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Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) welcomes a “landmark” ruling by Kenya’s High Court that ordered the government to pay compensation to four female survivors of a wave of sexual violence that unfurled after violently disputed elections in 2007. The four will each receive the equivalent of around $36,000, while another four plaintiffs — two women and two men — had… Read More

Higher Coronavirus Infections and an Even Lower Death Rate The Covid-19 pandemic hit Kenya in March with around 20,636 cases and 341 deaths reported at July’s end. Figures significantly lower than those in Europe and the United States. However, recent testing is revealing that more Kenyans could be infected than initially believed. Isabella Ochola-Oyier, the Head of the Biosciences department… Read More

Time Magazine names U.S President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris as the 2020 Time persons of the year. The Democratic duo beat three other finalists, frontline health workers and top US infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the racial justice movement and outgoing U.S president Donald Trump. The magazine said Biden and Harris offered restoration and renewal in… Read More

Italy Will Not Let it Go Italian prosecutors formally put four high-ranking members of Egypt’s security forces under investigation on Thursday over the alleged 2016 kidnapping, torture and killing of Italian doctoral research student Giulio Regeni — whose body was found on a highway in Cairo. Sergio Colaiocco, a prosecutor in Rome, Italy, told a session of a special parliamentary… Read More

Among the thousands of people fleeing the five-week-old conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are a few dozen men, women and children from Eritrea, one of the world’s most authoritarian states. They were already living as refugees in Tigray, which had long been a safe haven for them during years of conflict and repression in Eritrea. But when Ethiopian Prime Minister… Read More

Among the thousands of people fleeing the five-week-old conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are a few dozen men, women and children from Eritrea, one of the world’s most authoritarian states. They were already living as refugees in Tigray, which had long been a safe haven for them during years of conflict and repression in Eritrea. But when Ethiopian Prime Minister… Read More

After a three-day boat trip from Western Sahara, Mohceine Ait Lamadane reached the Canaries and from there travelled to Italy, taking advantage of a system swamped by arrivals and slowed by the coronavirus. “I paid 2,000 euros ($2,430) for the crossing,” 23-year-old Lamdane told AFP in late November after disembarking at Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria where Spain’s coastguard drops… Read More

After a three-day boat trip from Western Sahara, Mohceine Ait Lamadane reached the Canaries and from there travelled to Italy, taking advantage of a system swamped by arrivals and slowed by the coronavirus. “I paid 2,000 euros ($2,430) for the crossing,” 23-year-old Lamdane told AFP in late November after disembarking at Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria where Spain’s coastguard drops… Read More

A family separated as they fled Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been reunited in Sudan. Tsiga Tegra’s husband was detained by armed men for seven days in their village before being released, but the experience left the family feeling they had no choice but to flee. Leaving in various directions they had no idea if they would see each other again… Read More

South Africa’s power utility ESKOM is set to receive cash from various companies suspected of embezzlement. The latest move involves $103 Million to be paid by the Zurich engineering group ABB. The amount is coming as a result of over payments in the construction of coal-fired electricity plants. The South Africa’s authorities are probing various companied believed to have swindled… Read More