US prosecutors have accused a man of concealing his role in the Rwandan genocide to move to the United States and attempt to become a citizen, they said Thursday.Faustin Nsabumukunzi, 65, allegedly had a leadership role whereby he oversaw killings of Tutsi civilians in the 1994 genocide in which the United Nations said some 800,000 …
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The world’s only research centre on mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease common among farmers, has been destroyed in Sudan’s two-year war, its director and another expert say.Mycetoma is caused by bacteria or fungus and usually enters the body through cuts. It is a progressively destructive infectious disease of the body tissue, affecting skin, muscle and …
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Tens of thousands of mourners flocked Thursday to catch a last glimpse of Pope Francis’s body on the second day of public tributes as Italian authorities stepped up security arrangements ahead of his funeral.Some 90,000 people had filed past the late Catholic leader’s red-lined wooden coffin in the first day and a half that it …
President Cyril Ramaphosa praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his first visit to South Africa on Thursday for agreeing to an unconditional ceasefire in the war with Russia so that peace talks could begin.Ramaphosa threw South Africa’s weight behind the push for an end to the more than three-year war, holding talks with Zelensky hours …
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A call by Ivory Coast’s main opposition party for protests outside courts on Thursday over the barring of its candidate from this year’s presidential election drew only a few hundred supporters, an AFP journalist saw.The government warned it would not permit any unrest and police blocked off access to the courts in Abidjan, the economic …
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Tanzania’s main opposition party said 13 officials had been arrested on their way to a rally to support their leader Tundu Lissu on Thursday as he faced a charge of treason in court. Lissu, who faces a potential death sentence if convicted, refused to take part in the hearing because he could only appear by video …
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government and the M23 group on Wednesday issued a landmark joint statement saying they had agreed to halt fighting in the east of the country while they work towards a permanent truce.The surprise announcement follows talks mediated by Qatar. The two sides said they had “agreed to work towards the …
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Bodies were discovered near a Malian military camp days after the army and Russian mercenaries arrested dozens of civilians, witnesses told AFP Wednesday.Mali, ruled by a junta following coups in 2020 and 2021, has been grappling with widespread insecurity for more than a decade, largely fuelled by Islamist fighters linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic …
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Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Lissu was set to appear in court on Thursday to face a charge of treason, which carries a potential death penalty, weeks after his party was disqualified from upcoming elections.Authorities in the east African nation have increasingly cracked down on the opposition Chadema party ahead of the presidential and parliamentary polls …
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President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday ordered the closure of a US agency that invested billions in African and other developing countries’ infrastructure in return for good governance, effectively ceding ground to China.The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will immediately exit projects around the world, from building roads to modernizing electricity grids, likely leaving the works …
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