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Veteran broadcaster Eamonn Holmes is recovering in hospital after suffering a stroke, GB News has confirmed. "Eamonn was taken ill last week and it was later confirmed he had suffered a stroke," a GB News spokesperson said. "He is currently responding well to treatment. "Eamonn has asked for privacy as he focuses on getting better. The 66-year-old presenter, who was born in Belfast, fronts GB News Breakfast alongside co-host Ellie Costello. GB News said Alex Armstrong will present the programme this week while Holmes…

In southern Somalia’s Ladan camp, a child’s cry can be heard—but for the most malnourished youngsters, even sound can be out of reach. Mothers there are focused on a single question: whether their children will survive. At the Ladan camp, on the outskirts of the town of Dollow, families who have fled drought-stricken areas arrive with little more than their children. Their farms and livestock were wiped out after four failed rainy seasons, leaving displaced people to seek shelter in crowded conditions where hope is measured…

Sudan’s forgotten holocaust: a war sustained by outsiders and global indifference Two and a half years into a war that has shredded a state and its institutions, Sudan resembles a country unmade. The numbers are blunt instruments: around 12 million people uprooted, 24 million facing acute food shortages and as many as 150,000 killed or missing. Behind the figures are homes burned to foundations, hospitals turned into battlegrounds and a generation of children outside the classroom. “Sudan has been completely turned upside…

Mauritius has been a model of economic success in Africa for decades and bears the brunt of the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. The industrial activity is experiencing a decline of 15.2%, which translates into the island's worst economy in 40 years. This is the consequence of the containment from last year. And the reconstruction in a month should intensify this brutal economic slippage.…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the curfew, which runs from 9pm to 5pm, has been in effect since Friday. An unparalleled measure across the country to limit or even stop the spread of coronavirus, the fall of which is increasing. But a few days after the launch, the consequences of the curfew are felt by many Kinshasa. .

In Thiaroye, in a suburb of Dakar, fishermen returned from their voyage this week with pustules and pimples on their skin. The causes are not yet known, but the pollution trail is mainly advanced.