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The Executive Director of Uganda’s most prominent rights organisation Chapter Four, and the Chairperson of the Citizens’ Coalition for Electoral Democracy (CCEDU), react to the Ugandan government’s decision to close down 54 civil society groups. The shutdown was ordered “with immediate effect”, the National Bureau for NGOs, part of the ministry of internal affairs, said in a statement. The Ugandan… Read More

Guinea on Thursday questioned the diagnosis made by Côte d’Ivoire on a young Guinean woman who recently tested positive for Ebola in Abidjan, with Ivorian authorities saying they had no “doubts”. The Guinean Minister of Health, Remy Lamah on Thursday demanded that Côte d’Ivoire carry out a new analysis. He also stressed in the letter that the Guinean medical team… Read More

At every doorstep, Prince Wiro is greeted warmly as he makes his way through the winding alleys of Afikpo, a poor neighborhood in the southeastern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt. Since Prince Wiro began organizing volunteer patrols two years ago to combat insecurity in this area, where there are no police, crime has dropped. In particular, the abuse of… Read More

Chickens wander around the courtyard from which familiar urban music emanates. Ten years after their glory days, Staff Benda Bilili dream of returning to the limelight and claim all the fruits of their former success, even if it means falling out with those who made them known. In the early 2010s, these penniless, disabled Congolese musicians, living on the streets… Read More

Fighting on Thursday and Friday between the army and the armed group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the east and northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo has left at least 18 people dead: 9 civilians, a soldier and 8 rebels, sources said. “At least 9 civilians were killed on the night of (Thursday to Friday) in #Katanda (territory of… Read More

Eighty people, including 65 civilians and 15 gendarmes, were killed in Wednesday’s jihadist attack on a military convoy escorting civilians in northern Burkina Faso, according to a new official toll released Thursday night. A government source had revised upwards the initially announced death toll of 14 gendarmes after the death of a 15th wounded gendarme, which the gendarmerie confirmed on… Read More

South Africa, which has struggled to obtain Covid vaccines too rare, too expensive before launching its immunization campaign with much delay, is now facing a disturbing rejection of the vaccine by part of its population. In front of this vaccination center in Johannesburg, the queue was getting longer and longer until a few weeks ago. Today, only three people are… Read More

The United States announced Thursday it is offering a $5 million reward for the arrest of Guinea-Bissau’s former coup leader Antonio Indjai, wanted for his alleged role in a drug deal linked to Colombian Farc guerrillas. On April 13, 2012, General Antonio Indjai, then chief of staff in the politically unstable West African country, staged a coup, disrupting the electoral… Read More

Humbo’s story is the tale of a broken destiny. He was the hope of Nigerian boxing but he sank into the consumption of codeine. An opioid is used as a powerful painkiller but very addictive. For the past 10 years, this product took control of his life and shattered his career. “Codeine has not really helped me. It has made… Read More

Algeria will review its relations with Morocco after accusing it of complicity in deadly forest fires, a presidency statement said Wednesday, in the latest tensions between the North African neighbours. At least 90 people, including 33 soldiers, were killed in dozens of forest fires that broke out amid a blistering heatwave on August 9 across swathes of northern Algeria. President… Read More