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Tanzanian politician’s lawyers ask UN to declare his detention arbitrary
Lawyers for Tanzania's jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations Working Group on...
Read moreDetailsDR Congo ex-president Kabila makes first public appearance in rebel-held Goma
Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila appeared for the first time in public in rebel-held territory in the country's volatile east...
Read moreDetailsSouth Africa offers to buy LNG in trade deal proposal to US
South Africa has offered to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States in a trade deal proposal that...
Read moreDetailsCongo ex-president Kabila visits rebel-held Goma for talks, associates say
Congolese former president Joseph Kabila has arrived in the rebel-held eastern city of Goma for talks with locals, three people...
Read moreDetailsSenegal indicts fifth former minister amid intensifying anti-corruption campaign
Senegal’s anti-corruption special court on Monday indicted Amadou Mansour Faye, a former minister of community development and brother-in-law of ex-president...
Read moreDetailsNigeria scraps controversial bill making voting mandatory
Following a backlash from lawyers and rights groups, Nigeria has scrapped a controversial bill that would have made voting mandatory....
Read moreDetailsEritrea wary of ‘war-mongering’ Ethiopia
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki is accusing the Ethiopian government of accumulating weapons, including technological ones, to launch a war against...
Read moreDetailsKenya backs Morocco’s autonomy plan for “Western Sahara”, joint statement says
Kenya said on Monday it supports Morocco's plan to give the disputed region of Western Sahara autonomy under the North...
Read moreDetailsSeparatists’ sit-at-home protests lead to 700 deaths in Nigeria’s southeast, report says
A sit-at-home order by banned separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra in Nigeria's southeast has led to the death of...
Read moreDetailsDR Congo ex-president Kabila lambasts justice system after vote to lift his immunity
DR Congo's former President Joseph Kabila on Friday lambasted the Central African country's justice system, a day after the senate...
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