A Ugandan LGBT activist have said they plan to return to their home country next week even though they fear they could be arrested. DeLovie Kwagala, who is non-binary and prefers to use the pronoun ‘they,’ has been living in Johannesburg in South Africa since 2021 but their visa is about to expire. Anyone who “knowingly promotes homosexuality” faces up to 20… Read More

Azali Assoumani, the president of the Comoros, which is made up of just three islands off south-eastern Africa, has arrived in Hiroshima for the G7 summit. The Comoros was invited as it is chairing the African Union this year. Normally South Africa attends the summit but Japan has sidelined it for not imposing sanctions against Russia afrer it invaded Ukraine.… Read More

Hundreds of people fleeing the fighting in Sudan cross the main border post at Metema in western Ethiopia every day. Around 15,000 people from sixty different countries have crossed over between April 21st and May 7th.  Redin Abdela Ahmed, a student from Khartoum, was one of them. “We have to live together, suffer together, share our stuff with each other,… Read More

Twenty civilians, including women and children, were killed between Monday and Wednesday in two attacks by suspected jihadists in central-eastern Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Friday. On Wednesday, “armed groups carried out an incursion into Bilguimdouré”, a village in the commune of Sangha, in the province of Koulpélogo (center-east), bordering Ghana and Togo, “causing a dozen… Read More