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Mobile and internet services return across Afghanistan after 48-hour blackout Mobile phone and internet services were restored across much of Afghanistan on Wednesday afternoon, local residents and telecommunications firms said, ending an abrupt 48‑hour outage that left banks, remittances, flights and online classrooms in disarray. Subscribers of Roshan and Etisalat — the country’s largest mobile operators, both with significant foreign ownership — reported signal returning late in the day in Kabul and in provincial…

Air relations between Kenya and Somalia were suspended in May, despite the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries, which were suspended in December last year by Mogadishu due to Kenya's "interference" in the neighbor's affairs. The two countries now say they want to start "normalizing" their relations. All…

In Madagascar, twenty-five years after the fire that destroyed part of Rova, the enclosure of the Queen's Palace in the capital Antananarivo, President of the Republic Andry Rajoelina on Friday, November 6, was inaugurated with great pomp, in front of a Parterre of prestigious guests, the previously restored Queen's Palace. The day before, Madagascar had recovered the crown from the last Malagasy queen…

Ivory Coast should allow former President Laurent Gbagbo, who is barred from running in next month's main presidential election, to vote in the vote, the African Court of Human Rights and Peoples' Rights said on Friday. The court, set up by members of the African Union in 2004, asked Côte d'Ivoire to "take the necessary steps to immediately remove all obstacles" that prevented Gbagbo from being added to the electoral roll. Ivory Coast withdrew its recognition of the Court's jurisdiction back in April this year.…