Views: 7 ALARABIYA Amnesty International called on the United Nations Thursday to extend the arms embargo on Darfur to cover all of Sudan, in a report on weapons flooding the war-torn country. The 15-month war between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces “is being fueled by an almost unimpeded supply of weapons […]
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Views: 4 TIMES LIVE Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a six-decade-old law criminalising gay sex as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to introduce even harsher penalties in a new bill. The seven-member panel dismissed a lawsuit challenging the law, with presiding Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie saying reasons for the decision
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Views: 3 At least 15 people have died and more than 150 are missing after a boat carrying 300 passengers capsized near Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. “Approximately 300 people boarded a pirogue in The Gambia and spent seven days at sea before the boat capsized near Nouakchott on July
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Views: 5 BBC Namibian Michelle Nehoya has spent nearly $500 (£390) on an application for a visa to visit Canada – but more than two years later it has yet to materialise. The 38-year-old, who lives in Namibia’s capital, Windhoek, is desperate to get to Quebec to see her aunt and cousins whom she has
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Views: 4 Dr. Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya has been dismissed as Minister of Public Service and Labour (MIFOTRA) due to accountability issues under investigation. The Prime Minister announced on Thursday morning Dr Jeane D’Arc Mujawamariya would leave his Public Service docket immediately. “Today, 25th July, Dr Jeane D’Arc Mujawamariya has been dismissed from her position as
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Views: 0 Media Briefing, State House, Nairobi. https://t.co/Ppr5XfYT55 — William Samoei Ruto, PhD (@WilliamsRuto) July 24, 2024
Views: 5 AT LEAST 26 people were killed when an armed group attacked a village in central Mali near the border with Burkina Faso, according to a government official. In the latest violent attack in the conflict-torn region, the gunmen attacked villagers on Sunday evening as most of them worked on their farmlands in the
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Views: 2 NPR ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — At least 157 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, many of them as they tried to rescue survivors of an earlier mudslide, local authorities said Tuesday. Young children and pregnant women were among the victims of
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