US eases economic sanctions on Sudan – The Guardian The US government has eased sanctions against Sudan in a major step towards normalizing relations with a designated terrorism sponsor whose leader has been indicted on war crimes charges. The move is a milestone in the rehabilitation of a state which earned international opprobrium for its generous hospitality towards violent… Read more »
By NDI Eugene NDI Cameroon’s anglophone crisis reached a new low last week, when 17 people were shot dead by security forces and 50 wounded, according to Amnesty International, but local media put the death toll at more than 20. Protesters had gathered in towns across the country’s two English-speaking regions to mark a symbolic declaration of independence, and were… Read more »
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/37-people-killed-election-violence-171009081058361.html At least 37 people, including three children, were killed in the protests that followed the announcement of the elections result in Kenya, a local human rights group said. Some of the deaths were caused by “police using live bullets” while others were killed by police “bludgeoning using clubs”, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights said in a report on Monday…. Read more »
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41576869 Thousands of primary school teachers in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state are to be sacked after failing the exams they set for their six-year-old pupils. State governor Nasir El-Rufai said 21,780 teachers, two-thirds of the total, had failed to score 75% or higher on assessments given to pupils. He said 25,000 new teachers would be recruited to replace them…. Read more »
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41572128 Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October’s election re-run. Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election. The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll, which saw Uhuru Kenyatta declared winner, after finding irregularities. But Mr Kenyatta… Read more »
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report detailing unlawful detention and torture in Rwanda. The 91-page report – We Will Force You to Confess: Torture and Unlawful Military Detention in Rwanda – alleges details widespread and systematic torture by the military and accuses judges of being complicit in the creation of a culture of impunity for the armed forces. Victims were beaten until they… Read more »
Police patrolled empty streets in Cameroon’s restive anglophone belt as a separatist group made a symbolic proclamation of independence on Sunday, a day after a young man was shot dead by security forces. In Buea, the main city in the English-speaking southwest, the streets were mostly deserted as security forces patrolled the streets including the area where the separatists were… Read more »
The Guardian – Liberia goes to polls to find successor to Africa’s first female president At midnight on Sunday, as Liberia prepared to vote for the successor to Africa’s first female president, a rebel warlord arrived at his Monrovia residence, where a pair of menacing cement lions greeted him. Prince Johnson, the former rebel leader who ordered the murder of… Read more »
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