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Three Uganda lawmakers charged with corruption, court papers show

13 Jun 2024

KAMPALA (Reuters) – Three Ugandan ruling party legislators have been charged with corruption for trying to influence a rights body to inflate its budget, according to a charge-sheet seen by Reuters. Graft is rampant in the east African country but prosecution of top officials, especially those allied to the country’s long-ruling President Yoweri Museveni and …

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Rwanda accuses U.N. refugee agency of lying in British asylum policy case

13 Jun 2024

KIGALI (Reuters) -Rwanda said the United Nations refugee agency had lied when it told a British court this week that asylum seekers sent to the East African country could be moved on again to states where they risked torture or death. Lawyers representing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Monday that …

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Rwanda appoints new finance, foreign ministers

13 Jun 2024

NAIROBI (Reuters) -Rwanda has named statistics official Yusuf Murangwa as its new finance minister, Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente said, while the foreign minister will be Olivier Nduhungirehe, its ambassador to the Netherlands. The appointments were unveiled in a statement on Wednesday, along with those of ministers holding the portfolios of public service and labour, gender …

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UN Security Council to vote on demand for halt to siege of Sudanese city

13 Jun 2024

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Thursday on a British-drafted resolution that demands a halt to the siege of al-Fashir in Sudan’s North Dafur region by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), diplomats said on Wednesday. The draft text, seen by Reuters, also calls for an immediate halt …

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Africa’s Great Green Wall to miss 2030 goal says UN desertification president

13 Jun 2024

By Simon Jessop and Alessandra Prentice LONDON/DAKAR (Reuters) – Africa’s Great Green Wall, which is meant to restore degraded landscapes and boost economies across the continent, is low on cash and unlikely to meet a 2030 completion goal, the president of the most recent UN summit on desertification told Reuters. Launched in 2007, the project …

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South Africa’s IFP says it will join ANC and DA in unity government

12 Jun 2024

By Bhargav Acharya and Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s Inkatha Freedom Party will join a unity government with the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance, it said on Wednesday, as parties race for a deal before the newly elected parliament sits on Friday. The ANC, which lost its majority in May’s election for …

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Interior ministers of Libya and Tunisia agree reopening of major border crossing

12 Jun 2024

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Interior ministers from Libya and Tunisia said on Wednesday they had agreed to partially reopen the border crossing at Ras Jdir on Thursday morning, and to fully reopen it on June 20 after more than three months of closure. Libyan interior minister in Government of National Unity (GNU) in Tripoli, Emad Trabulsi, …

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Migrants dying in unprecedented numbers on Canary Islands route, NGO says

12 Jun 2024

(Refiles with new media identifier, no change to content of story) By Borja Suarez ARGUINEGUIN, Spain (Reuters) -An unprecedented nearly 5,000 migrants have died at sea in the first five months of 2024 trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands, according to a report released by migration rights group Walking Borders on Wednesday. Between Jan. …

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Nigeria switches national anthem in what sceptics label a distraction

12 Jun 2024

By Ope Adetayo ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday signed a bill switching back to a national anthem composed by a British expatriate and adopted at independence, a move some dismissed as a cynical distraction from an escalating economic crisis. “We Hail Thee” will now be used instead of “Arise O’ Compatriots”. …

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