By ronal sserwadda More than 220 civilians, including at least 56 children, were massacred by Burkina Faso’s military in a single day this year, Human Rights Watch says. In the attacks on 25 February, the army killed 179 people in Soro village and 44 others in the nearby Nondin village, an HRW investigation found….
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Trump’s immunity in election interference case, US Supreme Court to decide.
A historic case, one that could affect both Donald Trump’s legal and political fates and define the scope of presidential power, lands before the nine justices of the US Supreme Court on Thursday. Lawyers for Mr Trump and Special Counsel Jack Smith will square off in a hearing on whether former presidents have immunity from…
Nairobi experiences extensive damage due to flooding.
Flooding in Nairobi has reached extreme levels, causin g roads to become rivers, according to a top official. Heavy rain has pounded Kenya in recent days, causing widespread devastation. The UN says that at least 32 people have lost their lives and more than 40,000 have been forced from their homes because of the rain…
Sudan had the highest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, according to a UN report.
By ronald sserwadda Sudan had the highest number of people facing extreme food shortages globally in 2023 due to conflict and displacement, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Last year Sudan was responsible for two-thirds of an additional 13.5 million people who urgently needed help due to the war between rival…
Kenya investigates crash that killed military chief, Francis Ogolla
Kenya’s government has sent a team to investigate the helicopter crash that killed military chief Gen Francis Ogolla and nine others. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash. Gen Ogolla was among 12 occupants of the military aircraft that went down on Thursday afternoon shortly after take off in the north-west of the…
Gen Francis Ogolla: Kenya helicopter crash kills country’s military chief.
Kenya’s military chief, Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla, has died after a military helicopter crashed in the west of the country, the president said. Gen Ogolla – Kenya’s highest ranking military officer – was in the helicopter alongside 11 other military personnel. Only two people survived. In a news conference, President William Ruto said it was…
Tens of millions facing hunger and water shortages as extreme drought sweep southern Africa.
An estimated 20 million people in southern Africa are facing what the United Nations calls”acute hunger” as one of the worst droughts in more than four decades shrivels crops, decimates livestock and, after years of rising food prices brought on by pandemic and war, spikes the price of corn, the region’s staple crop. Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe have all declared…
Kenyan health workers are on strike and what can be done about it.
Most of the beds at the labour ward of Kihara Level 4 Hospital on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, are empty. Only three are occupied out of more than a dozen. A nurse says the hospital is not taking in women who need a Caesarean as there is no doctor to perform the…
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