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In mid-February, social media in the landlocked arid nation were suddenly overrun with disinformation, from jihadist assaults and a supposed coup to a bogus bombardment.

"Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has appointed Getachew Reda as president of the Tigray region's interim administration," Abiy's office said in a statement posted on Twitter.

Now unemployed and struggling to feed his family of three, he joined hundreds of pro-opposition demonstrators on Monday in the capital Nairobi to protest the high cost of living in Kenya.

A woman dressed in black, her face replaced by a leopard's head, sits flanked by three prowling wild cats.

"A hundred trucks filled with food and basic necessities were able to reach Djibo yesterday under military escort," the source said.

Hundreds of people took to the streets in the capital Nairobi and other parts of Kenya in response to opposition leader Raila Odinga's call for a day of action over the country's severe cost of living crisis.

Stationed near the frontline hotspot of Bakhmut, six men operate an old Soviet anti-aircraft gun that they say belongs in a museum, not on the battlefield.

The move will strengthen the November 2022 peace deal between the TPLF and the federal government, it said.

He did not give a detailed figure for those jailed, saying only that "more than 400 were sentenced" to life, while 24 other defendants were acquitted.

Dubois and US aid worker Jeffery Woodke, 61, had arrived in the capital of Niger, Niamey, a day earlier after being freed.

Overconsumption and pollution of the planet's limited supplies of freshwater lie at the core of a three-day UN Water Conference opening in New York on Wednesday.

The summit was seen as a coup for internationally isolated Putin just days after the International Criminal Court announced it had issued an arrest warrant against the Russian leader for the "unlawful deportation" of Ukrainian children.

Here are some key takeaways from the UN Water forum, which published its report as the first major conference on the issue in nearly a half-century is set to get underway Wednesday in New York.

He and a US aid worker -- 61-year-old Jeffery Woodke, who was seized in southwest Niger in October 2016 -- arrived in the Niger capital, Niamey, on Monday after being freed.

Protesters had joined demonstrations in Nairobi and other parts of Kenya on Monday in response to a call by veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga for a day of action against the government of President William Ruto.

Under the proposed law, anyone in the conservative East African nation who engages in same-sex activity or who identifies publicly as LGBTQ could face up to 10 years in prison.

Washington on Monday accused all parties to the conflict of committing war crimes.

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that nearly 100,000 people in the fragile country were facing catastrophic levels of hunger due to the worst drought to hit the region in four decades.

The country was already battling its deadliest cholera outbreak on record when the storm landed last week, causing mudslides and flooding, killing 476 and displacing nearly half a million.

Blinken, who had sounded upbeat in Ethiopia about the prospects for peace after a breakthrough November 2 accord, made a forceful call for accountability on his return to Washington.

In an increasingly tense political climate, the opposition has repeatedly alleged that Sall intends to override the constitution to do so.

On Monday, Putin and Xi held four and a half hours of talks, calling each other "dear friend."

In one part of Nairobi's biggest slum Kibera, demonstrators set tyres alight, while several youths were arrested at one of the venues for the demonstrations in the capital, AFP journalists saw.

Authorities said there would be a heavy police presence to deal with any possible violence, after the third largest party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) urged South Africans to take to the streets and bring the country to a halt.

The number of children in dire need of aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is twice as many as in 2020, the children's agency UNICEF said.

Freddy hit the southern African country earlier this week, triggering flooding and mudslides that swept away homes, roads and bridges.

Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Goncharenko confirmed that two people had been killed by cluster bombs.

Governors are powerful positions in Nigeria, with some controlling state budgets larger than those of several African nations.

The agreement between Britain and Rwanda "will lead the way in finding a solution which is both humanitarian and compassionate and also fair and balanced", she added.