In the six months to April 2020, at least 296 people were killed, 151 wounded and 38 raped, including women and children, mostly by fighters linked to the CODECO rebel group, said a report by the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO).
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Chairman of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat sa reaffirmed “the African Union’s rejection of the continuing discriminatory practices against Black citizens of the United States of America.”
In this special report, News Central’s Political Editor Sumner Shagari Sambo reports that most Africans believe that the United States recent actions against WHO’s Tedros Ghebreyesus and African Development Bank, AfDB’s Akinwumi Adesina were a payback for the continent’s ongoing romance with China.
The 441 Malawians were bussed home on Monday from South Africa, where they were left stranded after the country closed its borders in March to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Government prosecutors handed the high-profile investigation over to the military after announcing on Wednesday they found no evidence that a dozen men found dead in jail cells were shot.
Algeria’s interior ministry said films including two broadcast on Tuesday, while “seemingly spontaneous and under the pretext of freedom of expression, are in fact attacks on the Algerian people and its institutions” including the army.
“Since 1994, Felicien Kabuga, known to have been the financier of Rwanda genocide, had with impunity stayed in Germany, Belgium, Congo-Kinshasa, Kenya, or Switzerland,” a French justice ministry statement said.
WHO said on Monday it had temporarily suspended clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for coronavirus.
“Hunger has no colour, but unfortunately the government of South Africa has discriminated against us on the basis of our country of origin”, said Amir Sheikh, head of the African Diaspora Forum.
Home Affairs Minister, Stephen Kampyongo said among the pardoned under the President’s prerogative of mercy, 155 are females while 2, 829 are males.