Nigeria, words are gradually emerging about sexual violence. The fear of stigma is still very strong and drives many victims to shut up, but society is starting to change. From our special correspondent in Kano,It was during his community service at the Kano State…

Eritrean troops withdraw from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region MEKELLE, Ethiopia - After months of complaints of human rights violations, rapes and killings, Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region have withdrew, reports say, just hours after the Ethiopian federal government declared a ceasefire. one-sided fire in the area. For months, Eritrean troops have controlled sections of…

In Burkina Faso, the government has been the target of many critics since the jihadist attack that killed 132 people in Solhan, on the night of June 4-5, 2021. After civil society, it is the opposition that wants to demonstrate next Saturday, July 3. Mr Ousseni Tamboura is the Minister of Communications and spokesman for the Burkinabè Government. While in Paris, he answered questions from Chirstophe Boisbouvier. .

In Mali on Tuesday (June 15), Nigerian and French soldiers, who led a joint reconnaissance operation, fought against jihadists from the Islamic State group in the Greater Sahara (EIGS). A Nigerian soldier was killed, another wounded and two French soldiers from the Barkhane force were also injured in this operation, according to…

Resumption of clashes in northern Kanem between the insurgent factions and the military that vowed to "wipe them out" after President Idriss Déby. Head to head, considered one of the insurgent columns that had taken refuge in close by Niger in opposition to items whereas the Chadian military despatched out many reinforcements since Tuesday, April 27, which we may see in the town of Mao for 2 days.…