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2021-06-28 17:57:10 Mali: Attack On UN Base in Mali Injures 12 German Soldiers
‍[VOA] The United Nations said 12 German troops and a Belgian soldier serving in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Friday in an attack in the country's restive north.
The U.N. mission in the country, MINUSMA, had earlier said that 15 peacekeepers were wounded when a temporary operational base in the Gao region was targeted with a vehicle bomb. Later, it corrected the numbers.
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said three of the soldiers were seriously wounded. She told reporters i
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2021-06-27 21:51:05 South Sudan's Returnee Farmers Yearn for Peace to Revive Food Production
‍[RFI] After living for six years in northern Uganda's Rhino Refugee Camp, Muki Nicholas, 24, and his family have returned home to Yei, in the southwestern part of South Sudan, in the hopes of resettling and tilling the land once again. He's one of the 5,000 refugees who are attempting to rebuild their lives after fleeing civil war.
He said they endured the dangerous five-day walk through the bush in sweltering heat, because he couldn't afford to pay for transport without selling their remaining food and clothing
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2021-06-27 20:48:05 Libya: MSF Suspends Work in Libyan Detention Centers in Protest Over Violence
‍[RFI] Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced it would suspend its medical care at two Libyan detention centres due to the unacceptable level of violence, and will not return until conditions improve, according to a statement.
"The persistent pattern of violent incidents and serious harm to refugees and migrants, as well as the risk to the safety of our staff, has reached a level that we are no longer able to accept," said Beatrice Lau, MSF's head of mission in Libya, adding that it was not an ea
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2021-06-27 20:03:05 South Africa: Study Shows a Huge Burden of Undiagnosed Disease in a Rural South African District
‍[The Conversation Africa] South Africa's massive effort over the years to test and treat people for HIV has drastically improved public health. But in that process, other diseases that are highly prevalent may have been neglected.
The country has been reporting lower rates HIV-related deaths. But more South Africans are presenting with noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. And tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death in people living with HIV.
We recently published the findings of research we did i
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2021-06-27 19:15:06 Africa: Rethinking How We Look At Africa's Relationship With China
‍[The Conversation Africa] The topic of China-Africa relations presents an opportunity to rethink the territorial parameters of African studies. In particular, it can help shift attention away from the Atlantic world as the dominant focal point of connections between Africa and the wider world.
The problem is that current scholarship and public opinion have often drifted into old frameworks and colonial motifs.
To take one example, China's ambitions have frequently been construed as part of a new 'Scramble for Africa' with African c
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2021-06-27 17:33:05 Nigeria: Despite Huge Spending Over Decades, Nigeria Unable to Produce Enough Cassava
‍[Premium Times] Farmers, experts and data explain why cassava, one of Nigeria's most iconic foods, perennially remains insufficient and expensive.
Grace Ebit, a farmer in Ibogo, Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State, recalls her childhood with nostalgia. After her father lost his job in the mid-1960s, she dropped out of school and the family struggled to get food.
Her distraught father began to grow cassava and processed garri. That became the turning point.
"The business became big to the extent that we barely
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2021-06-27 16:21:05 Nigeria: Boko Haram, ISWAP Reunite, Pledge Allegiance to New Leader
‍[Premium Times] Four insurgents, drawn from the defunct Boko Haram and ISWAP sects, in the clip, were seen pledging their loyalty to their new commander.
Barely a month and some weeks after Abubakar Shekau, former leader of the factional Boko Haram sect, killed himself after a violent confrontation with some renegade Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) top commanders, PRNigeria has gathered that both Boko Haram and ISWAP fighters have mended fences.
In a 13-minutes long video obtained by PRNigeria, an army of te
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2021-06-27 15:24:05 Madagascar - Can Finding Food Alternatives Save the Endangered Lemur?
‍[RFI] Anthropologists studying endangered lemurs in Madagascar are working with local communities to support the farming of alternative proteins -- as a study shows families hunt on average one lemur per year.
Lemurs are small furry primates with long or very short tails and mouse or fox-like faces that occur naturally only in Madagascar, where there are high levels of hunger. There are 107 lemur species still in existence. But 103 of those species are threatened with extinction. Some of those species have only
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2021-06-27 15:09:04 Africa: Children's Drawings Shed Sinister Light On Cameroon Conflict
‍[DW] The conflict in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon has been raging since 2016. A series of children's drawings shows the degree of violence that pervades their lives. 
"I told them to draw whatever they wanted. After 15 minutes, the kids had completed their task. Most of them were drawing weapons, guns and armored cars," explains child protection caseworker Tatiana Bie from Kumba in southwestern Cameroon. She works for the Reach Out, an NGO which works with victims of conflict in Cameroon's Anglophone
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2021-06-27 15:00:26 West Africa: A Long View Sheds Fresh Light On the History of the Yoruba People in West Africa
‍[The Conversation Africa] The Yoruba are among the most storied groups in Africa. Their ancestral homeland cuts across present-day southwest Nigeria, Benin Republic and Togo in West Africa. They number between 35 and 40 million. Their dynamic culture, philosophy, arts, language, sociology and history have attracted numerous studies.
What has been missing in this rich literature is a deep history that benefits from a diverse range of disciplines and sources. Scholars have long recognised the value of combining different methods and
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