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Four suspected separatists in Cameroon’s troubled anglophone regions have been sentenced to death over the killing of seven schoolchildren, the defence ministry announced on Friday. A military court on Tuesday sentenced the four to “execution in public by firing squad,” it said in a statement to AFP. The seven children, aged between nine and 12, were killed in October last… Read More

More than 1,200 civilians have been killed in the restive DR Congo provinces of Ituri and North Kivu so far this year and millions of people now need humanitarian aid in the eastern region, the UN refugee agency said Friday. Democratic Republic of Congo authorities declared a state of siege in May, an exceptional measure aimed at ending the reign… Read More

Local officials in Ethiopia alleged Wednesday that Tigray forces have killed more than 120 civilians in recent days following battlefield losses, in what would be one of the deadliest massacres of the East African nation’s 10-month war. Tigray forces denied killing civilians. Sewunet Wubalem, administrator for the Dabat district in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region, told The Associated Press that 123… Read More

South Africa on Friday launched the main phase of a global Covid vaccine study on children and teenagers led by Chinese maker Sinovac Biotech, with the first two participants jabbed in Pretoria. The study is testing the efficacy of Sinovac’s two-dose CoronaVac on 14,000 children aged between six months and 17 years in Chile, Kenya, Malaysia, the Philippines, and South… Read More

The loss of a loved one can be both a moment of terrible loss and grief, and a moment of reckoning. In South Africa sending a loved one off to their final resting place in a dignified manner; while mourning and observing cultural responsibilities; and tending to bottomless teas and coffees to friends and family – all the while trying… Read More

In his eleven years in power in Guinea, President Alpha Condé was regularly singled out by human rights organisations. Amnesty International and Guinean NGOs deplored the militarisation of his power. The detentions of opponents after his much disputed victory in the October 2020 elections had triggered the anger of members of the FNDC, the National Front for the Defence of… Read More

Nigerian local authorities have extended a telecom shutdown in northwest Zamfara state to a neighbouring state as part of an ongoing military crackdown on gangs behind a series of mass kidnappings, an official said Friday. Nigerian security forces in Zamfara last week began one of their largest recent operations against the armed gangs, known locally as bandits, in an attempt… Read More

Zambia’s new President Hakainde Hichilema vowed Friday to strengthen anti-corruption efforts and show “zero tolerance” for graft, in his first speech to parliament. Hichilema, elected last month in a landslide, said the government would devise a mechanism to recover state assets allegedly stolen under the southern African country’s previous regime. On his arrival at the National Assembly, Hichilema received a… Read More

With the nimbleness of a younger man, John Ngaii Moses skillfully knotted a tiny fishing fly onto his line, and hopping over mossy rocks, cast off into the surging river flowing through Kenyan tea country. “I can tie a fly at night, without a light,” the 60-year-old fisherman said with a grin, flicking his line with a graceful arc into… Read More

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited a restive southeastern state on Thursday in a region where separatist tensions and attacks on police have been on the rise. The visit to Imo State came two months after a southeast Biafra separatist leader Nnamndi Kanu was captured overseas and brought back to Nigeria to face trial. With a heavy security presence after Kanu’s… Read More