Monthly Archives: August 2020
Congolese Nobel Peace laureate Mukwege faces death threats
CONGO
The United Nations human rights chief is calling for a quick investigation into death threats against Congolese Nobel...
South Africa ends ban on cigarettes, but smuggling may stay
SOUTH AFRICA
Cigarette smuggling boomed in South Africa during its nearly five-month ban on legal sales as part of...
‘Our hands are tied’: Local aid workers exposed in pandemic
SOUTH AFRICA
The coronavirus is exposing an uncomfortable inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid for...
Black man shot in the back seven times by Wisconsin police
UNITED KINGDOM
A black man is in a serious condition after being shot seven times at close range by...
Burkina Faso army blamed for extrajudicial torture, deaths
BURKINA FASO
Huddled on the floor in a dimly lit room, one by one the five men displayed wounds...
Offices of Mozambican newspaper burned in arson attack
MOZAMBIQUE
The premises of two of Mozambique’s leading independent newspapers, the weekly Canal de Mozambique and the daily CanalMoz,...
Mali junta wants to hold off on elections until 2023
MALI
The military junta that overthrew Mali’s president wants to put off new elections for three years, an official...
West Africa envoys go to Mali to meet with junta after coup
MALI
Top West African officials were in Mali’s capital on Saturday to meet with junta leaders and the country’s...
We are surprise Military can do this – Nigeria’s Southern Kaduna IDPs
NIGERIA
The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), who were displaced as a result of the crisis that recently bedeviled Nigeria’s...
A look at how Mali’s coup may affect neighboring countries
MALI
African and Western leaders have condemned the junta that forced Mali’s president from power, warning the coup was...