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**In Uganda, the promoter of a deadly New Year’s Eve event and the concert MC appeared in court Tuesday (Jan. 10).** They were granted bail after the hearing by the Makindye Magistrates Court. Promoter Abby Musinguzi and MC Elvis Francis Juuko remain charged with crimes including counts of neglects. Speaking outside the Kampala courtoom, the defense lawyer gave more details.… Read More

France’s deputy foreign minister, on a visit to jihadist-torn Burkina Faso, denies accusations that Paris is seeking to meddle in the already troubled former colony. Speaking after her exchange with junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, junior minister Chrysoula Zacharopoulou affirms that France “is imposing nothing” on Burkina Faso. “I have come to bring a clear message, that of the continued… Read More

The Church of England on Tuesday apologized for past links to slavery by a related financial body now engaged in a wide-ranging process to compensate victimized communities. “I am deeply sorry,” responded Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church. “The time has come to take action in response to this shameful past.” The report released… Read More

Uganda’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday removed a key part of a controversial internet law which rights groups charged was aimed at stifling free speech. A section of the Computer Misuse Act made it an offence for anyone to “use electronic communication to disturb or attempt to disturb the peace, quiet or right of privacy of any person with no purpose… Read More

A Moroccan appeals court increased the sentences of 13 migrants by six months to three years over a deadly attempted crossing into the Spanish enclave of Melilla, their lawyer said on Monday (Jan. 09). Around 2,000 people, many of them Sudanese, stormed the frontier on June 24 in a bid to reach Spanish territory across one of the European Union’s… Read More

Borussia Dortmund striker Sebastien Haller said Monday that he remains optimistic about playing in his team’s first competitive match as early as Jan. 22, as he recovers from testicular cancer. Speaking from the German team’s winter training center in Marbella, Spain, Haller said he was doing his best to be fit for the home game against Augsburg while saying he… Read More

Nigeria has officially restricted massive cash withdrawals from the bank beginning Monday the 9th January in an effort to cool off inflation. Nigerians will only be allowed to withdraw 44 dollars per week per individual and $11,000 for businesses, a policy that is most likely to affect millions of Nigerians especially businessmen and high cash intensive activities. The stated goal… Read More

The Somalia-based al-Shabab extremist group has denied having contact with the Somali government after the country’s deputy defense minister claimed that the extremists had for the first time asked to negotiate. An unnamed al-Shabab official with the group’s media unit told a pro-al-Shabab website in comments published Sunday that “there is no talk between us.” On Saturday, Deputy Defense Minister… Read More

**On Monday (Jan. 09), a Kenyan court allowed the police to hold five suspects over the death of activist Edwin Chiloba.** The suspects include a freelance photographer, who was reportedly a lover of the 25-year-old and is accused of killing him. They appeared in court in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret but did not enter pleas. Senior principal magistrate… Read More

Rwandan president Paul Kagame said on Monday that the country can no longer accept refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In eastern DRC, a region rich in mineral resources, fighting between government forces and rebels from the M23 movement, a former Tutsi rebellion, has increased tensions with neighbouring Rwanda, which the DRC accuses of supporting the militia.  Rwanda… Read More