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September 09, 2023
Tunisian Wines Hit by Heatwave

TUNIS - Tunisia's blisteringly hot summer has hit Tunisia's small wine industry, damaging or destroying grapes and leaving farmers and vintners to fear for their future as climate change brings hotter, drier weather to North Africa.
September 08, 2023
Suspected Drone Strike Kills Civilians, Extremists in Somalia

MOGADISHU — A suspected drone strike in central Somalia killed five civilians and three al-Shabaab militants, according to two local leaders, after the fighters sought refuge in a house compound containing a family.
September 08, 2023
Sierra Leone Plunges into Darkness as Turkish Power Ship Shutdowns

FREETOWN — Sierra Leone's capital Freetown has been hit by power cuts after Turkey's Karpowership switched off the electricity supply due to an unpaid debt of around $40 million, the energy minister said on Friday.
September 08, 2023
Survivors of Johannesburg Building Fire Mourn Victims Killed in Blaze

JOHANNESBURG — Still in the clothes he was wearing when he jumped out of his burning building a week ago, Abdul Witman took a seat in the pews of Johannesburg's Central Methodist Mission church on Friday to mourn the more than 70 people killed in the blaze.
September 08, 2023
Authorities: 18 Dead, 12 Injured in Eastern DRC Attack

BENI — Local authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province said armed men attacked a village in the nation’s eastern province on Thursday kiling at least 18 people and injuring 12.
September 07, 2023
Chad Leader, US Envoy to UN Discuss Election Challenges

N'DJAMENA — Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby spoke with the U.S. envoy to the United Nations about challenges to holding an election, the envoy said on Thursday, more than two years after bypassing the central African country's constitution to install himself as leader.
September 07, 2023
US Envoy to UN Vows Response to Sudan Atrocities

The United States envoy to the United Nations said the U.S. will do "everything in our power to prevent and respond to mass atrocities" during Sudan's war. Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the comment in a Chad border town on Wednesday as she met with Sudanese refugees who had fled ethnic and sexual violence. Thomas-Greenfield compared the current situation with the atrocities committed in Sudan's Darfur region in the early 2000s. "I have to tell you that I was really shaken to my core by some of the horrors that Sudanese people have endured,” the U.S. envoy said.
September 07, 2023
RSF Deputy Leader: US Decision to Sanction Me is ‘Unfair'

The deputy leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, Abdelrahim Dagalo said on Thursday that sanctions imposed on him by the United States were "unfair." The U.S. targeted Dagalo over human rights abuses, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced the sanctions during a trip to Chad's border with Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled ongoing violence in Sudan.
September 07, 2023
UN Pledges Support for Gabon's Civilian Transition

LIBREVILLE — A United Nations representative told Gabon's military leader that U.N. institutions stood ready to support the country as it transitions back to constitutional order, following a coup that ended the Bongo family's nearly 56 years of dynastic autocracy.
September 07, 2023
AU to Receive Permanent G20 Membership

JOHANNESBURG/NEW DELHI — Sources close to the African Union Thursday said the regional bloc is set to receive its membership into the Group of 20, the global trade bloc that comprises of the world’s richest and most powerful nations.
September 06, 2023
African Leaders Propose Global Taxes, Financial Reforms to Tackle Climate

African leaders on Wednesday proposed new global taxes and reforms to international financial institutions to help fund climate change action in a declaration that will form the basis of their negotiating position at November's COP28 summit. The Nairobi Declaration capped the three-day Africa Climate Summit in Kenya, which was dominated by discussions of how to mobilize financing to adapt to increasingly extreme weather, conserve natural resources and develop renewable energy. "We demand a fair playing ground for our countries to access the investment needed to unlock the potential and translate it into opportunities," said Kenyan President William Ruto.
September 06, 2023
UK Set to Declare Wagner a Terrorist Organization

LONDON — Britain is set to declare the Russian mercenary Wagner Group to be a terrorist organization, making it illegal to be a member or to support it, the government said on Wednesday.
September 05, 2023
CAR President Mediating Gabon-ECCAS Dispute

LIBREVILLE — Central African Republic President Faustin Touadera held closed-door talks with Gabon's junta-appointed leader in Libreville on Tuesday in the wake of the main regional bloc's condemnation of the Aug. 30 coup.
September 05, 2023
How Ugandan Coffee Farmers Defy Climate Change

Ugandan coffee farmers are deploying modern technology like drip irrigation and artificial mulching to beat the effects of climate change, which is making production of the crop increasingly tougher in Africa's top exporter of the bean. “I don’t know what next year brings, I don't know when the next rains will be, but if you have water and mitigate this as much as possible, then the crops will not suffer,” said Allan Green, a Ugandan coffee farmer.
September 05, 2023
Nigerian Workers Challenge Tinubu's Economic Reforms

ABUJA — Nigerian workers Tuesday went on strike to demand a reversal of reforms implemented by President Bola Tinubu with the mandate of reviving economic growth in the West African nation.
September 04, 2023
Africa Experiences Unprecedented Warming

Africa is heating up at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and enduring more severe climate and weather disasters such as droughts, a joint report by United Nations and African Union said on Monday, warning that climate change could stoke conflict over resources. The report, coinciding with Africa's first climate summit in Kenya, where financing is set to be in focus, noted the average rate of warming in Africa was 0.3 degrees Celsius per decade in the 1991–2022 period, compared with 0.2 degrees in the world as a whole.
September 04, 2023
US Climate Change Envoy Laments Climate Change Impact on Africa

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told the African Union climate summit in Nairobi Monday that climate change is "one of the most dangerous issues in all of human history," stating that the problem was impacting mostly Africa and other "low lying status" nations. Earlier, Kenyan President William Ruto addressed Africa's first climate summit, urging African leaders to seize the opportunity presented by climate finance to attract billions of dollars in investment to the continent. Organizers say they anticipate hundreds of millions of dollars in deals to be announced at the three-day summit.
September 04, 2023
Xi Jinping to Skip G20 Summit in India

BEIJING — Premier Li Qiang will lead China's delegation at a G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, China's foreign ministry said on Monday, indicating President Xi Jinping would not attend and scuppering chances of a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden there.
September 04, 2023
South Africa Inquiry Finds no Evidence of Russia Arms Shipment

JOHANNESBURG — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that an independent inquiry has found no evidence that a Russian ship had collected weapons from the country late last year destined for Russia.
September 02, 2023
Uber Rolls Out New Electric Motorbike Fleet in Kenya

Ride-hailing company Uber launched an electric motorbike service in Kenya, its first in Africa, as the company seeks to make its global platform emissions free by 2040. “We are launching a fleet of electric Boda Bodas that will be zooming around the city, and we are really excited for the citizens to be able to experience this product, as soon as you get onto it you will experience lower vibrations, less sound..,” said Kagiso Khaole, Uber sub-Saharan managing director.

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