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With Kenya on the verge of tabling anti-LGBT legislation in parliament, advocacy groups in the US have called for a halt to trade talks between the two countries. Led by MP George Peter Kaluma, a member of opposition politician Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement, the proposed bill would further criminalise same-sex acts with penalties ranging from a suggested minimum of… Read More

Chadian leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has pardoned 110 more people sentenced to jail terms following deadly protests against the regime last October. Demonstrations against the extension of Deby’s transitional rule broke out last October in the capital N’Djamena and several other towns. Deby was proclaimed head of state by the army in April 2021 after the death of… Read More

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune began a state visit to China on Monday, with both economic and diplomatic priorities as the North African nation seeks to become less dependent on gas and raise its global profile. The visit follows Tebboune’s trip last month to Russia, a longtime military partner and supplier, although Algeria has remained officially neutral in Moscow’s war in… Read More

The regional force deployed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo announced on Monday that it was sending a “verification mission” to the area where the M23 rebels allegedly killed 11 men at the weekend. Local sources told news agency AFP that the massacre had occurred in Rutshuru territory, some 100 km north of Goma, capital of North… Read More

The European Union wishes to negotiate with Egypt and Morocco partnerships similar to the one it has just concluded with Tunisia, relating in particular to the fight against irregular immigration, a European source said on Monday. The EU and Tunisia signed a memorandum of understanding in Tunis on Sunday for a “comprehensive strategic partnership”, which also concerns the country’s economic… Read More

Authorities in Kenya announced on Monday the discovery of 12 new bodies in the Shakahola forest where an evangelical sect practising extreme fasting was meeting. The new discovery brings the death toll to 403. Almost three months after the first victims of what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre” were discovered, police believe that most of the exhumed bodies… Read More

At the age of 18, she is the role model for dozens of girls in the small village where she grew up, has joined the elite with Real Madrid and is about to play in her third World Cup in less than 12 months: Linda Caicedo, the best player in Colombian women’s soccer. With braided hair and a permanent smile,… Read More

The lawyer representing the family of former MP and opposition politician, Chérubin Okende, lodged a complaint against “unknown persons” with the public prosecutor’s office in Kinshasa. The former government minister and opposition politician was found murdered last Thursday in DRC’s capital. “Mr Chérubin Okende was murdered in unimaginable circumstances and the family, after consultation with the widow, children, fathers of… Read More

The last of 17 historic venues known as Azmari Bets, the Ethiopian cabaret club Fendika has been saved from demolition in Addis Ababa. Situated in the Kazanchis district of Ethiopia’s capital, the Azmari Bet, or House of Azmari in Amharic, originally hosted performances by Ethiopia’s Azmari musicians. The Azmari, itinerant poet-musicians from rural Ethiopia, improvise to the sound of the masinqo,… Read More

A five-storey building collapsed in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Monday, killing at least nine people, authorities said, as rescuers dig through the rubble. Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and lack of maintenance are widespread in slums, city slums and rural areas. The state-run MENA news agency reported that rescue teams recovered at least nine bodies… Read More