Sudanese refugees burn down their camp in Niger
Sudanese seeking shelter in Niger have staged a sit-in outside the offices of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees insisting they be moved to Europe. They burned their camp to which the authorities were trying to force them to return. It is reminiscent of what happened in Pretoria and Cape Town last year. Thousands […]
Mali embarrassment at Presidential tweet attacking Donald Trump
Mali’s presidency has dismissed as an unfortunate mistake an expletive-laden attack on US President Donald Trump under the handle of the West African state’s leader. It accuses the US leader of threatening world peace and turning his country into a rogue state. Spokesman for Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita says leader’s twitter handle was temporarily […]
Deported Kenyan lawyer barred from taking a flight home
Dissident Kenyan lawyer Miguna Miguna has been barred from flying home despite the Nairobi government’s assurance that it will comply with a court order allowing him to do so. Miguna was deported in 2018 after presiding at an unofficial swearing in ceremony for Raila Odinga who claimed to have beaten President Raila Odinga in a […]
Measles epidemic in DRC has killed more than 6 000
More than 6000 children have died from the measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. That’s twice as many fatalities from this easily treatable virus as those from the far more deadly EBOLA outbreak in the Central African Country. The World Health Organization is calling the DRC outbreak the largest and fastest moving measles […]