Alessandra Prentice

Correspondent at Reuters

@Reuters correspondent West & Central Africa, ex-Ukraine and Russia. RT's ≠ endorsements, any inadvertent opinions all my own. Email: [email protected]

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Congolese civilians fear violence and rape if they return home

2 months ago | msn.com | Alessandra Prentice

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Congolese civilians fear violence and rape if they return home

2 months ago | independent.ie | Alessandra Prentice

Congolese civilians fear violence and rape if they return homeFrancine Nsegiyumva cooks for children near the room where they are taking refuge, following the intensification of fighting between M23 rebels and the Armed Forces of the DR Congo in Goma, eastern DR Congo.
What is happening in east Congo? And who are the M23 rebels?

2 months ago | independent.co.uk | Alessandra Prentice

A long-running conflict has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crisesCongo has severed diplomatic ties with Rwanda as fighting between Rwanda-backed rebels, the M23 group, and Government forces rage around the key eastern city of Goma,In recent weeks, the rebel group has made significant territorial gains along the border with Rwanda, encircling Goma, the provincial capital of around two million people and a regional hub for security and humanitarian efforts.
Burkina Faso junta fires Prime Minister, dissolves government

Dec 6, 2024 | sightmagazine.com.au | Alessandra Prentice |David Adams

ReutersBurkina Faso’s ruling junta has dismissed interim Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the government, a decree issued by the office of military leader Ibrahim Traore said on Friday. Burkina Faso’s junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore attends the first ordinary summit of heads of state and governments of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in Niamey, Niger, on 6th July, 2024. PICTURE: Reuters/ Mahamadou Hamidou/File photo.
About 50 feared dead in Guinea stadium stampede, local official says

Dec 1, 2024 | dispatchlive.co.za | Bate Felix |Alessandra Prentice |Hereward Holland

Clashes at a politically charged football tournament in N'Zérékoré in Guinea. About 50 people are feared to have been killed after clashes between fans and a stampede ensued on Sunday during a soccer match in the town of N'Zérékoré, southeast Guinea, a local official told Reuters. Videos and pictures shared online showed victims lined up on the ground. In one video, over a dozen inert bodies could be counted and several of them were children. Reuters has not authenticated the videos.
About 50 feared dead in Guinea stadium stampede, local official says

Dec 1, 2024 | timeslive.co.za | Bate Felix |Alessandra Prentice |Hereward Holland

02 December 2024 - 11:28 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Clashes at a politically charged football tournament in N'Zérékoré in Guinea. About 50 people are feared to have been killed after clashes between fans and a stampede ensued on Sunday during a soccer match in the town of N'Zérékoré, southeast Guinea, a local official told Reuters. Videos and pictures shared online showed victims lined up on the ground.
SA welcomes $300bn commitment for climate finance

Nov 25, 2024 | bizcommunity.com | Mahamat Ramadane |Alessandra Prentice |Valerie Volcovici |Nailia Bagirova

Advertise your job vacancies2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Government has welcomed the new finance deal of $300bn per year by 2035 - which was committed by high-income economies, to finance climate action for developing economies. Image source: Tanarat Kongchuenjit – 123RF.comThe deal was clinched at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29), which concluded in the early hours of Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Spring snow in South Africa: A wake-up call for climate readiness

Nov 20, 2024 | bizcommunity.com | Karen King |Yolandi Meyer |Alessandra Prentice |Mahamat Ramadane

Advertise your job vacancies2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Although September’s snowfall, which stranded motorists on the N3 and resulted in two deaths, was outside normal weather patterns, snow in spring and summer in South Africa is not entirely unheard of. Records from Snow Report Southern Africa show that snow has fallen in September, October and November, especially in the Eastern and Western Cape and in KwaZulu-Natal since 1953, and fairly regularly between 2010 and 2018.
Spring snow in South Africa: A wake-up call for climate readiness

Nov 20, 2024 | bizcom.to | Karen King |Yolandi Meyer |Alessandra Prentice |Mahamat Ramadane

Advertise your job vacancies2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Although September’s snowfall, which stranded motorists on the N3 and resulted in two deaths, was outside normal weather patterns, snow in spring and summer in South Africa is not entirely unheard of. Records from Snow Report Southern Africa show that snow has fallen in September, October and November, especially in the Eastern and Western Cape and in KwaZulu-Natal since 1953, and fairly regularly between 2010 and 2018.
Africa grapples with forecasting challenge as weather disasters loom

Nov 15, 2024 | bizcom.to | Mahamat Ramadane |Alessandra Prentice |Matthew Hirsch |Tim Cocks

Advertise your job vacancies2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more The deputy director of Chad's National Meteorological Agency waggled his finger up and down to demonstrate how a motionless humidity gauge at the agency's headquarters should have been working. Homes are submerged in water after a massive flood in N'djamena, Chad, 14 October 2022.