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Sierra Leone: Bio secures second term as opposition leader rejects results/in /by
Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio was re-elected to serve a second term with 56.17 percent of the vote, the head of the electoral commission said Tuesday, prompting the runner-up to "categorically reject" the result.
UN Security Council extends authorization for African Union mission in Somalia/in /by
The UN Security Council on Tuesday extended for six months the authorization of the African Union (AU) force in Somalia, which has begun to withdraw, thus allowing up to 3,000 additional troops to leave by the end of September.
SIerra Leone: Julius Maada Bio re-elected for second term/in /by
Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio re-elected in the first round for a second term at the head of Sierra Leone with 56.17% of the vote, according to the head of the electoral commission.
Sudan: UN warns on possible ethnic conflict amid war/in /by
The conflict in Sudan is taking an ethnic turn in Darfur, the UN said on Tuesday, at a time when the number of people who have fled the fighting abroad exceeds 560,000 and the number of displaced persons in the country is close to two million.
Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray region, officials say/in /by
Hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and the United Nations paused food aid, local officials and researchers say.
South Africa: German foreign minister in Pretoria for talks/in /by
Germany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock was in Pretoria on Tuesday to meet with her South African counterpart Naledi Pandor for the German-South African Binational Commission.
United Kingdom: nearly 200,000 euros per migrant sent to Rwanda/in /by
London's controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost nearly 200,000 euros per person, the British government acknowledged on Tuesday.
At least 3 dead in building collapse in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria, officials say/in /by
At least 3 people were killed when a 14-story apartment building collapsed in Egypt's northern coastal city of Alexandria, authorities said Tuesday.
Al Ahli close to signing Chelsea goalkeeper/in /by

Talks are ongoing but Mendy is expected to join the big-name players moving to the country.

In the Sahel, drug trafficking thrives thanks to armed groups/in /by
Drug trafficking continues to thrive in the Sahel thanks to non-state armed groups which are very active there, indicates the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in its 2023 report published Monday in Niamey.