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Going forward, UK soldiers could be tried for murder, amongst other grave offences, committed against Kenyans in Kenya. Kenyan MPs voted Wednesday (Apr. 12) to amend a defence agreement with the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The amended deal will now go to the Kenyan Ministry of Defence for further negotiation with their British… Read More

A Kenyan court hears a bid by Facebook’s parent company Meta to stop a lawsuit accusing it among other things of exploitation and poor working conditions. Meta is seeking to have the case struck down, arguing that the local employment and labour relations court has no jurisdiction over it because it is neither based in nor trades in Kenya. In… Read More

Nakuru County lies within East Africa’s vast Rift Valley. Hundreds of thousands of people here are suffering from acute water shortages, made much worse by drought. Volcanic and tectonic activity in the rift started about 30 million years ago and the area is still geologically active, with volcanoes, hot springs, and geysers. Now local communities here are embracing this local resource. In… Read More

United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, appealed for “massive international support” for Somalia during his visit to the country which came as it faces its worst drought in decades. He said the nation was dealing with humanitarian difficulties while at the same time also combating a serious terrorism threat. “The international community has the responsibility and the interest to support Somalia… Read More

The lawyer for an 11-year-old Moroccan girl, whose rapists received light sentences, on Wednesday appealed to the authorities to review laws protecting minors. Speaking on the eve of a new appeal hearing, Mohamed Sebbar, said the “debate on the protection of minors against sexual violence” should be intensified. The girl from a village near Rabat, who is now 12, was… Read More

This Ramadan in Algeria is described as one of the most economically costly in the country’s history due to the sharp increase in the prices of some basic foodstuffs. The increase in food prices, which started months ago with the reflections of the Covid-19 epidemic affecting the whole world and the Russia-Ukraine war, multiplied before Ramadan despite the government’s economic… Read More

South Africa said on Wednesday that an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin had complicated matters for the country ahead of a BRICS summit it is due to host in August. “All heads of state would be expected to attend the summit. But now we have a spanner in the works in the form of this ICC warrant,”… Read More

Lucia is a 7-year-old bubbly girl. She is playing with her mother in their living room in The Congo’s capital, Brazzaville.  Ngouembe Laskine Chalvee has progressively learnt to help her autistic daughter thrive. The family discovered Lucia’s condition when she was 4. “At the beginning it was difficult for me because it was a first to me, I was just… Read More

Tunisian police used tear gas on Tuesday to disperse about 100 African asylum seekers and migrants who had been camping outside the headquarters of the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in the capital, Tunis for some 25 days. In an open letter, the group from 15 sub-Saharan countries said they had “taken refuge” near the building after being “chased out” of… Read More

The Ethiopian government has announced that two employees of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) were shot dead over the weekend in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, which has been plagued by unrest for several days, the NGO said on Tuesday. Protests and road blockades in Amhara have been reported since Thursday, after the federal government began the process of disarming… Read More