Category: Africa

  Al-Shabab fighters sit on a truck as they patrol in Mogadishu, Somalia [File: Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP Photo]. Sun 09 July 2023: On Sunday, the elite Danab unit of the Somali National Army carried out an aerial and ground operation that resulted in the deaths of over 40 al-Shabaab insurgents, including ringleaders, Anadolu Agency reported, […]

Sun 09 July 2023: Teenage girls are being sexually assaulted and raped by armed combatants in Sudan in alarming numbers, with many survivors aged between 12 and 17 years old, Save the Children warned in a press release today. The children make up some of the cases of sexual and gender-based violence as a result of the escalating conflict, with incidents of rape, […]

Sun 09 July 2023: A gang of armed men set fire to six trucks in KwaZulu-Natal over the weekend, according to police. According to Brigadier Jay Naicker, a gang of armed men forced six truck drivers to stop their vehicles on Van Reenen’s Pass on Saturday night.  KZN police stated on Sunday that the route […]

Fri 07 July 2023: Kenyan police have used tear gas to disperse protesters, marching on Friday against a new finance law, that has doubled the fuel tax and introduced a housing levy, for employees. Opposition leader Raila Odinga has called the protests to oppose tax increases, that were imposed despite a court-ordered suspension, and came […]

Fri 07 July 2023: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Tunisia to stop its expulsion of sub-Saharan African migrants and for humanitarian services to be provided to those migrants currently languishing at the North African country’s border with Libya. The international human rights group made the statement on Thursday, after hundreds of migrants were rounded up from […]