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Grand-Bassam is a beach resort town on the Ivory Coast renowned for its French colonial architecture and beaches. Recent flooding and the passing of time have taken their toll on the city’s historic structures
An antisemitic assault on restaurant diners in Los Angeles is being investigated as a hate crime, as analysts worry about recent violence targeting a variety of ethnic and religious groups
A second wave of coronavirus struck Somalia this year, as well as political instability over elections that threatened to cause armed conflict. However, as Mohamed Sheikh Nor reports from Mogadishu, although political tensions have eased, the economic effect has not.
Rajab Ali, who lost both of his daughters in a school bombing west of Kabul, is the latest in a rising number of Afghan parents who have lost their children as a result of the continuing violence
Malaria vaccines produced in Burkina Faso aren’t the only ones being tested in the country to combat the mosquito-borne disease. Scientists in the West African country have been breeding genetically engineered mosquitos with the aim of reducing mosquito populations’ ability to transmit malaria
Thousands of civilians have been displaced by renewed violence between the national army and ethnic armed groups in Myanmar’s ethnic states after the military coup in February
The Nigerian Chamber of Commerce has cautioned that rising levels of violence and kidnappings are deterring investors and causing economic damage
After being convicted of threatening a police officer in an online chat room, a Belarusian man faces two years of forced labour, while a 19-year-old arrested for displaying an opposition flag in his student dorm window faces seven years in jail on extremism charges. Following a months-long crackdown on the opposition in the aftermath of a widely regarded rigged presidential election, Belarusian authorities are now tightening their grip on even the tiniest signs of dissent
According to new estimates, the birth rate in the United States has decreased dramatically over the last year for every major race and age group
UNHCR is providing assistance to local farmers in one of Bangladesh’s poorest districts, which is home to 900,000 Rohingya refugees, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic