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The British government vowed Wednesday to organize more flights to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda after a last-minute court judgment grounded the first plane due to take off under the controversial deal. Home Secretary Priti Patel said “preparation for the next flight begins now” despite legal rulings that none of the migrants earmarked for deportation could be sent to the East… Read More

Digital giants operating in Tanzania may have to start paying 2% tax by July this year. Tanzania’s finance and planning minister, Mwigulu Nchemba, made the proposed tax official on Tuesday during the annual budget presentation to parliament. The proposal is however waiting for parliament approval before implementation. “The Tanzania Revenue Authority will establish a simplified registration process for digital economy… Read More

At least seven people have been killed, four of them beheaded, in recent jihadist attacks in northeastern Mozambique, violence that is now affecting areas previously relatively untouched and causing massive new displacement. According to the UN and the NGO Save the Children on Tuesday, 10,000 people have fled their homes in the past week. The country has been plagued since… Read More

“The security forces have packed up and left. Several survivors of the attack in Seytenga, Burkina Faso, told AFP how they found themselves alone against the attackers, jihadists who massacred at least 79 people according to authorities. According to these witnesses, the carnage began late Saturday in this town in northern Burkina Faso, a few kilometers from Niger, in a… Read More

The Rwandan government has once again defended a controversial deal to take in migrants deported from the United Kingdom, saying it was ready to take in “thousands” under the “innovative” programme. At a press conference in the Rwandan capital Kigali on Tuesday, June 14, government spokesperson Yolande Makolo said the agreement, criticised by the UN and human rights organisations, was… Read More

“A lot of them (the incoming migrants) have misconceptions about what Rwanda is like and about what Africa is like and to be quite honest some of this is perpetrated by media, and that does not reflect the reality of our countries.” The words of Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo at a press conference in Kigali. “The accommodation facility is not a detention… Read More

In the medina of Tunis, Ali Arfaoui a traditional potter has his workshop. As in much of the Mediterraean, the ceramics is an old tradition in Tunisia. Ali has been working in the sector for the past 35 years. Like always, everything starts when he sits before his table and gets a bare clay plate in his hands: ” I have… Read More

A sombre mood it is across Burkina Faso where yet another jihadist attack over the weekend in the north has left at least 79 people killed. Following the bloodshed, the government on Monday began three days of mourning. The west African nation familiar with news of this kind is shaken. “At first, we had hope, we had believed that as it… Read More