SOMALI ARMY SAYS IT KILLED OVER 40 AL-SHABAAB INSURGENTS IN OPERATION

  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, […]

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CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 12 ARE RAPED AND ASSAULTED IN SUDAN

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, […]

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MULTIPLE TRUCKS SET ALIGHT ON N3 CORRIDOR BETWEEN GAUTENG AND KZN: CLEAN-UP, RECOVERY UNDER WAY

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 […]

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‘PEOPLE ARE DYING’: SOUTH AFRICA WORKERS PROTEST ECONOMIC WOES

  Members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, South Africa’s biggest trade union group, and other labour unions, take part in a nationwide protest against the high cost of living and rising unemployment, in Cape Town, South Africa, July 6, 2023 Sat 08 July 2023: Africa’s most industrialised nation is facing rolling electricity […]

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH URGES TUNISIA TO SUSPEND EXPULSIONS OF AFRICAN MIGRANTS

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 […]

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UNIVERSITIES IN ALGERIA WILL SWITCH FROM FRENCH TO ENGLISH

Thu 06 July 2023: In the latest sign that the French language and influence is on the decline in former North African colony, Algeria, the authorities are reportedly set to replace French with English at Algerian universities, starting with the new academic year in September. According to Asharq Al-Awsat, on 1 July the Ministry of Higher Education’s Secretary-General sent a […]

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