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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE A Malawian court sentenced members of a trafficking ring to a total of 56 years in prison for selling wildlife parts. The nine convicted traffickers were part of the Lin-Zhang crime syndicate and included seven…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Ivoirian forces captured an extremist leader and a large number of fighters responsible for an attack on a border post. Defence Minister Hamed Bakayoko did not name the suspected terrorist but said he was…

ADF STAFF After a push to recruit and train more female pilots, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) announced it had conducted an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) mission led entirely by a female team. The mission, which used…

VOICE OF AMERICA Shejirina Moni sits beside her children in front of their makeshift home in Juba, South Sudan’s capital. Six of her children have died of various illnesses. She has three surviving. “The first one died at 9 months,”…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Dozens of locals line up eagerly as the train heaves to a halt at a station in a remote rural region of South Africa’s coastal Eastern Cape province. The so-called Train of Hope has come to provide COVID-19…

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Scientists have discovered a microbe that protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. Team members in Kenya and the United Kingdom said the finding has “enormous potential” to control the disease.…