French rapper Maître Gims has announced the cancellation of an upcoming concert in Djerba, Tunisia, to protest against the treatment of black African migrants stranded near the border areas with Algeria and Libya. “Children, women, men, expelled from Tunisia to Libya, live in inhuman conditions,” the rapper wrote on his Instagram account on Sunday. “I […]
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Harare — Eight police officers from the Presidential Protection Services who were caught on camera assaulting drivers on the N1 in Gauteng have been released on bail, IOL reports. When deciding whether to grant the eight’s request for bail, Magistrate Hleziphi Mkhasibe noted that the State had not been able to establish who of the […]
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Nigeria: A Plea to Resident Doctors
The strike is bringing untold hardship to many Nigerians Sporadic calls for strikes by diverse labour unions have become quite worrisome. While the living conditions have become desperate for most Nigerians, it is also true that President Bola Tinubu is yet to form a proper government since he has only sent a partial list of […]
THE Bayelsa State Police Command said it has successfully reunited two children who were victims of human trafficking with their parents. Spokesman of the command, SP Asinim Butswat, in a statement on Sunday in Yenagoa, said the children who are between the ages of 5 and 12, were stolen by a suspected child trafficker from […]
Addis Abeba — Local residents of East Meskan Woreda, in Gurage Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and people’s (SNNP) regional state, are calling for a government intervention and protection after seven people were killed in latest armed attack on Saturday 29 July; several more were also injured in the attack. According to three local […]
Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been mired in a flurry of legal woes, which he says are a bid to keep him out of politics. Top Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was arrested on Friday following a scuffle with security forces stationed outside his residence. The firebrand politician said in a post on social […]
International rights activist, Alhaji Musa Saidu has condemned the coup in Niger Republic , saying there is no alternative to democratic government which guarantees the rights and freedom of the people. Saidu who is President International Human rights Commission , ecology and marine, Africa also called on Africa leaders and President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria […]
Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko was arrested late Friday for allegedly stealing a gendarme’s phone and posting a “subversive” message. The politician, who leads the PASTEF party and whose arrest last month sparked violent clashes between supporters and police, has faced a number of legal problems, which he says are aimed at keeping him out […]
Nairobi — The Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition is on Friday scheduled to hold an interdenominational service in honor of the victims who lost their lives during the opposition protest demanding the government to address the high cost of living. National Assembly Minority Leader, Opiyo Wandayi, noted that the leaders of the coalition will […]
THE University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) in collaboration with Norway’s Centre for Medical Ethics is undertaking a capacity building training of ethicists and healthcare professionals aimed at addressing ethical dilemmas in clinical practices. Through the Enhancing Ethics and Integrity in Medical Research and Clinical Practice (ETHIMED) project that runs from 2022 – 2026, funded […]
Parliament has passed the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill 2022 into law, to abolish the death sentence penalty from the country’s statutes. Persons found guilty of murder, if the president assents to it, henceforth, would be sentenced to life imprisonment, the new law provides. The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, on Friday, July 14, […]
French oil giant TotalEnergies has started drilling oil wells in Uganda as part of the massive East African Crude Oil Pipeline project that has been opposed by environmental and human rights groups. TotalEnergies said Wednesday it had started drilling at its Tilenga project on the northern end of Lake Albert in Uganda this month “to […]
Harare — The U.S. has sanctioned Mali’s defense minister and two military officers, accusing them of facilitating the expansion of the Russian mercenary company Wagner in the West African country, Al Jazeera reports. Col. Sadio Camara, the chief of staff of the air force, Col. Alou Boi Diarra, and Lt. Col. Adama Bagayoko, the deputy […]
Addis Ababa — Three members of the US Congress have written a letter urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen to impose sanctions on individuals responsible for human rights abuses in Western Tigray, in Ethiopia. The letter, dated 20 July 2023, was written by Brad Sherman, James P. McGovern, and […]
Responding to a leaked government memo dated 19 July 2023, which was addressed to the Lagos State Ministry of Health and indicated that the state government had approved more than N61 million Naira for the mass burial of 103 persons identified as victims of the #EndSARS protests in October 2020, Isa Sanusi, Director of Amnesty […]
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Liberia: Respect Press Freedom
-EU and US warn Liberian stakeholders Barely two weeks following the closure of Spoon Network, members of the international community in Liberia have urged stakeholders here to respect the exercise of press freedom. In a joint statement issue by the European Union and its Member States represented in Liberia (Germany, Ireland, France, and Sweden) and […]
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned foreign observer missions that have been accredited to observe the August 23, 2023 harmonised elections to stick to their mandate. Addressing around 100 000 Zanu PF supporters in Centenary, Mashonaland Central province on Saturday, President Mnangagwa said Zimbabweans are a peace loving people and would never want to see violence […]
Harare — The British government imposed sanctions on 13 people and organizations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Mali, and Sudan with ties to the Wagner paramilitary group in Russia, Al Jazeera reports. This includes one it referred to be the “right-hand man” of the group’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to the British government, Wagner […]