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Abdul Rahman Zankad of Mohammedia, Morocco was arrested in March after posting on Facebook about the Israel’s war in Gaza and Morocco’s 2020 decision to establish diplomatic ties with Israel, the Moroccan Space for Human Rights said in a statement.Sourced from Africanews Read More

The meeting comes amid the U.K. government’s stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda and reports in the British media that housing in Kigali outlined for the scheme had been sold.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Somalia and Ethiopia enjoyed peaceful relations until January this year when the memorandum with Somaliland sparked diplomatic tensions between the security partners and neighbours in eastern Africa.Sourced from Africanews Read More

From April 8 to April 10, Togolese lawmakers will conduct a tour to “listen to and inform civilians on the constitutional reform”. After a week of growing public discontent, the presidency had announced that the constitutional reform bill will be tabled again in ParliamenSourced from Africanews Read More

Mulugeta Uma clocked a winning time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 33 seconds and finished ahead of Kenyan pair Titus Kipruto (2:05.48) and 2021 champion Elisha Rotich (2:06.54). Mestawut Fikir won in 2:20:45, with her compatriot Tirusew three seconds behind.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Heavy winds also fanned wildfires in the Glencairne area in Cape Town, where at least eight houses were gutted, according to a local representative. Storms and strong rainfalls battering the province Western Cape, which includes the country’s second-largest city have left at least one person dead.Sourced from Africanews Read More

“France could have stopped the genocide”, on April 7, French president Emmanuel Macron eventually did not say these words. They had been announced by his office days before the 30th commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda. What happened in just a few days?Sourced from Africanews Read More

“I am very happy that Zimbabweans are very imaginative,” the octogenarian said. Much attention has been drawn to a slogan heard at Zanu PF rallies in recent months ‘2030 vaMnangagwa vanenge vachipo’ (which can be understood as ‘2030 Mnangagwa will still be president’).Sourced from Africanews Read More

Activist Frank Mugisha said the Constitutional Court ruling to uphold the controversial anti-homosexuality bill was “wrong and deplorable.” “This ruling should result in further restrictions to donor funding for Uganda — no donor should be funding anti-LGBTQ+ hate and human rights violations,” he saSourced from Africanews Read More

This year, to mark the 10th anniversary of a largely forgotten tragedy, members of Borno state’s Chibok community gathered Thursday (Apr. 4) in Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos to attend the screening of “Statues Also Breathe,” a collaborative film project.Sourced from Africanews Read More