Category: Africa

Tue 12  September 2023: The city of Derna in eastern Libya may have seen as many as 2,000 people drown after a strong storm caused disastrous flooding. Thousands feared dead after flooding rips through Libya pic.twitter.com/ckIBeZxrtT — INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) September 12, 2023 Ossama Hamad, the prime minister of the east-based government, said on the […]

Mon 11  September 2023:  Rescuers digging, on Monday, through the rubble after Morocco’s deadly earthquake warned that the traditional mud brick, stone and rough wood housing omnipresent in the High Atlas Mountains reduced the chances of finding survivors, Reuters reports. The magnitude 6.8 quake that struck late on Friday southwest of the city of Marrakesh has killed nearly […]

Sun 10  September 2023: At least 40 people were killed in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Sunday, according to an activist group, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the Emergency Room group said the attack targeted an open market in Mayo neighborhood in South Khartoum. The group posted footage on […]

Sun 10  September 2023: Niger’s military has accused France of gathering forces and equipment in several West African countries with a view to launch a “military intervention” against Niamey. Colonel Amadou Abdramane, a spokesman for Niger’s coup leaders, made the claim on national television late on Saturday. He said France was continuing to deploy its […]

  People recite a prayer in front of the bodies of victims killed in Moulay Brahim [Fadel Senna/AFP] Sun 10  September 2023: Earthquake rescue efforts have continued in Morocco as it mourned the victims of a disaster that killed more than 2,000 people, flattening buildings in cities and villages. Morocco’s Interior Ministry says the death toll […]

Sat 09 September 2023: Moroccan troops and emergency services are scrambling to reach remote mountain villages where casualties are still feared trapped. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck late Friday in a mountainous area 72 kilometres (45 miles) southwest of tourist hotspot Marrakesh, the US Geological Survey reported. In the mountain village of Moulay Brahim near the quake’s […]

Sat 09 September 2023: The inclusion of the African Union into the G20, the coalition of the world’s most powerful countries became the earliest historic step in the G20 Summit that began in New Delhi on Saturday.  “I invite the representative of the African Union to take his place as a permanent member of the […]

Sat 09 September 2023: A powerful earthquake centred in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains killed hundreds of people, the government said, as collapsed buildings and people fled their shuddering homes in several cities. An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 has rocked Morocco, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). According to Moroccan state media, at […]