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At least 2.8 million people are projected to face high levels of acute food insecurity and hunger in Somalia, the United Nations humanitarian agency warned on Thursday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said more than 80 percent of Somalia was facing moderate to severe drought conditions. FILE PHOTO: A woman fleeing …
Tanzania’s anti-narcotics watchdog said on Thursday it has seized 88.27 kilograms of heroin and methamphetamine. Gerald Kusaya, the commissioner-general for the Drug Control and Enforcement Authority (DCEA), said the drugs were seized in the outskirts of the commercial Dar es Salaam. “The drugs were hidden in a car and we are holding the driver,” Kusaya told a news conference in Dar es Salaam. Kusaya said the heroin weighed 12.25 kilograms and the methamphetamine weighed 76.02 kilograms. He warned people …
World number 24 Ons Jabeur of Tunisia survived a scare to defeat Leylah Annie Fernandez on Thursday and advance to the quarterfinals of the WTA Birmingham Classic. Jabeur won in three sets 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 in just over two hours to set up a date with Russia’s Anastasia Potapova. Ons Jabeur of Tunisia celebrates victory over …
Locals queue to register details for COVID-19 vaccination exercise at Wilkins Hospital in Harare, capital of Zimbabwe, March 24, 2021. (Xinhua/Shaun Jusa) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 5,108,890 as of Thursday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
Unknown gunmen on Thursday attacked a secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kebbi, killed one policeman and abducted an unspecified number of students and five teachers, according to the police. FILE PHOTO: Members of the Nigerian Police force during a past event. (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nafiu Abubakar, a spokesman for the …
