By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Africanews
A Russian drone attack injured five civilians in Kharkiv, including a four-year-old child, and triggered fires across 2,500 square metres. Emergency services intervened while the area remained exposed to further strikes, reports Africanews.
New waves of Russian ballistic missiles have killed one person and injured around 15 others in Kyiv and its region, according to local authorities. The Ukrainian capital remains on near-constant alert, while Volodymyr Zelensky says more than 100 ballistic missiles have been fired at the area in two weeks, Le Monde reports.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Source: Le Monde ·
A drone strike on Tanqong market in the Dumaya neighbourhood of Nyala killed at least 102 civilians and injured 113, according to local officials and human rights organisations. The health minister of the Tasis government, aligned with the Rapid Support Forces, said hospitals were on alert, while witnesses attributed the attack to Sudanese army drones, Radio Tamazuj reports.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Source: Radio Tamazuj ·
Strikes by the Jordanian army in Syria’s Daraa province killed five people, according to Syrian health authorities. Amman says it targeted terrorist groups in retaliation for an attack on a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church, which killed nine people and injured 34, Thechronicle reports.
🇸🇾 Syria · Source: Thechronicle ·
Two workers, a man in his thirties and a teenager, were pulled alive from the rubble of a five-storey building under construction that collapsed in Thiès, Senegal. Rescue workers continued searching for another victim, reports Dakaractu.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Source: Dakaractu ·
Harry Kane and Alexia Putellas win the Ballon d’OrHarry Kane won the men’s Ballon d’Or in London, becoming the first English winner since Michael Owen in 2001, thanks in particular to his 73 goals in 65 matches the previous season. Alexia Putellas claimed the women’s award for the third time after helping FC Barcelona win the Champions League, according to the ceremony report.
Flash flood kills one in South Africa’s OR Tambo DistrictOne person drowned in flash floods caused by a storm in OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Mayor Mesuli Ngqondwana also reported two children injured when a structure collapsed and roads badly damaged, according to SABC News.The week in Africa
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