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The recent violence in Senegal, sparked by the sentencing of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko, has prompted calls for calm from the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU). In response to the escalating situation, the government has deployed the army in Dakar and other cities, as the death toll reached 15. On Thursday, following […]
The death toll from floods and landslides in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has risen to 203 people dead as more bodies are recovered, an administrative official said. The provisional death toll, announced late on Friday (May 5) by the provincial governor, was at least 176 dead. “Here in Bushushu, 203 bodies […]
The number of victims in Rwanda’s floods has risen to at least 127. Torrential rains have swept through the Western , Southern and Northern provinces destroying homes and causing landslides.According to Rwandan authorities, most of the deaths occurred in the Western Province bordering Lake Kivu . Rwanda’s minister in charge of emergency management, Marie Solange […]