Mali closes schools due to fuel shortage
Africa • Oct 28, 2025, 11:51 AM
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Malian authorities announced on Sunday the suspension of classes in schools and universities for two weeks nationwide due to a fuel shortage. Since September, jihadists from JNIM have imposed a blockade on roads, preventing the import of fuel from neighboring countries. The group, affiliated with Al-Qaeda, has been attacking fuel trucks coming from Senegal and Ivory Coast—key transit countries for most of the nation’s imports.
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Papers on Sudan: A massacre so bloody, you can see it from space
Africa • 11:48 AM
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PRESS REVIEW – Wednesday, October 29, 2025: First, Spanish papers are commemorating last year's deadly floods which killed 237 people. Next, mass civilian casualties are reported in El-Fasher as humanitarian organisations say they have found evidence of
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"Sudanese feel forgotten" as Darfur crisis escalates
Africa • 11:19 AM
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"Sudanese feel they have been forgotten by the international community," Mathilde Vu, Sudan Advocacy Manager with the Norwegian Refugee Council, tells Oliver Farry, as the humanitarian crisis in El-Fasher escalates. The capture of this city, the historic
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More than 2,400 young Moroccans face prosecution over Gen Z protests
Africa • 10:33 AM
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More than 2,400 young Moroccans face trial for their participation in the so-called Gen Z protests that recently swept across the country, calling for fairer education and health care systems. Hundreds of people, many of them minors, have already been co
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The fall of El-Fasher: A turning point in Sudan's brutal civil war?
Africa • 9:35 AM
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First it was a revolution confiscated, then a dispute between coup leaders that became a civil war. Three years on, Sudan is wondering if the fall of a key city in the western Darfur region is the cue for a second partition of the country. The massacre o
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Low turnout mars Tanzania's presidential election as opposition barred from race
Africa • 4:07 AM
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The presidential election in Tanzania is being marred by low turnout as the main challengers to President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s grip on power have either been jailed or disqualified from the race. Protests have also been banned, and some voters say they
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