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Opposition leaders and social commentators in Rwanda are being persecuted by the authorities for “their speech and opinions”, intensifying culture of intolerance towards dissent, a human rights group has said. In a report published on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch said it had monitored court documents, verdicts and judges’ arguments against several Rwandans who have ended up behind bars due to… Read More

From airlines in Nigeria to shoppers in Malawi, Africans are feeling the impact of the Ukraine crisis in wrenching increases in the price of fuel, grain and fertiliser. In City mall, a Lilongwe supermaket in Malawi, we are thousands of kilometres away from the frontlines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. However, the distance doesn’t mitigate the high price local households have… Read More

The United Nations Security Council voted on Tuesday to extend for a year the peace keeping mission in South Sudan. The United Nations Security Council extended on Tuesday the peace security mission in South Sudan. The resolution sets the end of the missions mandate on March 15th, 2023. The current level of deployment should remain unchanged and up to 17,000… Read More

Some over 1000 000 condoms, 908 000 mosquito nets and tuberculosis drugs worth Sh10 million ($87 000) are reported missing from a warehouse operated by the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa). They are believed to have been stolen and resold on the black market and to private chemists, according to the United Nations Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and… Read More

Nigeria’s inflation rate rose in February after recording a fall in January as Africa’s most populous nation faces fuel shortages that have helped push prices higher. The country’s statistics office announced Tuesday that the consumer price index (CPI) increase between February 2021 and February 2022 was 15.70 per cent, higher than 15.60 per cent recorded in January, The National Bureau… Read More

“You see, here, we have an internal database of the Russian Ministry of Education that has leaked,” says Clement Domingo, his finger pointed at a Cyrillic document from the encrypted messaging system Telegram. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this cybersecurity specialist, co-founder of the NGO “Hackers Without Borders”, has been sleeping only a few hours a night. “It’s pretty crazy… Read More

A key suspect in the filmed sexual assault of a diplomat has told a Kenyan court that he attempted to flee the country when he realized his pictures had gone viral on social media. Zachariah Nyaora Obadia appeared in Nairobi’s Milimani Law Courts on Tuesday, a day after police arrested him at the Tanzanian border. He will now be detained… Read More

A Sudanese government official on Tuesday alleged that security forces attempted to rape a young woman during a protest against military rule in central Khartoum, prompting calls for renewed demonstrations. Sulaima Ishaq, who heads Sudan’s Violence against Women Unit at the Ministry of Social Development, said the woman, who was not a protester, was in a commercial bus when forces… Read More

Last updated: 3 hours ago Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Tuesday to denounce the October military coup that plunged the country into further turmoil. Security forces fired tear gas canisters at the anti-coup protesters and also sprayed coloured water. Some protesters picked up the bombs and threw them back at the security… Read More

Kenya’s Deputy President has taken a swipe at his boss, President Uhuru Kenyatta over his decision to support the former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Ruto accused Kenyatta of his economic policies claiming that Kenya was heading in the wrong direction and that he will fix the mess within 30 days after being elected into office. The statement was in relation… Read More