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WATCH: Glastonbury festival’s historic lineup
The UK's Glastonbury Festival, held at Worthy Farm in southwest England, opened on Wednesday, welcoming attendees to one of the world's most renowned summer music events.
Opposition activists arrested in a crackdown in Mali were moved to prisons
Mali, a landlocked nation in the semiarid region of Sahel, has been embroiled in political instability that swept across West and Central Africa over the last decade.
Samuel Eto’o questioned by CAF over match-fixing
The President of Cameroon's Football Federation had a session with the disciplinary panel of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Tuesday. The accusations contend that Eto'o irregularly helped one club to rise to the top of the Cameroonian League two years ago
More than 14 months of war severely affects Sudan’s health sector
More than 14 months of war has severely affected Sudan's health sector, leaving many hospitals and medical facilities closed, damaged or burnt.
UN experts accuse Sudan’s warring parties of weaponizing starvation
Sudan plunged into chaos in April last year when simmering tensions between the country’s military and a notorious paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum and elsewhere in the country.
Mali civil society lauds war crimes conviction of Islamist police chief
Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz commanded the so-called Islamic police during the occupation of Timbuktu by Islamist groups from 2012. It was during this time that armed groups enforced a strict code of Islamic law. Women and girls suffered in particular, facing corporal punishment and imprisonment
Haitians brace for Kenyan Police showdown with Gangs
"I'm asking the prime minister and the Kenyans to free Haiti from these gangs," said Mathurin Jean François, a 30-year-old math teacher who has been unemployed for two years because gang violence forced his school to close.
ICC convicts al-Qaida-linked leader of atrocities in Mali
Prosecutors say he was a key member of Ansar Dine, an Islamic extremist group with links to al-Qaida that held power in northern Mali at the time.
Sisters make colourful hospital gowns for children in the US and Africa
Giuliana Demma was inspired by seeing her baby cousin wearing an ugly, ill-fitting gown while hospitalised with brain cancer.
WATCH: NASA enhances weather observation with GOES-U satellite launch
NASA launched the GOES-U weather satellite on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center.