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Soldiers loyal to Burkina Faso's latest coup leader Capt. Ibrahim Traore gather outside the National Assembly as Traore was appointed Burkina Faso's transitional president in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday Oct. 14, 2022
Africa   Burkina Faso   France   Photos  
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Burkina Faso junta expel 3 French diplomats over alleged subversive activities
Thu 18 Apr 2024
DAKAR, Senegal — The military Junta ruling Burkina Faso have expelled three French diplomats for alleged subversive activities, according to a government document posted on social media Thursday. | ... (photo: AP / Kilaye Bationo)
FILE  Former South African President Jacob Zuma addresses supporters of the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. South Africa's election commission has ruled that Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections because of Zuma's criminal record. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2021 for defying a court order to appear before a judicial commission that was investigating corruption allegations during his presidency. (AP Photo, File)
Jacob Zuma   Photos   Politics   South Africa  
 Al Jazeera 
Jacob Zuma’s nine lives: How South Africa’s ex-president keeps coming back
Thu 18 Apr 2024
In March, South Africa’s electoral commission barred former president Jacob Zuma from running as a parliamentary candidate in next month’s general elections due to a previous criminal conviction w... (photo: AP / Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
A young girl carries an empty container as she walks across the sands to fill it from a well in Barrah, a desert village in the Sahel belt of Chad, Friday, April 20, 2012. UNICEF estimates that 127,000 children under 5 in Chad's Sahel belt will require lifesaving treatment for severe acute malnutrition this year, with an estimated 1 million expected throughout the wider Sahel region of West and Central Africa in the countries of Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Mauritania  Al Jazeera  Thu 18 Apr 2024
Deadly Sahel heatwave caused by ‘human-induced’ climate change: Study
Human-caused climate change contributed to an unusually intense and lethal hot spell throughout West Africa’s Sahel region in April, according to a study by World Weather Attribution (WWA), an inter... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis)
Africa   Climate change   Photos   Weather  
FILE - People displaced by the ongoing fighting between Congolese forces and M23 rebels gather in a camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. The U.N. human rights chief says the world is forgetting the escalating violence in eastern Congo as conflicts continue in places like Ukraine and Gaza. He visited the region and called for peace and support for millions repeatedly displaced. Eastern Congo has long been overrun by more than 120 armed groups seeking to control the regions rich resources as they carry out mass killings.  Yahoo Daily News  Wed 17 Apr 2024
The U.N. rights chief says eastern Congo's escalating violence is being forgotten by the world
The world is forgetting the escalating violence in eastern Congo as conflicts continue in places like Ukraine and Gaza, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday while visiting the region and calling... (photo: AP / Moses Sawasawa, File)
DR Congo   Human Rights   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: March 23 Movement  
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A digital twin is a virtual model of a physical object. It spans the object's lifecycle and uses real-time data sent from sensors on the object to simulate the behavior and monitor operations. Offshore Technology Tue 16 Apr 2024
Digital twin market to surpass $150bn by 2030, impacting many industries
GlobalData’s Digital Twins report examines growth and users across many industries including power, healthcare and sport. | The digital twin market will be worth $154bn... (photo: AI)
Business   Digital twin market   Global Trading   Photos  
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia Asiatimes Wed 17 Apr 2024
Remembering Cambodia’s genocide in a corner of Africa
Kigali, RWANDA- April 1975 was a cruel month for millions of Cambodians. Forty-nine years ago, on April 17, the Khmer Rouge finally captured Phnom Penh after a five-year ... (photo: Creative Commons / nicolas pascarel)
Cambodia   Photos   Rwanda   United Nations  
Head of UNSMIL Briefs Press after Security Council Meeting on Libya Wtop Tue 16 Apr 2024
UN envoy lashes out at Libya’s feuding parties and their foreign backers, then says he’s resigned
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, lashed out at the country’s feuding parties and their foreign backers at a U.N. Security Council me... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)
Libya   Photos   Politics   United Nations  
File - Young girls pull containers of water as they return to their huts from a well in the village of Lomoputh in northern Kenya Thursday, May 12, 2022. United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths visited the area on Thursday to see the effects of the drought which the U.N. says is a severe climate-induced humanitarian emergency in the Horn of Africa China.dot.org Tue 16 Apr 2024
UN calls for women's participation to boost climate resilience in Africa
NAIROBI, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The dream of a green, resilient, and inclusive future for Africa is within reach once governments harness the ingenuity of grassroots women ... (photo: AP / Brian Inganga)
Africa   Climate change   Photos   United Nations  
FILE - Leader of the Ennahdha party, Rached Ghannouchi, speaks to the media after he was freed by the Tunisia's anti-terrorism unit in Tunis, Tunisia, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Al Jazeera Tue 16 Apr 2024
International support for Tunisia’s jailed opposition leader Ghannouchi
Marking the first anniversary of the arrest of Tunisia’s prominent opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi, an international committee has formed to raise awareness of the ... (photo: AP / Hassene Dridi, File)
Islamic   Photos   Politics   Tunisia  
Crypto coins (Bitcoin, Litecoin) on the table Cryptopolitan Mon 15 Apr 2024
South Africa FSCA greenlights 59 crypto licenses
South Africa’s financial regulator, the FSCA, has approved 59 license applications from cryptocurrency facilities seeking to serve local residents. According to , the F... (photo: Creative Commons)
Photos   South Africa   Trading   Wikipedia: Crypto   crypto  
In this Saturday, April 5, 2014 file photo, family photographs of some of those who died hang in a display in the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, Rwanda Philenews Mon 15 Apr 2024
Because the world is not always beautiful and angelic
On the occasion of the thirty-year anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, The Economist featured an article about the efforts made by the current leader, Paul Kag... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis, File)
Africa   Human Rights   Photos   Rwanda  


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