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[Premium Times] The Finnish police said Mr Ekpa "has contributed to violence and crimes against civilians in South-eastern Nigeria."

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa's National Disaster Management Centre has, in terms Section 23 of the Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002, classified the recent uptick in foodborne illnesses across the country as a national disaster.

[Vanguard] The Abia State Police Command has rescued two officers, ASP Etim Obungha and Corporal Chukwu Odoemelam, who were injured during an attack at a checkpoint in Asaga, Ohafia Local Government Area.

[Liberian Observer] Barely 72 hours after the executive submitted the 2025 draft national budget to the House of Representatives, opposition leader Simeon Freeman of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC) has criticized the Unity Party led government's fiscal policies, labeling them as ineffective. He highlighted the economic challenges facing ordinary Liberians and residents under the current administration.

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA -- The National Rehabilitation Commission of Ethiopia announced that the process of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-militants and relocating them to rehabilitation centers in the country will commence this week.

[Capital FM] Kisii -- Kenya Women Parliamentarians Association(KEWOPA) has asked the president to declare femicide a national disaster following the recent killings of women in the country.

[Ghanaian Times] The Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has seized a 40-foot container at the Tema Port.

[VOA] Journalist Betlehem Isaak, the daughter of journalist Dawit Isaak -- a dual Eritrean-Swedish citizen imprisoned without trial in Eritrea since 2001-- accepted the 2024 Edelstam Prize on her father's behalf Tuesday during a ceremony at the House of Nobility in Stockholm.

[Business Day Africa] Global coffee prices eased this week following the extension of the European Union's deforestation law and favourable rainfall in Brazil.

[Dabanga] Cairo / Amsterdam -- After Radio Dabanga's English team obtained The Disaster, a book written by Saad Obeid, professor in theatre at the Sudan University, about life in Omdurman during the first five months of the war, it was decided to publish excerpts of the text. Sharing Obeid's memories means sharing the experiences of many Sudanese in areas occupied by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who lived through the same dangers, mental and physical assaults, perhaps even worse.

[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- International partners expressed deep concern over the escalating dispute between Somalia's Federal Government and the Jubaland State following the recent National Consultative Council (NCC) meeting.

[Premium Times] The petrol tanker exploded in Majiya town in Jigawa on 14 October.

[Premium Times] "People don't understand how I felt; I was down and didn't want to partake in Miss Universe".

[SAnews.gov.za] Eskom has reached a new milestone having recorded its longest stretch of not implementing load shedding in five years.

[Daily News] President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced that 20 people lost their lives in the Kariakoo building collapse as of Wednesday morning.

[263Chat] Zimbabwe's agriculture sector, long dominated by smallholder farmers, is undergoing a women-led transformation.

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[VOA] Washington -- The Islamic State terror group's small but influential affiliate in Somalia is growing, thanks in part to what the United Nations describes as an "influx of foreign fighters."

[VOA] Maputo, Mozambique -- In a state of the nation address late Tuesday, outgoing Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi invited the four presidential candidates for a dialogue as part of a bid to end post-election unrest that has left several people dead and dozens of others injured.

[VOA] Lusaka, Zambia -- In Zambia, Catholic bishops raised the alarm this week about increased arrests and prolonged detentions of opposition leaders.

[New Zimbabwe] Former First Lady Grace Mugabe broke down in court on Wednesday upon glimpsing the belongings of her husband, late long-time ruler Robert Mugabe.

[The Herald] On a small farm in Nyazvidzi in Gutu District, Tendai, a goat farmer, noticed that several of his animals had developed a persistent cough.

[AI London] Reacting to the abduction of Dr. Kizza Besigye, Ugandan opposition politician and former presidential candidate for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) in Nairobi, Kenya on 16 November and his arraignment at a military court in Kampala on 20 November, Amnesty International's Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said:

[UN News] The future of childhood 'hangs in the balance' as three major global forces reshape children's lives, according to UN Children's Fund UNICEF's flagship report released on World Children's Day.

[The Conversation Africa] Scientists have found new evidence that desertification, potentially linked to global warming, leads to large amounts of nutrient-rich dust landing in the sea, causing ocean algae to grow rapidly. Biological oceanographer John A. Gittings and an international group of researchers have found an example of this phenomenon in the Indian Ocean south-east of Madagascar.

[The Conversation Africa] In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back.

[African Arguments] TotalEnergies' charm offensive has ramped up, having been found guilty of making misleading claims about its commitment to sustainability this year.

[allAfrica] This week, the Swiss company Mitrelli celebrated another milestone in the West African country of Angola, inaugurating its third state of the art hospital in the space of a year. The Cuanza Norte General Hospital, together with the two previously inaugurated hospitals -- the General Hospital in Cuanza Sul (October 2024) and the Bengo General Hospital (November 2023) -- contributes to the new expanded healthcare network which reaches over 3 million residents, offering a total of 600 beds

[Nyasa Times] Malawi and Zambia, just like other Southern African Development Community (Sadc) countries, have spoken out about the relationship with Russia amid rising concerns that it is 'a double-edged sword'.

[Capital FM] National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Kenya Party leader Martha Karua has demanded accountability from Kenyan security agencies regarding the alleged abduction of Ugandan opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye in Nairobi and his subsequent detention in a Ugandan military jail.

[African Development Bank (AfDB)] Multilateral development banks (MDBs) today issued a joint statement at COP29 in Baku outlining financial support and other measures for countries to achieve ambitious climate outcomes.

[InfoWire] Day -14. The countdown is on. Scheduled from November 27 to December 2, 2024, at the Parc des Expositions in Abidjan, the inaugural International Exhibition of Extractive and Energy Resources (SIREXE) is fast approaching. The SIREXE organizing committee aims to extend a traditional welcome - "Akwaba" - to the three types of attendees expected: institutional actors, professionals in the extractive and energy sector, and the general public.

[African Development Bank (AfDB)] African policymakers and international partners meeting at this year's UN Climate Change Conference, COP29 on Tuesday highlighted the urgent crisis posed by lack of access to clean cooking, a challenge impacting 1.2 billion people across Africa and leading to millions of premature deaths annually.