EMMANUEL AKINWOTU Nigeria’s government says it will resist pressure from the Trump administration to accept deportees from Venezuela and other third countries. In an interview with Nigeria’s Channels TV on Friday, July 11, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said the U.S. was pressuring several African nations to accept foreign nationals whom the U.S. wants to deport. […]
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OUGNA CAMARA Guinea’s interim parliament proposed that presidential term limits be extended, months before the country is scheduled to hold elections after four years of military rule. The National Transitional Council wants the West African nation’s constitution to allow the president to serve for seven years, instead of five, with a limit of two terms, […]
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CHRIS EWOKOR Mali’s military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which is renewable without elections. The junta leader, who has seized power twice, had promised the return of democracy last year, but it never materialized. The bill granting his new mandate said it could be renewed […]
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The 80-year-old leader pledges economic growth from today’s GDP of $66bn to $500bn within the next five years. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed he will contest next year’s presidential election, setting the stage for a potential extension of his nearly 40-year rule. The 80-year-old announced late on Saturday, June 28, that he had expressed […]
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DJAMILIA PRANGE de OLIVEIRA For Juliana Lumumba, Patrice Lumumba wasn’t just an independence leader and politician. He has her father. That’s why she continues to call for the truth about Lumumba’s assassination 64 years ago.For more than 60 years, Juliana Lumumba has had questions. Who murdered her father? How did the Americans help? What did […]
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Child marriage and sexual violence plague women and girls as climate change threatens the northern Marsabit region. TOM PARRY As the sun approaches its scorching zenith, Dukano Kelle heads out from the desolate settlement of Kambinye in northern Kenya, urging her family’s reluctant donkey forward by whipping it with an acacia branch. Though the oppressive […]
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At her ‘Home of Hope’, Edith Lukabwe cares for children abandoned by their families. CHRISTOPHER HOPKINS On a muddy, uneven and unnamed road on the outskirts of the eastern city of Jinja, children laugh and play in a compound surrounded by green hills and sugarcane plantations. A child hurtles his wheelchair down the driveway at […]
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DAVID EHL Cameroon’s displacement crises are overlooked and underfunded: nowhere else is there such disparity between the political and media attention and the gravity of the situation, reports the Norwegian Refugee Council. Whenever a conflict flares up anywhere in the world, there’s generally three things outsiders can do. Governments and institutions can mediate at the […]
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Namibia on Wednesday, May 28 held its first national commemoration for the victims of mass killings by colonial-era German troops, in what is widely recognized as the first genocide of the 20th century. However, some organizations representing victims’ descendants have declined to take part. MELISSA CHEMAM Between 1904 and 1908, German troops massacred tens of […]
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Archaeologists in Senegal have uncovered skeletons with bullets lodged in the bodies during the first excavation of a cemetery at the former military camp of Thiaroye outside Dakar, where French soldiers massacred African colonial troops. Excavations at the Thiaroye military cemetery began in early May. These are aimed at shedding light on the events of […]
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