Dozens injured in fire at market in Somaliland
Cause of blaze at Waheen market in Hargeisa, which destroyed hundreds of businesses, is not yet known A massive fire tore through the main market...
Category : Africa
‘We feel safer’: how green energy is brightening refugee lives in Rwanda
Solar panels and cleaner-burning stoves have reduced dangers faced by residents of three camps “The camp has come from the dark into the light,” says...
First food aid for 100 days enters Tigray under ‘humanitarian truce’
Besieged region has an estimated 2 million people suffering from an extreme lack of food A convoy of aid trucks has arrived in Tigray, the...
Zanu-PF faces threat from Zimbabwe’s new opposition party
Citizens Coalition for Change’s byelection success raises concerns of instability Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party may be facing an uphill struggle to secure a clear victory...
UK Foreign Office rushed £4.2bn of aid cuts, official audit finds
Support slashed despite warnings about impact, with offices told not to discuss plans with local partners, says National Audit Office report The British government forced...
Tunisian crisis escalates as president dissolves parliament
Kais Saied acts after parliament votes to repeal decrees he used to assume near total power Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, has issued a decree dissolving...
Britain hands billions to projects linked to labour abuse and climate damage
UK Export Finance used £5.24bn of taxpayer money to fund overseas energy and infrastructure ventures – despite its own review raising concerns The British government...
Eight UN peacekeepers killed in helicopter crash in DRC
Six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb victims of fatal reconnaissance mission, officials say Eight UN peacekeepers – six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb...
Many feared dead after gunmen attack passenger train in Nigeria
Suspected bandits open fire and detonate explosives on train travelling between Abuja and Kaduna Several people have been injured and more are feared dead or...
‘We took our children and ran’: thousands displaced as Senegal’s 40-year-war crosses border
More than 6,ooo people have left their homes as renewed violence in the Casamance region spills into the Gambia It was late morning when the...
