MASERU (Reuters) – Lesotho’s high court will rule on whether Prime Minister Thomas Thabane can claim immunity from a charge he murdered his wife prior to marrying his present spouse, a lower court decided on Monday, in a case gripping the tiny southern African kingdom. Thabane, 80, appeared in court in the capital Maseru in a pre-trail hearing on Monday… Read more »
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The Burundi government said on Tuesday it had killed at least 22 “wrongdoers” in the hills overlooking the main city Bujumbura since last week, in what it described as violence linked to a presidential election scheduled for May. The authorities said two members of the police force were killed and six attackers were captured. The clashes erupted… Read more »
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Student Hilda Flavia Nakabuye is at the forefront of Uganda’s Fridays for Future strikes – but it was years until the 22-year-old realized her own family were victims of climate change. Storms and drought forced Nakabuye’s family to sell their livestock and almost all their land a decade ago, and she was forced out of… Read more »
DAKAR/LONDON (Reuters) – An isolation ward stands ready at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. Laboratories in Senegal and Madagascar have the testing equipment they need. Passengers arriving at airports in Gambia, Cameroon and Guinea are being screened for fever and other viral symptoms. Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says it has activated its emergency operation centre in the… Read more »