A panel set up by Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission has recommended the dismissal and prosecution of a number of police officers for torture, extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions. The committee, set up in the wake of mass street protests against police brutality in 2020, has not said how many officers it wants to be…
Almost eight million people face extreme hunger in Somalia and more than 213,000 are at “imminent risk of dying” after four failed rainy seasons, according to the UN. So it should be a relief that after a slow start, over 70% of the UN’s $1.46bn fundraising target for aid has now been reached. One major humanitarian organisation…
Yegueni Prigozhin, a businessman close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, admitted on Monday that in 2014 he created the Wagner Group, a private military company, which is forbidden by law in Russia, and which is also present in the military campaign in Ukraine. “In 2014, when the genocide of the Russian population of the Dombash…
Independent Democratic Action (ADI, opposition), led by former Prime Minister Patrice Trovoada, won Sunday’s legislative elections in Sao Tome and Principe, with a total of 36,549 votes, according to preliminary data released today by the National Electoral Commission (CEN). The provisional figures for the legislative elections were presented tonight at the CEN headquarters in the…
The rand has weakened by one percent in Asian trade on Monday morning, trading at R18.05 to the dollar, after having weakened by two percent on Friday. This is mainly due to a dollar that continues to strengthen on the back of interest rate hikes in the United States, which cause treasury yields in the…
An advocacy organisation, the Wise Collective, has warned that the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to decline to prosecute Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana for sexual assault, will jeopardise the country’s fight against gender-based violence. Last week, the Director of Public Prosecutions in Mpumalanga, Nkebe Kanyane, confirmed the NPA’s decision. It relates to an alleged case of sexual assault…
Civic organisation, Action Society South Africa, says police lack the will to tackle organised crime. This as South Africa is ranked 19th in the world for the penetration of organised crime, according to the recently released Global Organised Crime Index. It has revealed that major corruption is associated with the movement of foreign nationals, predominantly…
Twenty years ago today, the coastal ferry Joola capsized off the coast of Senegal, drowning nearly 2,000 passengers. The Senegalese town where half of the dead lived will on Monday hold commemorations for a “wound that never heals”. The Joola shipwreck was the world’s worstst civil maritime disaster. The vessel sank drowning more victims than perished on board…
A suicide attack claimed by the Somali Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab killed at least seven people and injured nine others in Mogadishu on Sunday, the army and eyewitnesses told AFP. A “desperate terrorist” blew himself up on Sunday morning near a line of new recruits who were enrolling at the Nacnac military base in the…
By DAILY MONITOR The death toll from Ebola in Uganda has risen to four, while the number of confirmed Ebola cases rose to 16, data from the Ministry of Health indicates. Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyoona said that apart from the four confirmed deaths, 17 other fatalities are probable cases of Ebola infection. He added that the number of…