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Party agents take a photo of a seal number of a ballot box after the closing of a voting station during the elections at Old Naledi township, on the outskirts of Gaborone, Botswana, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. Botswana’s ruling party loses election, ending 58-year rule
Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat on Friday after preliminary results showed his party had lost its parliamentary majority by a landslide in this w... (photo: AP / Themba Hadebe) CNN
Botswana Election   Democracy   Mokgweetsi Masisi   Photos   Wikipedia: 2024 Botswana general election  
Protesters throwing rocks and police firing tear gas clash in the Mathare neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, July 12, 2023 The Kenyan Uprising: Realizing Resistance After Decades of Plunder and Poverty
More than two months after its government’s controversial Finance Bill 2024 sparked widespread unrest, the flame of resistance remains bright across Kenya. The youth-le... (photo: AP) GlobalResearch
Africa   Economy   Kenya   Photos  
A woman and a child passes an election poster of ruling party Botswana Democratic Party president Mokgweetsi Masisi in Gaborone, Botswana, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. Botswana’s election decides if a party that’s been in power for 58 years gets another term
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Polls opened in a national election in Botswana on Wednesday as voters decide if one of Africa’s longest-ruling parties stays in power f... (photo: AP / Themba Hadebe) Wtop
Africa   Botswana   Elections   Photos  
Maasai cattle inside the crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area For Tanzania’s Maasai, adapting to climate change may mean less livestock, more trees
The village of Terrat, a settlement of around 14,000 people in the semiarid grassland and acacia forests of the Maasai Steppe, is one of many across northern Tanzania tha... (photo: Creative Commons / Vince Smith) Mongabay
Climate change   Environment   Photos   Tanzania  
SpaceX Starlink rocket Niger signs pact with Starlink for internet services
The military administration in Niger and Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet venture, have signed a pact for internet services in the western African nation, an officia... (photo: Creative Commons) Anadolu Agency
Niger   Photos   Starlink   Wikipedia: Starlink   western African  
XV BRICS Summit family photo BRICS+ wants new world order sans shared values or identity
The last two summits of BRICS countries have raised questions about the coalition’s identity and purpose. This began to come into focus at the summit hosted by South Af... (photo: Creative Commons) Asiatimes
BRICS   China   Photos   Russia  
United Nations peacekeepers guard the area where a U.N. convoy was attacked and the Italian ambassador to Congo killed, in Nyiragongo, North Kivu province, Congo Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Congo wants UN peacekeepers gone. But endless war around minerals is complicating that
GOMA, Congo — The end of one of the world's deadliest and yet most shadowy wars is as difficult to predict as the end of the large peacekeeping force meant to cont... (photo: AP / Justin Kabumba) Newsday
Africa   Congo   Photos   United Nations  
FILE- A view of stranded people due to floods following several days of downpours in Kogi Nigeria, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Authorities in Nigeria say they have activated a national response plan for another round of deadly floods blamed mainly on climate change and infrastructure problems. Climate change-worsened floods wreak havoc in Africa
Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria. | It is always the same story—the Niger River b... (photo: AP / Fatai Campbell, File) Phys Dot Org
Africa   Climate change   Nigeria   Photos  
Chagossians Whitney Tranquille, center, attends a protest to response the U.K. announcement to agree to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius and against their "Exclusion" from Chagos negotiations, outside the House of Parliament, in London, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. Chagos Islands: no happy ending
If you believe the British government (which you should never do), a new agreement will bring justice for the people of the Chagos Islands, who have lived in exile for mo... (photo: AP / Kin Cheung) CyprusMail
Chagos Islands   Diego Garcia   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Chagos Archipelago  
File - People board a bus to leave Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, June 3, 2023, as fighting between the Sudanese Army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces intensified. Activists say 50 killed in Sudan paramilitary attack
Gedaref, Sudan: At least 50 people have been killed in a single attack by Sudanese paramilitaries who have besieged and raided villages in al-Jazira state, activists sa... (photo: AP) The Peninsula
Humanitarian Aid   Photos   Sudan War   UN   Wikipedia: Sudanese civil war (2023present)