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A group of independent UN experts accused several South Sudanese officials on Monday of responsibility in a series of atrocities committed against civilians. After gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan, the world’s youngest state, descended into a civil war between arch-enemies Riek Machar and Salva Kiir that left nearly 400,000 dead and millions displaced between 2013 and 2018… Read More

Malawi is looking for a new head coach after the Football Association announced it was not renewing the contract with Mario Marinica. Behind the decision is last week’s defeat 4-0 to Egypt which leaves the Flames with little chance of reaching next year’s Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast. Malawi finished third in Group D with three points, behind Guinea… Read More

East African regional forces have announced that are now in control of Bunagana, a strategic town in eastern DRC previously held by M23 rebels for more than nine months. The spokesman for the Ugandan contingent of the regional force, Captain Kato Ahmad Hassan, confirmed that the M23 rebels had been cooperative during the transition process. The rebels’ departure from Bunagana… Read More

The military junta in power in Burkina Faso expelled on Saturday evening the correspondents of two major French daily newspapers, Le Monde and Liberation, a new sign of the deterioration of press freedom and relations with France in this country bruised by jihadist violence. These expulsions of Sophie Douce from Le Monde and Agnès Faivre from Liberation, who arrived in… Read More

The Sahel’s many crises are becoming increasingly difficult for journalists to cover freely, especially now that the military has taken over in some countries, Reporters Without Borders said in a report released on Monday. The Sahelian strip that crosses the continent from west to east threatens to become “Africa’s largest information blackout zone,” RSF said in the gloomy report. The… Read More

Pretoria could be forced to arrest the Russian president in respect of its obligations vis-à-vis international justice, in particular the Rome Statute. The government of Cyril Ramaphosa does not hide its concern. Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on March 17 against Russian President Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, all eyes have been… Read More

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga announced Sunday he was calling off a protest on Monday and would embark on dialogue with the government after two weeks of chaotic street demonstrations. Three people have died and properties and businesses been looted since anti-government protests erupted on March 20, alarming neighbours and allies of a country seen as a stable democracy in… Read More

The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property law today. A Vatican statement said the papal bulls, or decrees, “did not adequately reflect the equal dignity and rights of Indigenous peoples”… Read More

The U. S. vice president has ended her weeklong trip across Africa. Kamala Harris met with Zambia’s, Tanzania’s and Ghana’s heads of state during her 3-leg journey.  If the influence of other foreign powers loomed over her trip, she tried to deepen and reframe U.S. relationships with the continent. She highlighted major steps in that direction, on Saturday (Apr. 1st).… Read More

Senior members of South Africa’s ruling party ANC are on a “working visit” to Russia. In a statement on Saturday evening, the African National Congress party said the visit followed an invitation from Russia’s ruling party and ally the United Russia Party. The meeting is set to include discussions on “the recalibration of the global order to reverse the consequences… Read More