Dozens of Burundi refugees killed in clashes with congo forces.
http://m.france24.com/en/20170916-36-burundi-refugees-killed-clashes-dr-congo-forces
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Odinga rejects Kenya election re-run date without ‘guarantees’
Kenya’s supreme court has nullified the re-election of Kenya’s current president Uhuru Kenyatta due to the fact that the votes had been tainted with irregularities. Odinga is the opposition leader who had challenged the elections outcome. Simply to show that the elections are filled with fraud and to show how they did it. The re-vote is on October 17th and… Read more »
Angola elects new president after 38 years of dos Santos rule
http://www.france24.com/en/20170823-angola-election-new-president-four-decades-dos-santos-rule
Odinga rejects Kenya election re-run date without ‘guarantees’
http://www.france24.com/en/20170905-kenya-odinga-reelection-conditions
Cameroon builds anti-terror trench to keep out Boko Haram suicide bombers
http://www.france24.com/en/20170906-focus-cameroon-nigeria-border-trench-boko-haram-suicide-bombers-attacks-children
Pentagon confirms deaths of three US soldiers in Niger
http://www.france24.com/en/20171005-usa-niger-pentagon-confirms-deaths-three-soldiers-mali
New Plague in Madagascar Sparks Panic
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/madagascar-plague-30-killed-public-panic-disease-171005101710366.html Madagascar is trying to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious plague. At least 30 people have died in the past two months, and almost 200 suspected cases have been reported. The government has banned public gatherings in the capital in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading.
Armed Forces of CAR use Sexual Violence Against Women and Children
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/sexual-violence-weapon-war-car-hrw-171005073242133.html Armed fighters in the Central African Republic (CAR) have used sexual violence to “terrorise women and children” as a tactic of war during the nearly five-year conflict, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has claimed. Fighters beat women, burned them and left them with broken bones, smashed teeth and head wounds, the New York-based rights group said in a report on Thursday, citing testimony…. Read more »
Protests Gone Violent in Nairobi
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/kenyan-police-fire-tear-gas-opposition-protesters-171002102803863.html Before a rerun presidential election, supporters of Kenya‘s opposition have called for electoral officials to be sacked and demanded the ruling party is blocked from changing voting laws. In the opposition strongholds of Kisumu and Siaya, police on Monday fired tear gas at protesters who jammed roads and burned tyres. Security forces hurled fired tear gas canisters at demonstrators in… Read more »
No Clear End to the Boko Haram
‘No end in sight’ Boko Haram was established in 2009, and the group boasts of several thousand fighters. Throughout the last year, fighting between the armed organisation and the Nigerian military has left at least 20,000 people dead and more than 2.6 million displaced in northeastern Nigeria. Last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that fighting between the government… Read more »