#54DegreesAcrossAfrica: Wildfire on Mount Kilimanjaro and all the news updates from East Africa you might have missed

Kenya #schoolsreopening Day 1 well organised School.Consulted a team Professional Doctors/Public Health /Infection Control Specialists for 3 https://t.co/wbbGt8MUkx place for another 1 year.Proud to be associated.@andrewsuleh @Nyamwanda
@WHOKenya@StateHouseKenya @AJEnglish pic.twitter.com/TMDZEWnIvS

— Mozdic Jamal MD MHS (@mozdic65) October 12, 2020

On a lighter note, as we celebrate teachers on the 1st day of university reopening, teachers minus students reminiscing the good old days????. #Teachers #TeachersDay #TeachersDay2020 #WorldTeachersDay #WorldTeachersDay2020 #KeepSmiling #lol #schoolsreopening pic.twitter.com/QhPVSBLjHe

— Bamba Tv Kenya (@BambaTVKenya) October 5, 2020

#Mundo | Desde el servicio de parques nacionales de Tanzania declararon que se están realizando esfuerzos para contenerlo. https://t.co/pKRJpDLmxO

— TN8 Nicaragua (@canaltn8) October 12, 2020

Christians in #Ethiopia are being killed, you all talk about it don’t let the world be silent about this!!??❤️ #prayforEthiopia #Ethiopia

— Nina (@fcbxnina) October 12, 2020

WARNING GRAPHIC:

Another 12 Amhara are slaughtered in #Metekel today. #AmharaGenocide continues in hellhole Ethiopia. #AmharaMassacre pic.twitter.com/HvjuB7b9Wa

— ? (@AmaraFirst) October 12, 2020

#Ethiopia News: Small Protest Met with Deadly Force in Roobee, Bale Zone, #Oromia Regional State

A small protest led to the death of Awal Abdurro, the injury of another protester and the arrest of a dozen.https://t.co/H0B21nxZMu

— Addis Standard (@addisstandard) October 12, 2020

It is such heartbreaking. These women are begging their God to stop the locust swarm in #Ethiopia. These women most probably have suffered nature caused, politically mismanaged disasters couple of times in their past. pic.twitter.com/B3runvkrsP

— ???????? ?. | በፍቃዱ ዘ. (@befeqe) October 12, 2020

Ethiopia, already struggling to suppress a desert-locust infestation that’s the worst in decades, will escalate efforts to control the insects as it receives two new swarms a day. https://t.co/L3VvEmWzuW

— Business Report (@busrep) October 12, 2020

Ethiopia’s Agriculture Minister, @ObaOumer, has said more spray planes will be deployed to fight huge locust swarms. This is after two spraying planes crashed early October slowing down the effort to stop the swarms. The minister said the swarms had spread to four regions. pic.twitter.com/Zy2qsr0sQp

— Addis Zeybe – አዲስ ዘይቤ (@AddisZeybe) October 12, 2020

We are reinvigorating the Anti-COVID19 enforcement measures and would like to remind all motorists that the timing of the curfew is 9:00PM. All boda boda riders are also reminded to observe the 6pm timing. Those caught outside these timings may suffer consequences this evening.

— Uganda Police Force (@PoliceUg) October 12, 2020

As the world marked International #DayOfTheGirl Child, First Lady Jeannette Kagame launched a campaign aimed at ending child sexual abuse.

“We cannot celebrate this day and pretend as if we are not aware of the existing challenge of child sexual abuse”https://t.co/JsdtqKe3ZG

— The New Times (Rwanda) (@NewTimesRwanda) October 12, 2020