Armed groups attack Mozambique town closest to gas projects - Sources

Armed groups on Wednesday attacked the northern Mozambique town closest to gas projects worth some $60 billion, two sources told Reuters, striking ever closer to developments that have already stalled due to security problems.
A boy stands next to a donkey loaded with jerry cans by the Atbarah River near the village of Dukouli within the Quraysha locality, located in the Fashaqa al-Sughra agricultural region of Sudan's eastern Gadarif state
Sudan’s cabinet backs UAE mediation in disputes with Ethiopia
Sudan’s transitional cabinet has backed an initiative by the United Arab Emirates to mediate in a border dispute with Ethiopia, as well as over a controversial large dam built by Addis Ababa on the Blue Nile River.
Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s new president, has pledged to fight insecurity and ordered army reinforcements to the southwestern region
Niger observes three days of national mourning after carnage

Niger has declared three days of national mourning in memory of the 137 people who were killed in a series of coordin

Military presence near Aksum Airport in Aksum, Ethiopia
Tigray: Eritrean troops killed more than 100 civilians, rights group
Eritrean soldiers killed more than 100 civilians in the city of Aksum in Tigray in November last year, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a report published on Wednesday.
File photo from UK, Cows are seen in the cow shed at Hartington Creamery near Matlock in the Derbyshire Dales on January 26, 2021
South Africa: 350 dairy cows starved to death at state-funded farm at state-funded farm
Some 350 dairy cows were left to starve to death at a state-funded farm in South Africa after it was found to no longer be in operation, South African media website News24 reported.
File- In this file photo dated Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister's office
Ethiopia's leader Ahmed admits atrocities committed in Tigray
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has for the first time admitted that atrocities were committed during the military offensive in the northern Tigray region.
Tanzania's new President Samia Suluhu Hassan (second right) mourns beside the coffin of the late Tanzanian President John Magufuli during his national funeral at Jamhuri Stadium in Dodoma, central Tanzania on March 22, 2021.
Mourners in Zanzibar pay last respects to Magufuli
Residents of Zanzibar are on Tuesday bidding farewell to the late President John Magufuli.