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UN says ethnic cleansing is taking place in South Sudan

Women stand outside a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) site in Yei, in southern South Sudan which is now a center of the country’s renewed...

Ethiopians and Somalis lead in migrants making deadly sea crossing to Yemen

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is warning against risky migration from the Horn of Africa region to Yemen. According to the...

Rwanda investigates French officials over 1994 genocide

Officials in Rwanda have launched a probe into the involvement of some 20 French officials in the 1994 genocide in the country. There has been...

Ugandan monarch charged with murder

King Charles Wesley Mumbere. Photo Credit: BBC     The chief of the Rwenzururu kingdom in western Uganda, Charles Wesley Mumbere has been officially charged with murder...

Four Sudanese print media raided, TV channel shutdown

Four independent newspaper publications have been confiscated by Sudanese security services and a private television channel ordered to close down after coverage of opposition...

Uganda orders closure of schools backed by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg

Ugandan authorities have ordered the closure of a chain of “for-profit international schools” backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg over...

Somalia’s presidential elections postponed again

Somalia’s presidential elections scheduled for November 30 have been postponed for a third time to a later unspecified date. The chairman of the country’s electoral...

EU to keep patrolling for Somali pirates until end of 2018

The European Union's naval mission will keep patrolling for pirates off the coast of Somalia for another two years, to guard against any resurgence...

Gunmen kidnap three UNHCR workers in Sudan’s Darfur

Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped three workers from the United Nation's refugee agency in Sudan's restive Darfur region, a local official told Reuters on Monday. The...

Thirsty Somalis trek 60 km for water as drought and conflict bite

A second poor rainy season in Somalia has pushed livestock herders in the drought-hit Puntland region to trek an average of 60 km (40...

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Nigerian High Commission apartments in Ghana demolished

Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers. The apartments have been constructed to...

Covid-19: Ghana records significant recovery numbers

Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered. The significant number of recoveries means the country now...

DR Congo: President’s ex-chief of staff jailed 20 years for corruption

The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million. Moyo is accused of illegally...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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