Africa

At least 300 people have died in another landslide in the Rubaya mining area in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where another 200 people died on Tuesday and more than 400 on January 28. 

The detachment took place last Thursday in a mine under the control of the rebel group M23. Most of the dead are artisanal miners, but small traders working in the vicinity of the mine and residents of nearby villages have also died.

Israel's acceptance of Somaliland, in addition to fueling decades of secessionist conflict, incorporates an unstable new piece into the complex geostrategic table of alliances and hostilities in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.

Jon Etxezarreta, one of the 15 firefighters trapped in Guinea-Bissau after the coup d'état, said they are fine and hope to leave the country today after the border openings.

The San Sebastian Fire Department Ekinbide and all the volunteers from the Navarra NGO Ayuda Contenedores are fine, waiting for the borders to open. Some of the group were going home this Saturday and others are going to Sierra Leone. 

The Sahrawi diaspora of the Basque Country has today concentrated in Vitoria-Gasteiz to show its rejection of the autonomy plan of Western Sahara, which has been raised under the sovereignty of Morocco. The Saharans have recalled that the Spanish State is responsible for "abandoning its people" and have demanded that the Spanish Government publicly reject the autonomy plan in order to hold a referendum on independence.

After several years of delay and 20 years of work, the new Egyptian cultural icon has opened today, costing a billion dollars, which has been greatly delayed by overcosts and political problems. It is twice the size of the Louvre Museum in Paris that has been mouth-to-mouth for the last few days, with 500,000 meters  paintings. Among the treasures that can be found is a large collection of Pharaoh Tutankamon.

Esperanza Santos, the emergency coordinator for Médecins sans Frontières, has worked in Sudan and Gaza this summer, denouncing the atrocities being committed in the African country and calling for protection for civilians living in real hell.

The search for missing persons continues, as some 95 migrants were on board two ships that left Tripoli, Libya, early in the morning. Water has begun to enter one of them, causing people to embark on the other. Some 60 have been rescued.

"We are seeing massive budget cuts, particularly from the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, that are having a real impact on the treatment of children with malnutrition," said MSF representative Ahmed Aldikhari in a statement.

"Today, Spain's progress and good economic situation owe a great deal to the contribution of migration that has come to develop a life project," the head of the Spanish Government acknowledged.

50 migrants have been sleeping in the streets of the Amara district of San Sebastián for weeks waiting for a response to their asylum application. Most of them have arrived here from Mali, fleeing the local war and after being expelled by France.