The Irreecha festival marks the end of the rainy season and the start of the harvest

Ethiopians mark Irreecha festival amidst pandemic and unrest

Life Style Oct 04
Wearing face masks and white clothes, people from Ethiopia's Oromo nation descended on the capital Addis Ababa to mark the annual thanksgiving festival known as Irreecha on Saturday. The crowds were significantly smaller due to political tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Haacaaluu Hundeessaa was an ethnic Oromo musician known for his protest songs
Ethiopian suspects in killing of musician charged with terrorism
Life Style Oct 04
Ethiopia on Friday filed terrorism charges against four suspects in connection with the killing of a popular political singer whose death ignited days of deadly protests, a spokesman for the attorney general told the Reuters news agency.
File photo of flooding in an African country
Flooding kills 41 in northern Nigeria
Life Style Oct 02
At least 41 people have died due to flooding in northern Nigeria, and more than 10,000 have been forced from their homes
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Two people die in Kenya brawl after bars reopen
Life Style Oct 02
Just a day after bars reopened in Kenya, two people died in a bar brawl in the capital, Nairobi.
Rawlings and gov't delegation
Ghanaians, others mourn with Rawlings, Agbotui family
Life Style Oct 01
Former President Jerry John Rawlings, the Agbotui and allied families have been receiving visitors and messages of commiseration following the death, last Thursday, of Madam Victoria Agbotui, mother of the former President.
Five of those sentenced to death were tried in absentia
Six 'get death sentence' for Egyptian policemen's murder
Life Style Oct 01
An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced six people to death for killing two policemen, the AFP news agency quotes a judicial source as saying.
Lexy and his foster family (KATE STANWORTH)
Italian family fosters Gambian migrant: 'The son we never had'
Life Style Sep 27
Muhammed Sanneh was an orphan when he left The Gambia aged 16 to try and find a way to support his two younger siblings.