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Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko delivers a speech during a conference at the Cheikh Anta Diop university in Dakar, on May 16, 2024, as part of his visit to Senegal. (Photo by SEYLLOU / AFP)

Stay home, Senegal PM warns Africans after 90 die in boat accident

Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Saturday implored young people not to attempt the perilous Atlantic route to Europe, days after scores of would-be migrants perished when their boat capsized off Mauritania.
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Water crisis batters war-torn Sudan as temperatures soar

War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan — a nation already facing a litany of horrors — to the shores of a water crisis. “Since the war began, two of
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President of the African National Congress (ANC) Cyril Ramaphosa adresses members of parliament after he was announced President of South Africa after members of parliament voted during the first sitting of the New South African Parliament in Cape Town on June 14, 2024. (Photo by Rodger Bosch / AFP)

South Africa’s Ramaphosa re-elected after coalition deal

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected for a second term after his humbled ANC cobbled together an unprecedented coalition government. Lawmakers in Cape Town voted overwhelmingly on Friday to put Ramaphosa,
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Libya's eastern military chief Khalifa Haftar's media office, shows his son Saddam Haftar attending a military parade in Benghazi. - Libya's military strongman in the east, Khalifa Haftar, has recently appointed his youngest son as chief of land army -- the latest of household appointments in an effort to tighten the family's grip on the divided country's east. In early June, General Saddam Haftar, 33, took over as chief of staff of the land forces within the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), the eastern-based military which his father heads. (Photo by Media office of Khalifa Haftar / AFP) / === RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO /MEDIA OFFICE OF KHALIFA HAFTAR" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS ===

Haftar and sons tighten grip on eastern Libya

The military strongman in the east of divided Libya, Khalifa Haftar, has named one of his sons as army chief, tightening his family’s grip on the oil-rich region. Saddam Haftar is the
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