Wed 06 March 2021: A founding member of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Hawk Newsome, said he is appalled by the lack of coverage of the Yemeni Houthis’ crimes against Ethiopian immigrants in Sanaa in early March. In an interview with the English-language Arab News, Newsome said he is shocked but not at all surprised […]
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Tue 05 March 2021: France must compensate the victims of landmines planted by its forces during the colonial era, head of the Algerian National Human Rights Council (CNHD), Bouzid Lazhari, has said, adding that French authorities laid more than nine million mines along Algeria’s eastern and western borders, which caused permanent disabilities for 7,300 Algerians. […]
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Tue 06 March 2021: Media houses in Tanzania that had been closed, banned or denied licenses to operate by the former government will now be allowed to reopen, the county’s president announced on Tuesday. In a move hailed as a positive future for press freedom in Tanzania, President Samia Suluhu ordered the Information Ministry to […]
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Tue 06 April 2021: Sudan’s cabinet approved Tuesday a bill to abolish a 1958 law boycotting Israel, after Khartoum and the Jewish state struck a deal to normalise ties. “The Council of Ministers has approved a bill (repealing the 1958 boycott of Israel law) for the year 2021,” the cabinet said in a statement. The […]
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Tue 06 April 2021: Government has deployed support to the South African High Commission for the repatriation of its citizens trapped in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, amid concerns over the security situation in that region. The repatriation efforts, which were communicated in a statement at the weekend, are specifically for South Africans who wish […]
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Tue 06 April 2021: The price of petrol is set to increase by between R1 and 95 cents a litre as of Wednesday, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) said. The price of 95 (ULP and LRP) will rise by R1 while the price of 93 (ULP and LRP) will rise by 95 […]
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Tue 06 April 2021: China reported an outbreak of African swine fever in Xinjiang region, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. The outbreak occurred on a farm of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps with 599 pigs. Thirty-three pigs were infected and six died, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement. It […]
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Mon 05 April 2021: Libyan authorities on Monday found two new mass graves in the city of Tarhuna, northeast of the capital Tripoli, Anadolu reports. A statement by the General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons said the two graves were discovered in Mashru’a Alrabet area in Tarhuna, a former stronghold of eastern warlord Khalifa […]
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Mon 05 March 2021: Mozambique’s gas-rich town of Palma has been destroyed and residents cannot return to normal life, Julia Wachave, a member of women’s rights group Muleide, told Sputnik on Monday. On Friday, Pemba police chief told Sputnik that the militants had left the town and it has returned under the control of the country’s armed forces. He claimed that the government believed […]
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Mon 05 April 2021: Algerian police said on Sunday they had launched an investigation after videos on social media claiming officers sexually abused a teenage boy arrested during anti-government protests sparked fury. The 15-year-old was arrested on Saturday in Algiers, the capital of the North African country, where a long-running pro-democracy protest movement known as […]
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