Following the announcement that the World Food Programme has had to stop food distribution in South Sudan, there are now reports that three people in Warrap state have died of starvation.Jane Backhurst, senior adviser at Christian Aid, said: “Christian…
(Kampala) – President Yoweri Museveni should accelerate steps toward fulfilling his commitments to end abuses by security forces and restrictions on civil society and journalists in Uganda, Human Rights Watch said following its meeting with him on June…
ABUJA— The death toll in Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has doubled over the past year.Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) revealed that 158 people have died since the beginning of the year.Statistics are for January to June, when 797 cases hav…
Amnesty International welcomes the Special Rapporteur’s update on the human rights situation in Burundi.Burundi continues to face serious human rights challenges despite promises by Burundian authorities to improve the human rights situation since Pres…
DAKAR— At least 14 migrants died when a boat caught fire in south Senegal, a local mayor and a health official said.“We have been able to recover 14 bodies,” David Diatta, the mayor of the coastal town of Kafountine in Casamance, said after the fire on…
ACCRA— Ghana police fired tear gas and arrested more than two dozen protesters in the capital Accra after a demonstration over soaring living costs turned violent.The West African nation, reeling from a pandemic-spurred economic slump and hammered by t…
LISBON— President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of Portugal has announced his Government’s intention to reposition Kenya as the anchor for his country’s growing investments on the African continent.In a media address after a bilateral meeting with a Kenyan d…
BERLIN— Priceless artefacts removed and looted from African nations during Germany’s colonial period will be permanently returned, officials said.The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which manages the German capital’s many museums, s…
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