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Pope Francis on Sunday called for the resumption of talks in Sudan where intense fighting between the Sudanese military and Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has claimed hundreds of lives and injured thousands. He urged de-facto leader General Abdel-Fattah Burhan and his rival General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo to enter dialogue to end the bloody conflict. “Yesterday, it was the World… Read More

Twenty-one bodies have so far been found on land owned by a pastor in Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death. Police said more shallow graves have yet to be dug up on the land belonging to pastor Paul Makenzi, who was arrested on April 14 over links to cultism. Human Rights Activist at Haki… Read More

The Muslim community in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, has been celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr to mark the end of Ramadan. But with South Africa battered by record blackouts over the past year, some of the preparations have been especially challenging. The state-owned power company Eskom has imposed load-shedding to manage the problem but life has still been difficult. Faheem Essop is a… Read More

The president of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros says he wants talks with Paris over plans to expel all illegal migrants from the French island of Mayotte, most of whom are Comorians. Earlier Azali Assoumani had insisted Comoros would not accept any of the migrants. Speaking on Saturday, (2 April) Azali Assoumani said: “In regards to the situation… Read More

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has refused to sign a controversial new anti-homosexuality bill, which carries the death penalty in some cases, and has called for it to be amended. Museveni’s decision was announced late Thursday after a meeting of MPs from his ruling party, almost all of whom support the bill. The meeting decided to send the bill back to… Read More

Ten civilians and three soldiers were killed in a number of incidents across Mali on Saturday. The government says 88 jihadists were put out of action in what they are describing as a resurgence of “terrorist incidents.” The attacks began with car bombs near Sevare airport which killed 10 people and injured 61 others. They also destroyed some houses in… Read More

Ten members of the same family, seven of them women, were killed in a mass shooting at a house in South Africa, police said Friday. According to initial reports, they were ambushed by unknown gunmen at the home in the city of Pietermaritzburg in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, police said. The shooting happened Thursday night or early Friday morning. Police… Read More

France “hopes that the political transition underway in Guinea will be successful.” Its was a key message of the visit to Conakry of the French foreign ministry’s State Secretary for development who gave a press conference Thursday (Apr. 20). The one who attended a presser along with French ambassador in Guinea and other officials had arrived Tuesday (Apr.18) in Guinea’s… Read More

The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros has insisted it will not accept migrants expelled from the neighbouring French island of Mayotte. It comes as authorities in Mayotte have pledged to launch Operation Wuambushu in which all migrants without official papers will be sent back to the Comoran island of Anjouan, 70km away.  Some, who gathered for Friday prayers, were… Read More

Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, has backed a controversial bill with some of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but will pass it back to parliament to include provisions for gay people to be rehabilitated. However, at a National Resistance Movement (NRM) meeting on Friday, Museveni praised the lawmakers for approving the bill and insisted he would never bow to international condemnation.… Read More