The Moroccan coast guard intercepted 168 migrants this week who tried to reach Spain using makeshift crafts, including jet-skis and kayaks, the official MAP news agency reported Saturday. MAP, quoting a military source, said the migrants who had come from sub-Saharan Africa were intercepted on Wednesday and Thursday and brought back to Morocco after receiving […]

Hundreds marched in Angola’s capital Luanda on Saturday to protest against police brutality after a doctor caught breaching anti-coronavirus rules died in custody. Police claim Silvio Dala, 35, suffered a heart attack after he was arrested for driving without a face mask on September 1. But questions were raised after Dala’s body was sent to […]

Mali’s military junta on Saturday vowed to establish an 18-month transition government to return the country to civilian rule after last month’s coup, but key figures protested the army’s continued influence. A junta-appointed committee adopted a “transition charter” by acclamation at the close of talks on the handover of power, a move that paves the […]

Canada reported zero COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours for the first time since March 15, according to public health agency data released late on Friday. Canada’s death toll from the pandemic stood at 9,163 as of Sept. 11, the same as the number of the deaths reported on Sept. 10, government data showed. […]

Liberian President George Weah has declared rape a national emergency and has ordered new measures to tackle the problem after a recent spike of cases in the poor West African state. The moves comes after thousands of Liberians protested rising incidents of rape in the capital Monrovia last month, in a bid to draw attention […]