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[Link] Hundreds of Wagner Men Vanish From Putin’s Designated Exile
Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com
Wagner fighters are reportedly leaving Belarus in droves, just weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin had them exiled in the aftermath of their failed march on Moscow.
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[Link] Former Australian foreign minister features in UK video promoting Britain’s ‘new plan for immigration’
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The former Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer has appeared front-and-centre of a UK Home Office video promoting the British government’s controversial “new plan for immigration” which includes sending asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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[Link] Dozens have finally been sentenced over the 2017 murders of two UN investigators in the Congo
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
About 50 people have been sentenced to death, many in absentia, in Democratic Republic of Congo in connection with the murders of UN experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in 2017, according to a defence lawyer in the case.
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[Link] We Talked to Survivors of Ethiopia’s Brutal Civil War
Read: 23/12/2021 www.vice.com
After 13 months of brutal war between the Ethiopian military and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a rebel group in the country’s north, Tigrayan forces now say they’ve withdrawn from neighboring regions.
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[Link] Omicron 'may already be here in Australia'. Experts say there's more we can do to stop COVID
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Just weeks after Australia declared it was opening its borders to the world, some restrictions have been reimposed in response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19, first detected in South Africa.
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[Link] Niger: two killed and 17 injured in clash with French military convoy
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
At least two people were killed and 18 injured in western Niger on Saturday when protesters clashed with a French military convoy they blocked after it crossed the border from Burkina Faso, Niger’s government said.
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[Link] WHO Names New Variant Of Concern ‘Omicron,’ U.S. Issues Travel Ban
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. and Canada are banning and restricting travel from southern Africa after the World Health Organization named a new, potentially more infectious COVID-19 variant that’s been spreading in the region. On Friday the WHO announced the new B.1.1.
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[Link] After Sierra Leone Explosion, a Health System Is Strained
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Victims are still dying from injuries after a fuel tanker burst into flames last week in Sierra Leone, a country that has no burn units.
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[Link] Al Jazeera bureau chief arrested in Sudan amid deadly anti-coup protests
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Sudanese security forces have raided the home of Al Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief and arrested him, the news outlet has said, a day after street protests across Sudan against a military takeover.
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[Link] Ethiopian rebels form new alliance to oust PM as forces advance on the capital
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The war, which has killed thousands of people and forced more than 2 million from their homes, has intensified in recent weeks. The Tigray People's Liberation Front claims to have captured several towns in recent days and says it is considering marching on the capital.
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[Link] ‘We are living in terror’: Ethiopians say PM’s tactics have stoked war
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Addis Ababa was its usual bustling self a year ago. Events were taking place day and night in the Ethiopian capital; bars and restaurants were filled with visitors from other African countries where stricter anti-Covid measures had been put in place. Now all that has changed.
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[Link] All sides in Ethiopian war committed crimes against civilians, UN report finds
Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au
The report covers most of the year-long conflict, fought by Tigrayan forces against the Ethiopian military and its key allies: forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region and soldiers from the neighbouring nation of Eritrea.
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[Link] Scientist Captures First-Ever Footage of a Tortoise Committing Grisly Murder
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
In a famous Aesop fable, a tortoise beats a hare in a foot race by taking it slow and steady.
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[Link] Angry Mob Lynched a Man Accused of Starting a Wildfire in Algeria
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Djamel Ben Ismail, 38, allegedly started a fire in the Tizi Ouzou district town of Larbaa Nath Irathen.
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[Link] African Game Dev Prototype Fund hopes to boost and support continent’s indie scene
Read: 7/8/2021 www.destructoid.com
Annapurna, Raw Fury, Toge, and others declare financial support A party of independent developers has banded together with Games Industry Africa to announce the formation of the African Game Dev Prototype Fund: an initiative to help fund and support video game developers operating out of Africa.
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[Link] ‘They thought Covid only kills white people’: myths and fear hinder jabs in DRC
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Dr Christian Mayala and Dr Rodin Nzembuni Nduku sit together on a bench outside the Covid ward at Kinshasa’s Mama Yemo hospital.
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[Link] South Africa issues world's first patent listing AI as inventor
Read: 6/8/2021 www.globallegalpost.com
South Africa has become the first country to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence as its inventor and the AI’s owner as the patent's owner.
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[Link] US Copyright Groups Want ‘Adequate’ Anti-Piracy Penalties in South Africa
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
The IIPA, which represents the MPA, RIAA, and other entertainment industry groups, is calling for stricter anti-piracy enforcement in South Africa and a thorough redraft of the country's Copyright Act.
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[Link] UN urges ‘verifiable withdrawal’ of Eritrean troops from Tigray
Read: 14/7/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Human Rights Council approves resolution calling for ‘swift and verifiable withdrawal of Eritrean troops’ from conflict-torn Ethiopian region.
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[Link] 'We forget our troubles': crystal meth use rises during lockdown in Zimbabwe
Read: 26/3/2021 www.theguardian.com
Inside a tiny room in Kuwadzana, a township in Harare, Solomon Sigauke* and his friends talk animatedly about football and listen to loud music. The misty vapour from the crystal meth fills the room as they take turns on a fluorescent pipe.