At least 13 others injured after classrooms made out of straw were engulfed in a blaze in Maradi city.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/9/at-least-26-children-die-in-niger-school-fire
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Addis Ababa at risk after fall of Dessie and Kombolcha as PM urges a fight to the death against rebels
The weekend seizure of two key towns on the main road to Addis Ababa has alarmed Ethiopian leaders who fear that the rapid advances by Tigrayan rebel forces may soon threaten the capital itself.
The sudden push into the towns of Dessie and Kombolcha was accompanied by short bursts of intense fighting that had reportedly subsided by Monday evening. While Dessie was confirmed to have fallen to the rebels on Sunday, the fate of Kombolcha was less clear, with accounts of continuing sporadic gunfire.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/01/tigrayan-forces-claim-control-of-two-cities-on-road-to-ethiopias-capital
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WMO report warns 1.3 billion people remain ‘extremely vulnerable’ as continent warms more and faster than world average.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/19/climate-change-threatens-more-than-100-million-in-africa-un
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Energy access is a big issue for businesses in Africa, but can the continent go green as well?
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58652848?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
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UN health agency says West Africa faces complex challenge of multiple outbreaks that could strain healthcare systems.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/19/west-africa-healthcare-strained-by-ebola-covid-outbreaks-who
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At least two people have been killed in pre-election violence in the Southern African country ahead of polls this month.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/1/zambia-deploys-army-to-curb-violence-ahead-of-elections
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Researchers find North Africa’s oldest Stone Age hand-axe manufacturing site, dating back 1.3 million years.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/archaeologists-in-morocco-announce-major-stone-age-find
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Unrest is not a spontaneous uprising of the poor, but a targeted campaign to get political concessions from government.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/7/20/the-insurrection-in-south-africa-is-about-more-than-freeing-zuma
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Africa death toll driven by lack of intensive care beds and oxygen, WHO says; UK also reports 63 more deaths
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More than twice as many children and adolescents were referred to mental health services year on year in England as cases hit a record high.
The findings have been called “heartbreaking” and “awful” by the new chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
It is difficult to consider these numbers and know that behind each one is a child or young person, and a family, who are in distress. Children and young people’s mental health has been neglected for years and in the meantime, we know that the need is increasing. We were already struggling to meet demand before the pandemic. But the pandemic has absolutely resulted in increase in mental health disorders in children and young people.
Related: Young mental health referrals double in England after lockdowns
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Hundreds more bodies than usual are being taken for funerals every day in junta-ruled Myanmar as a new wave of Covid-19 sweeps through the country, services transporting the bodies and arranging ceremonies said.
The number of funerals at the Yay Way cemetery in Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon, was around 200 per day over the past week, well over double the number that would normally be expected, funeral services said.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jul/15/coronavirus-live-news-indonesia-in-worst-case-scenario-as-daily-cases-climb-past-50000
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Matthew Weaver (now); Mattha Busby, Martin Belam and Helen Sullivan (earlier)
Investigation finds UK Aid and USAid money went to centres where ‘condemned’ practice is routinely offered to LGBTQ+ people
The UK government is among major aid donors to have funded clinics in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania that offer so-called “conversion therapies”, which pressurise gay people to “quit” same-sex attraction, an investigation has found.
In a six-month undercover investigation of the centres, reporters from global news website openDemocracy were told being gay is “evil”, “for whites” and a mental health problem. Among them were facilities linked to some of the world’s biggest aid donors, including USAid and the British government’s fund, UK Aid, run by organisations such as UK-based MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes International) and Swiss-based Global Fund.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jul/02/major-aid-donors-found-to-have-funded-conversion-therapy-clinics-in-africa
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Known as one of world’s toughest races, the returning 18-stage event takes place between June 24-27.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/25/kenya-hosts-world-rally-championship-after-19-year-absence
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Study published by UNDP finds death toll caused by 12 years of violence is 10 times higher than previous estimates.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/24/northeast-nigeria-conflict-killed-more-than-300000-children-un
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Minerals minister Lefoko Moagi said the discovery of the yet-to-be named stone could not have come at a better time after the Covid-19 pandemic hit diamond sales in 2020.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/world-s-third-largest-diamond-unearthed-botswana-n1271118
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The UN health agency warns coronavirus cases are surging in many countries on the continent.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/3/africa-faces-rising-threat-of-a-covid-third-wave-who
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Magma detected beneath city and adjoining Lake Kivu, says military governor
Thousands of people scrambled to flee the Congolese city of Goma on Thursday, some picking their way across landscapes scarred with lava, after officials said a second volcanic eruption could happen any time.
Magma, the molten rock that normally stays beneath the earth’s crust, had been detected beneath the city and the adjoining Lake Kivu, Constant Ndima Kongba, the military governor of North Kivu province, said, citing seismic and ground deformation data.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/27/risk-volcanic-eruptions-drc-exodus-goma-democratic-republic-congo-nyiragongo-
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Death toll reaches 32 as lava lake in Mt Nyiragongo’s crater seems to have refilled, prompting fears of second eruption.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/25/volcano-aftershocks-rock-east-drc-raise-fears-of-fresh-eruption
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Volcano Mount Nyiragongo erupted during the night but lava flow seems to have lost intensity
Thousands of residents have abandoned their homes in a major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after lava flows from a nearby volcano reached its outskirts.
Lava from the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo destroyed homes on the edge of Goma, which has a population of about 1 million people, but appeared to be slowing by midday on Sunday, giving hope that further damage may be avoided.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/goma-spared-as-lava-from-mount-nviragongo-volcano-stops-short-of-city
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Hundreds of people in eastern city head towards border with Rwanda after red fumes fill sky and power was cut
The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has ordered the evacuation of Goma after the eruption of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano overlooking the eastern city of nearly 2 million people.
Even before the official announcement on Saturday, thousands of people had started filling the streets and carrying what they could as they headed out of the border city.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/22/nyiragongo-volcano-erupts-in-eastern-congo
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A nun working in war-torn Tigray has shared her harrowing testimony of the atrocities taking place
The Ethiopian nun, who has to remain anonymous for her own security, is working in Mekelle, Tigray’s capital, and surrounding areas, helping some of the tens of thousands of people displaced by the fighting who have been streaming into camps in the hope of finding shelter and food. Both are in short supply. Humanitarian aid is being largely blocked and a wholesale crackdown is seeing civilians being picked off in the countryside, either shot or rounded up and taken to overcrowded prisons. She spoke to Tracy McVeigh this week.
“After the last few months I’m happy to be alive. I have to be OK. Mostly we are going out to the IDP [internally displaced people] camps and the community centres where people are. They are in a bad way.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/14/bodies-are-being-eaten-by-hyenas-girls-of-eight-raped
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Tracy McVeigh
Can the perpetrators of a notorious apartheid-era crime finally be brought to justice in South Africa?
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/people-power/2021/5/6/south-africa-my-father-died-for-this
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