Geography of Africa

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) on July 17 performed free eye surgeries for poor communities in Kenya's northern town of Garissa.

Many of the players at Hestia FC weren't allowed to play — or even watch — soccer matches in their home countries.
In Greece, they make up the country's first women's refugee team and hail from 14 countries including Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

German ship "Alan Kurdi" saved more than 40 migrants in the Mediterranean.

They were rescued from a wooden boat with the assistance of the Maltese authorities. The Maltese navy sent a ship to take the people of ''Alan Kurdi'' and transport them to the shore, "the organization said in Twitter, quoted by NOVA TV.

Egypt has asked international police agency Interpol to track down a 3,000-year-old Tutankhamun artifact that was sold in London for $6 million despite fierce opposition from Cairo, government officials said.

Hundreds of migrants were still held on July 4 in a centre days after it was hit by an air strike that killed 44 people, amid outrage over the plight of those still trapped in Libya.

Dozens of African migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia on July 3after setting off by boat for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent said.   

Outrage and calls for an independent probe mounted on July 3 as 44 migrants were killed in an air strike on a detention center in Libya that the U.N. said could constitute a war crime.

A school linked to FETÖ was handed over to the Turkish public education body in Ethiopia on July 3.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has completed massive renovations at a historic mosque in Johannesburg's Soweto township.

Ankara will continue providing a full scholarship for Ethiopian students to enable the next generation of capable leaders, an official said on June 22.