Between 10 and 21 civilians were killed in two attacks by a notorious ADF militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where government forces have vowed to root out armed groups, sources said Wednesday. Seven people were killed in the city of Beni and between three and 14 were killed near Oicha, 30 kilometres (18 miles) away, according to the UN radio Okapi, which quoted the military, and local civil society. The attacks late Tuesday were blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a militia of Ugandan origin targeted by an army campaign to restore peace to DR Congo’s troubled…
Author: Nelly Kalu
Nelly Kalu
Features Anchor, News Central
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A Gambian former beauty queen on Thursday accused former President Yahya Jammeh of raping her to punish her for rejecting his marriage proposal, in evidence to the country’s truth and reconciliation commission. “What he wanted to do was to teach me a lesson, what he wanted to do is manifest his ego,” Fatou Jallow said. “There were words like ‘who do you think you are?’, that he is the president and that he gets any woman that he wants,” Jallow told Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). Jammeh fled the country in January 2017 after losing presidential elections and…
Members of Portugal’s new parliament took up office on Friday, among them the country’s first black women lawmakers who campaigned on promises to fight racism and inequality. The three women, who all trace their origins to Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony in West Africa, won office in the October 6 general election when Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s Socialists were re-elected but without an absolute majority. A total of 89 women were elected — an unprecedented number in the 230-seat parliament — following a new gender parity law requiring that 40 per cent of elected lawmakers are female. Portugal has a…
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