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 for another five-year term. | T... (photo: AP / Themba Hadebe) Wtop Africa Botswana Elections Photos 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 that has suffered increasingly fr... (photo: Creative Commons / Vince Smith) Mongabay Climate change Environment Photos Tanzania Top Stories 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 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 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 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 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 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)
