A Moroccan appeals court more than tripled to three years prison sentences against 18 African migrants over the deadly storming of a Spanish enclave in June, a lawyer said. The migrants had been arrested after some 2,000 people, mostly from Sudan, tried to breach the frontier with the enclave of Melilla on June 24 in…
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Museveni issues apology to Kenya for son’s controversial tweets
By Jerry Omondi Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday issued an apology to Kenya, following a series of controversial tweets from his son and army general, Muhoozi Kainerugaba’s, which drew a lot of attention. Gen Muhoozi made a series of bizarre social media posts between Monday and Tuesday in relation to a military operation in…
1 million people displaced in northern Mozambique
By Jerry Omondi Nearly one million people have been forced to flee their homes in conflict-hit northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province since extreme violence erupted there five years ago, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. UNHCR said its latest figures showed 946,508 people were displaced by the first half of this year, pointing…
Félicien Kabuga, Top Rwanda genocide suspect and financier goes on trial
By Halligan Agade A senior UN official welcomed the start of the trial against Rwanda Genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga for crimes committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Kabuga had a “substantial” role in the genocide, prosecutors said on Thursday at the opening of his trial in The Hague. Kabuga accused of encouraging and bankrolling the…
Election campaign kicks off in Nigeria
By Lauriane Noëlle Vofo Kana Updated at 0613 EAT on 0612 EAT The campaign for presidential and National Assembly seats officially kicked off Wednesday, Sept 28, in Nigeria. In accordance with Section 94(1) of the Electoral Act 2022, campaign in public by all political parties “commences 150 days before polling day [Editor’s note: Sept.28] and…
Former CAR top rebel leader pleads not guilty as trial starts at ICC
By Jerry Omondi Mahamat Said Abdel Kani pleaded not guilty to all charges on Monday at the International Criminal Court (ICC) as his long-awaited trial started at The Hague. The former top-ranking rebel commander is accused of carrying out or ordering crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2013….
Drought is killing Kenya’s endangered wildlife
Kenya’s worst drought in four decades has killed almost 2 percent of the world’s rarest zebra in three months, and 25 times more elephants than normal over the same period, Reuters reported. “It’s a serious threat to us,” said Andrew Letura, a monitoring officer at Grevy’s Zebra Trust (GZT). Letura said drought has killed about 40…
27 al-Shabab militants killed in Somali airstrike
The U.S. military said Wednesday that it had killed 27 fighters from the al-Shabab militant group in an air strike in Somalia’s central Hiran region, where the army and allied forces have launched an offensive against the insurgents in the last month. In Hiran region, residents say al Shabaab’s torching of houses, destruction of wells…
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