Uganda’s main opposition leader, Bobi Wine, said on Friday the army had raided his party’s headquarters, hours after the head of the army claimed to have abducted Wine’s bodyguard and was torturing him “in his basement”.There has been a mounting crackdown on the opposition ahead of the general election in January and the moves come …
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Tunisian environmentalist Semia Labidi Gharbi, awarded a global prize for her role exposing a major waste scandal, has a message for wealthy nations: developing countries are “no dumping ground”.Gharbi was among the first to speak out when Italy shipped more than 280 containers of waste to the North African country in 2020.The cargo was initially …
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In war-ravaged Khartoum donkey carts clatter over worn asphalt, the smell of tomatoes wafts from newly reopened stalls and pedestrians dodge burnt-out cars left by two years of war.Life is slowly, cautiously returning to the Sudanese capital, weeks after the army recaptured the city from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who had held it …
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Malian political parties, fearing their dissolution by the ruling junta, are raising their voices despite a crackdown on dissent and a shrinking civic space.The military announced on Wednesday the repeal of a charter which sets out the creation and function of political parties, in what legal experts said could be another move towards scrapping them …
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Hundreds of Tunisians took to the streets of the capital Thursday to mark Labour Day, to protest against President Kais Saied and to demand the release of jailed political figures.The rally, attended by members of different political factions, was called by Tunisia’s powerful UGTT trade union confederation and relatives of detained opposition figures.”We’re not happy …
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Kenyan police said the murder of a politician in the capital Nairobi appears to have been premeditated and targeted, with the president promising on Thursday that those responsible would be caught.Charles Ong’ondo Were, an MP for the Kasipul area in the country’s west, was shot when his car stopped at a red light on a …
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Street names in Ivory Coast’s economic capital have taken on a decidedly more local flavour over the past few weeks, as African names have replaced French ones in France’s former colony.The road linking the airport to Abidjan’s city centre, for example, is no longer named after former French president Valerie Giscard d’Estaing, but for the …
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Several thousand people rallied in support of Burkina Faso’s junta Wednesday, days after the military rulers said they had uncovered a “plot” to overthrow the government.Demonstrators carried giant posters of junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore and Burkinabe and Russian flags in one of the biggest rallies since Traore seized power in a coup in September …
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Wednesday a judicial inquiry into claims of deliberate delays in prosecuting apartheid-era crimes three decades after the end of white-minority rule.The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) created in 1996 exposed crimes, including murder and torture, carried out during apartheid but few of these cases have progressed to trial.”Allegations of …
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Africans in search of a better future became the latest casualties of Yemen’s decade-long conflict after a deadly strike blamed on the United States hit a migrant detention centre, killing dozens of people.The pre-dawn attack on Monday killed more than 60 people in their sleep, the country’s Huthi rebels said, attributing the raid to the …
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