Opening its regular session for 2020, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations today recommended 66 entities for special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and deferred action on the status of 34 others.The 1…
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US Pulls Ambassador from Zambia
The State Department has withdrawn the U.S. ambassador to Zambia after he strongly criticized the south African country for jailing a gay couple for having sex.A State Department spokesperson said Ambassador Daniel Foote’s job in Zambia is “no longer t…
Read MoreHundreds of Thousands Go Hungry as Food Shortages Grip Drought-Stricken Lesotho
GENEVA – The United Nations is urgently appealing for $34 million to provide life-saving support over the next four months for more than one-quarter of a million people in Lesotho who are suffering from severe food shortages. The mostly rural populati…
Read MoreCameroon Military Seizes, Destroys Illegal Guns in North
GAROUA, CAMEROON – Cameroon’s military has arrested several dozen men and destroyed hundreds of locally made guns and weapons the men allegedly circulated on the central African state’s northern border with Chad and Nigeria.A military compactor crushes…
Read MoreCameroon Lawmakers Divided Over President’s Proposal for Separatist Crisis
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON Cameroon’s Parliament is divided over the so-called special status President Paul Biya ordered for the country’s English-speaking regions as a solution to the crisis that has killed more than 3,000 people. Some lawmakers who convene…
Read MoreCameroon Lawmakers Divided Over President’s Proposal for Separatist Crisis
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON Cameroon’s Parliament is divided over the so-called special status President Paul Biya ordered for the country’s English-speaking regions as a solution to the crisis that has killed more than 3,000 people. Some lawmakers who convene…
Read MoreAlgeria’s Electoral Commission Proclaims Former PM Tebboune Winner of Presidential Election
CAIRO – Large crowds of protesters turned out in the capital, Algiers, on Friday despite word from the country’s electoral commission that former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune won a resounding victory in the presidential election.Commission head …
Read MoreReport: Tanzania Is Pressing Burundi Refugees to Leave
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Human Rights Watch says tens of thousands of Burundian refugees face mounting pressure to involuntarily leave Tanzania amid efforts by authorities there to reduce the number of Burundians in the country.The rights group in a statement…
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