Sierra Leone: Opposition candidate demands electoral commission resignation/in /by
APC leader and presidential candidate Samura Kamara demanded the resignation of the electoral commission ahead of the June 24th presidential elections
Portugal: 47 footballers victim of human trafficking released/in /by
Forty-seven young footballers, including 36 minors, were rescued by Portuguese police in a dragnet launched on Monday against a human trafficking network linked to a training center in northern Portugal, AFP has learned. Thursday with the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF).
Football: Mostafa Mohamed signs for four more years in Nantes/in /by
FC Nantes announced on Wednesday the exercise of the option to buy Egyptian international striker Mostafa Mohamed, who has signed up until 2027.
Sudan: Army accuses RSF of West Darfur governor “assassination”/in /by
The Sudanese army on Wednesday accused the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of "abducting and murdering" the governor of West Darfur state, nearly two months after a power struggle between two rivals plunged the country into a bloody war.
Kenya: Former META employees share experience ahead of trial/in /by
Trevin Brownie hasn't forgotten his first day as a content moderator for Facebook, on the premises of a subcontracting company based in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Mali junta to hold vote on new constitution/in /by
It is a checkpoint on the road to a return of civilian rule in March 2024, under commitments made by the military itself.
FIFA secretary general to leave at the end of the year/in /by
Fifa secretary general Fatma Samoura, the first woman and first non-European to become the world football body's No. 2 in 2016, will be stepping down at the end of the year to devote "more time to (her) family", the organization announced on Wednesday.
Kenya: Meta faces legal offensive from content moderators/in /by
In Kenya, three complaints have been lodged against Meta and the Californian company Sama, to whom the group that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram has subcontracted the moderation of content on its social network for sub-Saharan Africa between 2019 and 2023.
Flood victims denounce aid profiteering in eastern DRC/in /by
A group of victims of May's floods and landslides in eastern DRC have denounced the crisis management committee in charge of aid distribution
South Africa: Clinic hopes to save future of penguins threatened by extinction/in /by
"So sadly the population is declining quite drastically. So since 2015 we lost about 90% of the population in Algoa Bay and around 75% in the Western Cape. So overall the population is declining and there is a real threat that the species can become functionally extinct in the next decade, .. "