By Paul Glynn BBC News An emergency radio service for Sudan is to be launched on BBC News Arabic on Tuesday, by the World Service. The pop-up radio service will be broadcast twice daily for three months, providing news and information for people in the war-torn African nation. It will include eyewitness accounts and news…
By Dorcas Wangira BBC News, Malindi Kenyan preacher Paul Nthenge Mackenzie is due to appear in court following the discovery of scores of bodies in a remote forest. He is accused of encouraging followers to starve themselves to death – hundreds of relatives are now wondering what happened to their loved ones. When the leader…
By Africanews KENYA Authorities in Kenya have started performing autopsies on over 100 bodies of members of a religious cult who starved themselves to death. The investigators exhumed the bodies of 10 children on Monday and found signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation. The Christian-based cult was founded by Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, a former taxi driver, who has been in police custody since…
By Africanews GHANA The Japanese Prime-Minister, Kishida Fumio, arrived in Ghana on Monday on the second leg of an African tour. Fumio met Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo and both vowed to continue to pursue reforms at the UN Security Council. Japan and Ghana are serving as non-permanent members of the Security Council. The Ghanaian President added that the current Security Council permanent members does…
Summary Bashir and his former top officials have been moved to an undisclosed place. While the civilian pro-democracy movements have been pushing for the handover of Bashir to The Hague, both Burhan and Dagalo have been resisting the transfer. Bashir faces the charges of five counts of crimes against humanity committed between 2003 and 2008…
Summary The Agha Khan University Hospital vice-chancellor says the first phase of the construction which will cost $100m will be completed in 2026. The hospital will cover health as well as education, training and research to be able to offer the best medical treatment. The Uganda Cancer Institute 2022 data shows that 33,000 Ugandans are…
By Joe Inwood BBC Newsnight An NHS doctor trapped in Sudan after visiting family for Eid has urged the government to fly him back to the UK, saying he feels “betrayed” after being turned away from evacuation flights. Sudanese-born Dr Abdulrahman Babiker is due back on shift as a registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary…
By Peter Mwai, Deka Barrow and Rose Njoroge BBC News The leader of a Christian cult in Kenya is due to appear in court next week, as the exhumation of bodies found in mass graves on his land continues. At least 90 have been discovered so far. Pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie has said he closed…
Text by : NEWS WIRES An attack on a military detachment in east Burkina Faso on Thursday left 33 soldiers dead and 12 injured, the military-led government said, the latest bout of violence in a country locked in fighting against a jihadist insurgency. The attack on Thursday morning targeted the military detachment of Ougarou, in Burkina Faso‘s Est Region.…
Text by : NEWS WIRES | Video by : Emerald MAXWELL Sudan’s two warring factions said on Thursday they would prolong a ceasefire agreement by 72 hours, but violence again rocked the capital Khartoum and the western region of Darfur as the US said ceasefire violations were worrying. Hundreds have died and tens of thousands…