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sudan
south sudan sways in new parliament
vowed under peace deal
south sudan on monday swore in hundreds
of lawmakers to a newly created
national parliament a long overdue
condition of a fragile peace deal
that ended civil war in the young
country in all
588 mps a mix of delegates
from the ruling party and former rebel
factions
who signed the truce took the oath of
office
at a ceremony in juba presided over by
the chief
justice the creation of an inclusive
national assembly was a key condition
of the 2018 ceasefire that paused
five years of bloodshed between
government
and rebel forces kenya
tourists banned from masai mara after
video with
leopard is leaked the naroc county
government has banned visitors from
old te pesi camp from entering the
maasai mara national reserve
the move follows a video that made
rounds on social media of
tourists being too close to a leopard
a male tourist is seen in close
proximity with the wild animal
while the vehicle door is wide open
he plays with the animal as he tries to
take photos of it
with his phone's camera the clients in
the video
as well as the vehicle have also been
suspended from entering
the reserve indefinitely
a statement from the chief park
administrator christine corchall said
this was purely putting the life of the
tourists in
a quagmire as well as your life
as a guide
egypt fruit baskets survive 2
thousand years under the sea wicker
baskets filled with fruit that have
survived
intact for more than two thousand years
have been discovered in the submerged
ruins
of the ancient city of thornis heracleon
off the coast of egypt hundreds of
ceramic
and bronze artifacts are among the other
recent finds at the vast
site near alexandria thomas herrick
cleon
disappeared underwater following a
series of natural disasters it was only
rediscovered two decades ago
since then it has offered up a wealth of
treasures from an opulent
civilization frozen in time including
colossal
statues it's estimated that only three
percent of the site
has been so far explored
africa wide more than 700 saved from
mediterranean
this weekend rescue ships picked up more
than 700 people trying to cross the
mediterranean
in makeshift vessels this weekend mainly
off the coast of libya
and malta a migrant aid group said on
sunday
the latest figures come as united
nations migrations officials repeated
their calls
for a fairer mechanism to share the
responsibility of
caring for them rather than leaving it
to the mediterranean
countries sos mediterranean said that
its vessel the ocean viking had carried
out six
operations in international waters since
saturday in the last intervention it
rescued
106 people off the maltese coast after
being altered by german aid group
alerted by german aid group sea watch
said the messiah-based
organization the youngest survivor
rescued in this operation is just
three months old rwanda
rwanda raises 620 million dollars in
second ever international bond sale
rwanda raised 620 million dollars from
investors on monday as it sold
international bonds for only the second
time
making it the latest of a flurry of
african nations to take advantage
of recent benign conditions in the bond
markets the sale of new 10-year debt
drew
more than 1.6 billion dollars of orders
according to bankers arranging the deal
investors have been drawn to relatively
high yielding emerging market dollar
bonds
in recent weeks amid a plunge in
developed countries
bond yields which has pushed u.s and
european borrowing costs to their lowest
since february monday's rwandan bond
follows a second visit
to the international bond market by
benin last month
and dollar debt sales by cameroon kenya
and senegal in june
south africa south africa's illegal
rhino killings
on the rise after virus curbs have ended
at least 249 rhinos were killed the
first six months of this year in south
africa
partly pushed up by the easing of
lockdown curbs that
increased movement of poachers the
department of forestry fisheries and
environment said this in a statement
south africa is home to nearly 80
percent of the world's rhinos but their
horns
are prized in traditional medicine in
asia and poachers have continued
endlessly to mount an onslaught on the
species
the figure represents 83 more rhino
killings compared with the same period
in 2020
the bulk of the slaughter happened at
the famed kruger national park
where 132 rhinos were killed
the ministry said it was monitoring the
increased pressure
seen on private rhino reserves as they
play a significant role
in their rhino protection the trade is
lucrative
and thousands of rhinos have been
poached in south africa over the past
decade usually sold in powdered form
rhino horn is composed mainly of keratin
the same substance as in
human fingernails east africa rwanda
tanzania signed a pact on ict health and
immigration
tanzania and rwanda monday signed
several bilateral agreements during
president samir sulu hassan's
two-day visit to kigali in a press
briefing after a five-hour long meeting
between president samir
and paul kagame ministers of ict and
communication
from both the countries signed an
agreement
on cooperation in the field of
communication and ict
tanzania's minister of foreign affairs
and east africa operation
and rwanda's minister of foreign affairs
and cooperation also signed a memorandum
of understanding
on immigration education and regulation
of
medical products president kagame said
the agreements will ensure
that president samir's visit leads to
tangible results
and gives renewed momentum to their
bilateral relationship
he added that the agreements are key to
new infrastructure and investment
projects for both of these countries
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