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Death toll in Freetown fuel tanker explosion rises to 131

Dozens of wounded people still being treated at hospitals, with 19 still in a critical condition, authorities say.

Health workers carry a coffin during the burial of 75 of the victims in Freetown on November 8, 2021, two days after a massive fireball sparked by a fuel tanker explosion killed more than 130 people in Sierra Leone's capital [Saidu Bah/ AFP]

‘National tragedy’: Sierra Leone mourns victims of tanker blast

Sierra Leone declares three days of mourning as the death toll from a fuel tanker explosion rises to 101.

'We need assistance', Hassan Kanu, 52, a local community worker, said after he witnessed the devastating blast [Sally Hayden/Al Jazeera]

Thousands of refugees and migrants plead for Libya evacuation

Appeals at Tripoli sit-in come as more than 5,000 people rounded up this month and put in indefinite detention.

Asylum seekers' renewed appeals for assistance and evacuation came as a result of the latest crackdown on them in Tripoli [File: Ayman al-Sahili/Reuters]

Infamous human smuggler sentenced to 18 years in Ethiopian prison

Eritrean Tewelde Goitom, known as Welid, was in late April found guilty of five charges of trafficking individuals.

Migrants wearing lifejackets are seen during a rescue operation by the MSF-SOS Mediterranee-run Ocean Viking rescue ship, off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea

‘No other home’: Refugees in Kenya camps devastated over closure

Kenya has given ultimatum to UN refugee agency to present plan over closure of two camps housing over 400,000 people.

Dadaab refugee camp kenya girls

Bobi Wine, the pop star seeking to unseat Uganda’s longtime ruler

Pop star-turned-politician poses the strongest challenge to longtime President Yoweri Museveni’s bid to win sixth term

Bobi Wine attends the First Annual 'Time 100 Next' gala in New York City, US, November 14, 2019 [File: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]

Concern grows for safety of Eritrean refugees as Tigray war rages

Eritrean refugees face threats of violence, harassment and food shortages amid conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

Eritrean refugee woman in the Mai-Aini refugee camp near the Eritrean border in Tigray [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters]

Children, women casualties of Uganda’s coronavirus transport ban

Movement restriction imposed to curb COVID-19 spread but critics say it left no realistic provision for emergency care.

Jeanette Aromorach holds a picture of her son, 12-year-old Stewart Rubamga-Kwo, who died on March 31, unable to reach hospital because of Uganda''s transport ban. [Sally Hayden/Al Jazeera]

‘It’s necessary. People are dying in the Mediterranean’

Rescue workers on board the Alan Kurdi launch Mediterranean Christmas Day operation off Libyan coast.

Alan Kurdi rescue ship

Vulnerable child and women refugees refused evacuation from Libya

Asylum seekers protest as UNHCR turns down evacuation requests, citing third countries’ refusal to take in refugees.

Libya protest GDF