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More than 300 people have been mobilised to tackle a blaze on the slopes of Tanzania’s famous Mount Kilimanjaro, local officials said Saturday, with police and local people helping firefighters. The fire was burning near the camp Karanga site used by climbers ascending the mountain, at about 4,000 metres altitude on the south side of mountain. Mount Kilimanjaro, situated in the northeast of the country, is Africa’s highest summit at 5,895 metres (19,340 feet). Officials have not yet established how the fire started, but it comes exactly two years after another blaze, which raged for a week in October 2020…

On Thursday (Oct 20), Togo’s security forces took part in a military simulation of a jihadist attack. Two French instructors from the GIGN elite corp oversaw the training course in “specialized intervention techniques The Togolese minister of security attended the exercise French ambassador to Togo. “The President of the Republic, who’s the head of the armed forces, instructed us to take all necessary means to be ready”, Damehame Yark said. “Not that we wish it upon ourselves, however, if one day an attack happens in our country, we’re taking measures now to be able to give some relief to our people,…

Eighteen people, including two policemen, have been killed in communal violence between nomadic herdsmen and farmers in Nigeria’s central Benue state, officials said Thursday. The violence broke out early Wednesday. Herders stormed the farming village of Gbeji in Ukum district, firing indiscriminately, said Paul Hemba, security adviser to the Benue state governor. Disputes between cattle herders and farmers over land, grazing and water rights are common in central and northwestern Nigeria. “According to the latest report I received, 18 people were killed in the attack, two policemen and 16 villagers,” Mr Hemba said. Several others were injured and hospitaliZed. The…

The rollout of the African Continental Free Trade Area is awaited by many, in particular by the border populations. The residents of Cabinda, in the north of Angola, find the Congolese city of Ponta Negra as their biggest business center, but complain about the customs tariffs at the Massabi border. José Somulama, a car spare parts dealer, explains how the exchange works. “These people who are closer to the border, the Kikakongo, bring bananas, banana bunches, they come to sell and bring maiaca (boiled manioc) and the Congolese also come to buy. Now, there are certain people that come from…

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the war in the northern Tigray region “will end and peace will prevail”. He made the remarks on Thursday when he inaugurated a talent development centre in Oromia regional state. “The situation in northern Ethiopia will come to an end, peace will prevail. We will not continue fighting forever. I believe that in a short period of time, we will stand with our Tigrayan brothers for peace and development,” Mr Abiy said as quoted by the bbc. He urged Ethiopians to work together for the country’s prosperity and not to be divided along ethnic…

At least 30 people were killed Thursday when police clashed with demonstrators in the Chadian capital during a banned protest against the ruling military, an AFP journalist saw. Hundreds of demonstrators turned out to mark the date when the military had initially promised to hand over power — a spell that has been extended for another two years. These clashes are taking place after the extension of the “transition” for two years, which was supposed to end on Thursday, October 20. But at the end of September, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno was finally maintained as president until free and democratic…

A new clash between rival tribes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state left at least 15 people dead on Wednesday, according to tribal and medical sources. Last week, clashes in the village of Wad al-Mahi, east of the town of Roseires, between members of the Hausa tribe and rival tribes, claimed the lives of 13 people, according to the UN. “We have received 10 remains at the hospital in Wad al-Mahi,” a medical source said Wednesday. Another source at Roseires hospital said “five bodies and 10 wounded” had been transferred to the facility. The violence has resumed despite the deployment…

The 27-yeard Sudanese joined the protests which toppled longtime president al-Bashir in 2019. If her country still grapples with a conjunction of crises, the climate campaigner warns a bigger problem doesn’t receive the attention is deserves: climate change. “There has been a noticeable increase in temperature. Sudan has always been hot, but it has now become hotter. Moreover there are failed rainy seasons”, she says. Erractic weather patterns – harsh droughts, boiling temperatures then severe floods have affected thousands. Sudan is the world’s fifth most vulnerable country to the impacts of climate change, according to a 2020 ranking in the…

Traders in Ghana’s capital Accra close their stores and businesses in a three-day protest over the soaring cost of living, as the West African country battles the economic fallout from the Ukraine war. Ghana faces a high debt load and inflation at a historic high of 37 percent in September, while the local cedi currency has plummeted against the US dollar. “Prices and import duty have risen due to cedi depreciation and dollar appreciation. So, importers find it difficult to import items due to the hikes in duty and customers no longer come in ” expressed Kwaku Anokye, a merchant. Daily…

Nigeria witnessed one of the biggest demonstrations in its history in October 2020, when youths marched through the streets and major roads in the country in protest against brutalities by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria Police Force (now disbanded). They were, however, ended abruptly after some of the protesters were allegedly killed at the Lekki toll gate on October 20, 2020. Two years on after the incident, organizers and victims of the ENDSARS protests are calling for full implementation of the reports of the judicial panels of inquiry set up by the government to probe the…