Faith Nyasuguta A Ugandan man, 20, has become the first person in the country to be prosecuted on charges of “aggravated homosexuality,” a criminal offense carrying the possibility of capital punishment as per the recently enacted anti-gay legislation, according to both prosecutors and the defendant’s legal counsel. Uganda introduced one of earth’s strictest statutes against […]
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Faith Nyasuguta During a major foreign policy speech to ambassadors gathered in Paris on Monday, France President Macron confirmed that French envoy Sylvain Itte was listening in from Niger capital Niamey despite being given a 48-hour deadline to leave the nation last Friday. “France and its diplomats have faced particularly difficult situations in some countries […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Zimbabwe’s deputy president Constantino Chiwenga has revealed that the country wants to join the expanded BRICS Plus group. This comes after the bloc of emerging economies announced six new members to its cluster. The nations include Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Their memberships will take full effect […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new report has revealed that both Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers continue a widespread and systematic campaign of rape in Tigray despite the peace de signed in November last year. In the first report documenting sexual violence – using hundreds of medical records from the start of the conflict in November 2020 through […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Over 1 million people have fled Sudan to neighboring states while people inside the nation are running out of food and dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war, the United Nations has cautioned. Violence between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated the capital […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, West African military leaders convened in Ghana with the objective of coordinating a potential armed intervention to counteract the coup in Niger. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) acknowledged the need to activate a “standby force to restore constitutional order” in Niger, given the growing concerns. In response to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Dmytro Kouleba, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy has announced a “long-term” fight to “revive” Kiev’s relations with Africa and reduce the “grip” of Moscow on the continent based, according to him , on “coercion, corruption and fear”. After decades of oblivion, Kiev has launched an operation of seduction in Africa in a bid […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Action is needed now to pave the way for timely and credible elections in South Sudan in December 2024, the UN Special Representative for the nation has said. “With only 17 months remaining on the Roadmap timelines before elections in 2024, I repeat what I had said in an earlier press conference, that […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Next week, BRICS leaders will be meeting in South Africa to discuss how to turn a loose club of nations accounting for a quarter of earth’s economy into a geopolitical force that can challenge the West’s dominance in global affairs. Currently facing an international arrest warrant over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, Russian […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The last four months of fighting in Sudan have pushed millions into food insecurity – with an additional 1.5 million children expected to fall into crisis levels of hunger by September – as aid agencies say they are struggling to reach people. On the daily, up to 17,000 children have been falling into […]
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