Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday welcomed a report concluding that France bears overwhelming responsibilities over the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis in his country. A commission established by French President Emmanuel Macron said last month that France had “remained blind” to preparations for the mass killing of some 800,000 Rwandans, mainly from the ethnic Tutsi minority. The damning report follows…
Border clashes between the Afar and Somali regions predate the six-month-old conflict in the Tigray. Border clashes between Ethiopia’s Afar and Somali regions have killed at least 100 people, a regional official said, in the latest outbreak of violence ahead of national elections in June. About 100 civilians, many of them herders, were killed since…
By Sam Mednick South Sudan is not alone when it comes to COVID-19 corruption allegations. But some are asking whether there is a better way to provide aid in the world’s youngest country. Juba, South Sudan – When the pandemic struck, many feared South Sudan could be one of the hardest hit countries in Africa – years of conflict…
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Congo on Tuesday endorsed the re-election of President Denis Sassou Nguesso in the March 21 vote, after rejecting the opposition’s appeal. “On the final results of the election (…), the Constitutional Court has made the necessary rectifications and adjustments. The candidate Denis Sassou Nguesso, who won 88.40% of the presidential…
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia failed to make progress in the latest round of African Union-led talks to resolve their years-long dispute over a controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River. Foreign and irrigation ministers of the three nations met in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the current…
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President condemns ‘act of terrorism’ after gunmen destroy part of prison walls. More than 1,800 inmates have escaped prison in southeast Nigeria after militants armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades launched a series of co-ordinated attacks targeting the prison overnight, authorities said. The attacks began at about 2am in the town of Owerri in Imo state and lasted…
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The death toll from days of tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur has risen to 50, with 132 wounded, the West Darfur State Doctors’ Committee said on Tuesday. The government declared a state of emergency in the state on Monday after three days of clashes in El Geneina, the state capital. The…
G20 is expected this week to back $650bn in new IMF allocations to help countries cope with COVID pandemic. Moves to bolster the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) emergency reserves could provide the $44bn needed to vaccinate 70 percent of the population in lower- and middle-income countries by the end of 2022, at no added cost…
During a press conference on Monday in N’Djamena, Chad at the headquarters of the Transformateurs party of opposition leader Dr Succès Masra, he described the upcoming April 11 election as a masquerade. Accusing the regime of abuse, he presented the media with the remnants of ammunition that were fired by police at the political site.…