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Burkina Faso: Pan-African film festival in full swing amid security concerns

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The biannual Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is in full swing amid security concerns. The festival which was last held in 2021 is taking place at a time Burkina Faso has a new military leader and serious security breaches. The political fallout from two coups within eight months and spiralling violence driven by groups linked to al Qaeda… Read More
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Multichoice and Comcast to create streaming service in Africa

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Africa’s biggest pay TV company, MultiChoice Group has said on Thursday that it has entered into an agreement with U.S.-based media conglomerate Comcast to create a pan-Africa video streaming platform. The new streaming service, which will be built on MultiChoice’s streaming platform Showmax, will be 70% owned by the company, it said. As part of the partnership MultiChoice will relaunch… Read More
Africa World 

Millions of internet users in Africa facing phishing attacks

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Kaspersky’s anti-phishing system prevented more than 500 million attempts at accessing fraudulent websites globally in 2022. This is twice more compared to 2021 figures. In Africa, 8.7% of individuals and corporate users were affected by phishing: attacks on their devices were detected and stopped. In South Africa, the share of users affected by phishing stands at 9.7%, followed by Kenya at… Read More
Pacific 

Food rationing for Rohingya refugees a ‘matter of life and death’: rights expert

Village Reporter
The development follows the UN World Food Programme (WFP)’s announcement that it would be cutting back on assistance to those sheltering in the vast Cox’s Bazar camp complex from 1 March because of a lack of funding. “These rations cuts are a stain on the conscience of the international community,” said Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar. “I have spoken with desperate families in… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

Bola Tinubu wins Nigeria’s presidential election

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The candidate for Nigeria’s ruling party Bola Tinubu has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s disputed presidential election. Official results show that the 70-year-old veteran politician got 36% of the vote. His main rival Atiku Abubakar polled 29%, and Labour’s Peter Obi 25%. Their parties had earlier dismissed the poll as a sham, and demanded a rerun. Mr. Tinubu is… Read More
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Top Nigerian lawmaker arrested over murder allegations

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A leading Nigerian lawmaker, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, has been arrested by the police for allegedly being involved in the killing of three individuals during the just ended general elections. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives was reportedly arrested on Wednesday at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport. The Police Public Relations Officer in Kano state, Abdullahi… Read More
Pacific 

Afghanistan still a grave humanitarian crisis, senior aid official says

Village Reporter
Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Deputy Special Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, updated journalists in New York on developments in a country where 28 million people now depend on aid to survive.  Immense humanitarian needs  “Afghanistan remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in 2023, notwithstanding, of course, the recent devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria,” he said, speaking via videolink from… Read More
Europe 

UN special adviser denounces genocide denial in Bosnia

Village Reporter
Raising concerns over such continuous reports of revisionism concerning atrocity crimes perpetrated during the three-year-long conflict that began in 1992, she also pointed to recent incidents reported following a decision to amend the Law on the Center for the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial and Cemetery for the Victims of the 1995 Genocide. “The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia determined conclusively… Read More
Africa Nigeria News and Headlines West Africa World 

What observers have said about Nigeria’s general elections

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Various observer missions monitoring the Nigerian elections have given their preliminary assessments of the process so far. Tensions have been high as Nigerians anxiously wait for the final results of Saturday’s general elections. The electoral commission has been announcing state-by-state results but is yet to make significant progress in declaring the winner of the presidential election. The head of the… Read More
Europe 

Armenia: Rights experts commend laws to curb use of mercenaries

Village Reporter
The members of the UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries also called for greater oversight by the Government as well as stronger integration of human rights in domestic policies.  “Armenia stands out in its efforts to integrate the 1989 UN Convention on Mercenaries in its domestic legislation, specifically in Article 147 of the Criminal Code which provides for… Read More
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