Bamako, Mali – In Bamako, a fuel blockade has exposed the vulnerability of supply routes into the capital. In the north, separatist and armed groups have increasingly coordinated against the state, while the government faces questions over how much territory it can effectively control. On September 10, less than two weeks before Mali’s independence anniversary, the Al Qaeda-affiliated armed group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimeen (JNIM) attacked an army camp in Dioura in central Mali. end of list The attack followed an April offensive in which JNIM and the Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which seeks greater autonomy or independence for northern…
Author: Montage Africa
By Rédaction Africanews and AP Ceuta is on alert. Spanish forces are patrolling the border after fresh calls on social media for migrants to cross from Morocco. The warnings follow a dramatic crisis on July 30 and 31, when more than 70,000 people entered the Spanish territory by swimming around the border fence. Most were later returned, but several thousand remain. Now, with another social-media call reportedly set for September 23, Madrid says it is taking preventive measures to stop another mass entry before it begins. Spain’s foreign minister says he remains in frequent contact with his Moroccan counterpart, while…
By Al Jazeera Staff and AP More than 450,000 people are projected to die from additional heat due to the unusually strong El Nino event over the next six months, according to a research report. The projection, published on Wednesday by the University of Chicago’s Climate Impact Lab, runs to February 2027 and compares estimates of heat-related deaths that could be attributed to El Nino with the level expected in a typical year. end of listResearchers estimate that global land temperatures could climb by about 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.1 degrees Fahrenheit), with extremely hot days 44 percent more frequent than…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP Renewed fighting in Yemen could see the number of refugees fleeing across the Red Sea to Djibouti jump to 10,000, while displacement inside Yemen could swell to over 230,000, the UN warned Tuesday. Yemeni refugees in Djibouti queue for supplies as the tiny African nation rushes to provide aid to thousands of new arrivals. The UN refugee agency says its Djibouti operations are only 15 percent funded – and it’s bracing for more people to arrive. Three thousand Yemenis have already risked the dangerous journey across the Red Sea since the start of September, fleeing…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP Sources on Tuesday said the United States has refused to give Sudan’s de facto leader a visa to travel to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, whose army has fought the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since 2023, was scheduled to address the gathering on Wednesday. Sudanese and Western sources said Washington had linked the issuing of a visa to his acceptance of a 90-day ceasefire. Al-Burhan has addressed the assembly before, twice since the war broke out. Sudan’s UN ambassador has urged the world body to intervene, arguing…
A 65-year-old doctor has appeared in court, the first person in the UK to be charged over the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajinya, who is in custody, confirmed his name and address from the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. He was charged following a seven year British investigation into the killings. He was told he faced a charge of conduct ancillary to genocide and six offences of conduct ancillary to murder, as a crime against humanity. The case was passed to the Old Bailey for a hearing on 9 October. A bail application…
By AFP and Reuters Ethiopian Airlines has suspended flights to three airports in northern Tigray amid an escalation of conflict by an armed group in the region. In a post on Telegram, the airline said that due to the “current situation in the Tigray region”, flights to Mekelle, Axum and Shire had been temporarily suspended from Wednesday. end of list“We sincerely apologise to our valued customers for any inconvenience caused by this suspension. We will inform you once flight operations resume,” the airline said. Flightradar24, which tracks air traffic, also showed on Wednesday morning that the flight between Mekelle and…
By Rédaction Africanews Dozens of people in the United States have sued the manufacturers of popular GLP-1 drugs, claiming that the medicines caused a rare eye condition that can result in permanent vision loss, according to US media reports. The lawsuits target companies behind some of the world’s best-known weight-loss and diabetes treatments, including Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound. The legal action adds another challenge for a rapidly expanding drug industry that analysts expect could generate around $100bn in annual sales within the next decade. According to reports, millions of people in the US have turned to GLP-1 medicines to…
British journalist Mark Doyle, best known for his reporting on conflicts in Africa in the 1990s and 2000s, has died aged 67 after a short illness. After living in Africa, he joined the BBC in 1986. Doyle became East Africa correspondent in 1993 and made his mark covering the Rwandan genocide a year later. As West Africa correspondent from 1997 to 2002, he reported on Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war and aftermath of Liberia’s conflict. Following Doyle’s death, BBC foreign editor Paul Danahar said he was a “legendary figure”, as well as a” brilliant, brave, empathetic reporter”. The BBC’s Andrew…
By Nicolas Haque Dakar, Senegal – Twenty-four hours before health workers across Senegal were due to walk out on strike, Awa Diba went into labour. Her first child was coming into the world as hospitals prepared to limit services to emergency care. end of list “There is a lot of shouting,” Diba says. “I saw things inside the hospital that shocked me.” Her labour lasted 24 hours. Her husband and other relatives were absent. She shared a room with four other women. Cracks ran across the ceiling. The fan did not work. Some rooms had air conditioning; others did not.…