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https://youtu.be/NX98mbAbrqk Credit to AFP. Around 730 children have died in nutrition centers across Somalia since January, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning the true figure could be much higher, with the country nearing famine. Millions of people are at risk of starvation across the Horn of Africa, which is in the grip of the worst drought in four decades after four failed rainy seasons wiped out livestock and crops. “Malnutrition has reached an unprecedented level,” said Wafaa Saeed, the Somalia representative for the UN children’s agency UNICEF. “Around 730 children are reported to have died in nutrition centers across the…

https://youtu.be/hM9rMWOizC0 The most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in years battered its southern region Tuesday, dumping almost a meter (3 feet) of rain, destroying roads and felling power lines, leaving 20,000 homes without electricity as thousands of people fled to safer ground. AMN Reporters.

At least one person was killed in the eastern Congolese city of Beni on Tuesday when shots were fired during another protest against the United Nations’ MONUSCO peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a police spokesperson said. In a climate of anti-UN sentiment in the country, motorcyclists pelted a column of peacekeepers’ vehicles and prevented their progress. The peacekeepers returned fire to clear a path. “Unfortunately, a stray bullet hit a driver who died,” police spokesman Nasson Murara in Beni (North Kivu, east) told AFP. An investigation is being conducted by officers of the judicial police to “identify…

“A lot of soul, a lot of funk”: this is how the jazz and Afrobeat group Kokoroko describe themselves, as they open the Jazz à La Villette festival in Paris. This American band has members coming come from New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles… so many jazz strongholds in the country where this music was born a little over a century ago. “I would actually say we never really played what people would call jazz. I think we fall under that category because it’s improvised music and there are live instruments. But if you’re a jazz purist and you…

In this episode of Business Africa: Japan wants to transform its relationship with the African continent and this new vision was presented at the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development; in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, inflation has reached a record high, resulting in an increase in the cost of living, including the price of medicines, leading to a high flow of counterfeit pharmaceuticals; and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, diamond production is falling, but the value of exports in dollar terms is going in a different direction. Japan-Africa: a redefined partnership The eighth edition of TICAD ended in…

The Portuguese prime minister and the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, have expressed satisfaction with the resumption of bilateral meetings, and António Costa reaffirmed “every commitment” to continue working with that African country. These positions were taken in the opening moments of the extended meeting of the two delegations at the Fifth Luso-Moçambican Summit, at the Presidency of the Republic of Mozambique, after the two leaders had earlier met Thursday behind closed doors. On the occasion, the President of the Republic of Mozambique thanked the Prime Minister for accepting the invitation to attend the summit being held…

A migrant center on the Italian island of Lampedusa has become further overcrowded as the number of migrants arriving from North Africa as increased. The center was built for around 350 people but is now hosting around 1,400 migrants. Most migrants come from Tunisia and Libya. On Monday, more than 700 migrants arrived on the island. According to the Italian Ministry of Interior, 57,000 people have reached Italy by crossing the central Mediterranean Sea so far in 2022. Over the same period, 1,283 people either died or went missing in the attempt to cross the sea, according to the International…

The Royal Moroccan Football Federation announced on Wednesday the appointment of Walid Regragui as the new manager of the Atlas Lions. The contract with the former Wydad coach runs until 2026. “We have a big challenge, we don’t have enough time, we have to be aware that we will participate in the World Cup not to play only three matches, the players agree with that, and of course the players who will be in the stadium, so I expect a lot from them, I will trust them and I will send them the message of the supporters who are waiting…

Lawyers representing Ivorian activist Pulcherie Gbalet have denounced her latest detention as a plot to silence her. The arrests follow a trip to Mali where 49 Ivorian soldiers have been detained since July 10th. On Wednesday the Ivorian prosecution accused Gbalet of “colluding with foreign agents” with the aim of discrediting the state. Pulcherie Gbalet’s lawyer, Eric Saki, denounced the accusation. “We find it curious that a deputy (MP Amara Fofana, ed.) from our republic goes out on social networks, and uses terms that can be interpreted as threats. And only a few hours later the Public Prosecutor initiates proceedings against…

President Jair Bolsonaro accused leftist opponent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of massive corruption, who in turn laid the blame of “destroying Brazil” on the incumbent. Brazil’s main presidential candidates on Sunday locked horns with accusations of corruption and threats to democracy during their first election debate for the presidential polls slated to be held in October. Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro accused leftist opponent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of massive corruption, who in turn laid the blame of “destroying Brazil” on the incumbent. “Your government was the most corrupt in Brazilian history,” said Bolsonaro, taking a jab at Lula over…