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Burkina Faso parliament passes law outlawing LGBTQ practices
Burkina Faso's transitional parliament passed legislation outlawing conduct deemed to promote LGBTQ practices, introducing fines, prison sentences and sanctions for...
Read moreDetailsKenya exhumes 32 bodies as outcry grows over starvation cult deaths
Thirty-two bodies have been exhumed in southeastern Kenya in the past week, in a tragedy that is sparking fresh criticism...
Read moreDetailsFrance returns three colonial-era human skulls to Madagascar
France on Tuesday returned three colonial-era skulls held in a Paris museum to Madagascar 128 years after they were taken...
Read moreDetailsKenyans rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza
Hundreds of Kenyans took to the streets of Nairobi to show solidarity with Palestinians caught in the war in Gaza....
Read moreDetailsAl Qaeda-linked group says 21 soldiers killed in widescale attacks in Mali
Al Qaeda-linked militants killed 21 soldiers during coordinated attacks in Mali on Tuesday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, a...
Read moreDetailsSouth Africa slams U.S. human rights report as “deeply flawed”
South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has strongly rejected the latest U.S. Human Rights Report on South Africa,...
Read moreDetailsSouth Africa starts ‘national dialogue’ about poverty, inequality
South African is starting a “national dialogue” Friday that is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss...
Read moreDetailsAfrican Union urges adoption of world map showing continent’s true size
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator...
Read moreDetailsRwandan man accused in 1994 genocide repatriated from Norway
A Rwandan man, who was arrested in Norway for crimes he allegedly committed during the East African nation's 1994 genocide, has...
Read moreDetailsNigeria, expecting heavy rain, issues flood alert for 19 states
Nigeria's environment ministry issued a flood alert on Wednesday for 19 states, warning that heavy rainfall expected from August 5-9...
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