Human rights activists in Uganda have called for the establishment of an independent inquiry into the killing of scores of people by the country’s security forces in a western town two years ago. On November 26 and 27, 2016, security forces killed 103 people after storming the palace of King Charles Wesley Mumbere, a tribal leader of the Bakonzo people,… Read more »
Zimbabwean doctors at public hospitals went on a strike for the second time this year to demand better pay and conditions, a union official said, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government struggles with a deteriorating economy. The southern African nation is short of US dollars, the currency it adopted in 2009, causing price spikes and shortages of basic goods, medicines and fuel…. Read more »
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Six people have been arrested after a teenage boy died in an adulthood initiation ritual that went wrong in Kenya.
CNN)At least 35 people died in a boat accident on Lake Victoria in Uganda on Saturday, according to the Ugandan Police Force.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)A Nigerian court has denied bail to university professor Richard Akindele, charged with four counts of corruption after allegedly demanding sex from a female student.
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is now the second biggest in history, with 426 confirmed and probable cases, the health ministry said late on Thursday. The epidemic in a volatile part of Democratic Republic of Congo is now only surpassed by the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa, where more than 28,000 cases where confirmed, and is… Read more »
JUBA (Reuters) – Unknown gunmen have raped 125 women during a 10-day spree of violence in the northern town of Bentiu in South Sudan, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday, but local officials disputed the report. South Sudan has suffered a wrenching five-year civil war and, despite a fragile peace accord signed two months ago by… Read more »
A prominent critic of veteran Rwandan president Paul Kagame has been acquitted by Rwanda’s high court of charges that included inciting insurrection and forging of documents. Diane Rwigara, a 37-year-old activist and accountant has repeatedly accused Kagame of stifling dissent and criticised his Rwandan Patriotic Front’s unyielding grip on power since it assumed control after ending the country’s 1994 genocide.
Sudanese MPs have backed a move to amend the constitution to allow President Omar al-Bashir to run for a third term in 2020 elections. Unless the constitution is changed, Mr Bashir, who came to power in a coup in 1989, will not be allowed to stand again – as a two-term limit was introduced in 2005. Parliament speaker Ibrahim Ahmed… Read more »
The sexual attacks and beatings in South Sudan over the last 12 days have targeted women walking to collect food to take home to their families. Groups of men numbering up to 20 have been accused of the assaults. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Saturday that it had given emergency medical and psychological help to 157 women and girls… Read more »