Thousands flee Niassa as jihadist attacks spread to other parts of Mozambique

Nearly 4 000 Mozambicans have fled their villages in a month due to intensifying jihadist attacks in Niassa, a province neighbouring insurgency hotbed Cabo Delgado, a government official said Friday.
#mozambique #cabodelgado

Five killed in protests against military rule in Sudan, doctors say

Five people were killed during a crackdown by Sudanese security forces on nationwide protests against military rule on 30 December, a doctors' committee said on Friday.
#sudan #sudanprotest

Golden Girls star Betty White has died, aged 99

Comedic actress Betty White, who capped a career of more than 80 years by becoming America's geriatric sweetheart after Emmy-winning roles on television sitcoms The Golden Girls and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died, less than three weeks shy of her 100th birthday, People magazine reported on Friday, quoting her agent.
#goldengirls #bettywhite

France culls over 600 000 poultry in new bird flu outbreak

France has culled 600 000 to 650 000 chickens, ducks and other poultry over the past month, officials said Friday, in a race to contain a bird flu virus threatening to become the fourth major outbreak in the country since 2015.
#france #poultry #birdflu

Indonesia bans coal exports in January on domestic power worries

Indonesia has banned coal exports in January due to concerns that low supplies at domestic power plants could lead to widespread blackouts, a senior official at the energy ministry said on Saturday.
#indonesia #coal #energy

Sudanese forces kill four, raid media house in Khartoum

CCTV footage of the raid shows security personnel attacking employees. The Dubai-based satellite television station announced that several of its journalists were injured in the attack.
#sudaneseforces #raid #journalists

Elon Musk reveals who bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto might be

Elon Musk seems to agree with many that hyper-secretive cryptocurrency expert Nick Szabo might be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of digital currency bitcoin.
#elonmusk #satoshinakamoto #bitcoin

Americans invested a record R80bn in African tech start-ups in 2021

Africa’s technology startups raised a record $5 billion this year as US investors piled into companies that are helping the continent’s tech-savvy and young population conduct financial transactions.
#america #tech #africantech #techstartup

Over 71 000 die of coronavirus in Russia in November

Russia's state statistics agency Rosstat said on Thursday that more than 71 000 people died of coronavirus in the country in November, setting a new fatality record since the start of the pandemic.
#russia #rosstat #coronavirus

UK records warmest ever New Year's Eve

The UK on Friday experienced its warmest New Year's Eve on record with temperatures hovering around 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit), the Met Office said. The village of Ryehill in Yorkshire in northern England recorded a temperature of 14.9C at 110 on Friday, breaking a previous record of 14.8C set in Wales in 2011, Met Office spokesperson Stephen Dixon said.
#uk #newyeareve #england