A US jury on Tuesday convicted a Gambian man for torturing opponents of the African country’s former president by burning and beating them, including with molten plastic.Michael Sang Correa, 46, served in an armed unit known as the “Junglers,” which answered to The Gambia’s then-president, Yahya Jammeh. A trial in Denver, Colorado, found that Correa and …
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Britain and European Union countries led international calls Tuesday for “an immediate and permanent ceasefire” to end the devastating war in Sudan, as nations pledged more than 800 million euros in fresh humanitarian aid.The international community also “stressed the necessity of preventing any partition of Sudan,” a statement at the end of a London conference …
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Tanzania’s main opposition party on Tuesday declared its disqualification from upcoming national polls was unconstitutional, only a week after its leader was detained and charged with treason.The east African nation’s authorities have increasingly cracked down on its opposition, with the Chadema party accusing President Samia Suluhu Hassan of returning to the repressive tactics of her …
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Nadjala Mourraou held her haggard two-year-old son in her henna-tattooed hands for the medics to examine. Then came the painful diagnosis: little Ahma, like many of his fellow Sudanese refugees, was severely malnourished.The pair were towards the front of a long line snaking out of the doctors’ tent at an already overcrowded refugee camp in …
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Somalia on Tuesday launched voter registration in the capital Mogadishu for the first time in over 50 years, a step towards universal suffrage ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 2026 in the volatile nation.The east African country is struggling to emerge from decades of conflict and chaos, battling a bloody Islamist insurgency and frequent natural …
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Amna Hussein didn’t stop when the bullet hit her hand. She kept on running as paramilitaries attacked Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s western Darfur region in the dead of night.”They entered Zamzam and started shooting at us,” she told AFP in the small town of Tawila, 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of the huge famine-stricken camp, …
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Behind a dimly lit bar in Malawi’s capital, Ben Manda rubbed his tired eyes and poured a customer a drink. He had been working for 36 hours straight, packing in back-to-back shifts to feed his family of four.”I haven’t been home in three days,” said the 32-year-old barman in a run-down club in Mtandire, one of Lilongwe’s …
As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, Musa Adamu Ibrahim, a nurse, is sitting at home, unemployed.In Nigeria — home to 30 percent of the world’s annual 600,000 malaria deaths — clinics that once served 300 people a day in the conflict-hit Borno …
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Junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema celebrated a huge victory in Gabon’s presidential election Sunday after provisional results gave him 90.35 percent of the vote.Oligui, who ended more than five decades of corruption-plagued rule by the Bongo family in August 2023, assuming the role of transitional president, had promised to return the country to democratic rule.”God …
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Gabon’s General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has attempted rap music and even breakdance moves in a bid to break from his profile as the military strongman who seized power.Oligui, 50, swapped his uniform for a business suit to get among crowds during the campaign for Saturday’s election and took questions from journalists. All this was designed …
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