Sat 10 October 2020: The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced on Friday that more than 600 African migrants arrived in Yemen last September. This came in a report released by the IOM, of which Anadolu Agency obtained a copy, on the number of migrants entering Yemen during the past month. The IOM stated that 83 per […]
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Sat 10 October 2020: Facebook is launching a three-month “Season of Support” initiative for small businesses — starting with a campaign to highlight Black-owned businesses, which are closing twice as fast as others during the pandemic. Black-owned businesses are shutting their doors two times the rate of small businesses since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in […]
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Sat 10 October 2020: Algerian security forces have arrested thousands of migrants and refugees, cramming them onto trucks and buses before expelling them across the border to Niger, Human Rights Watch said. “Since early September, Algeria has expelled over 3,400 migrants of at least 20 nationalities to Niger, including 430 children and 240 women,” the […]
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Fri 09 October 2020: The European Union on Thursday donated 900,000 COVID-19 testing kits to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, a public health agency. EU Commissioner for External Affairs Josep Borrell and Kwesi Quartey, deputy chairperson at the African Union, attended the handover ceremony at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, […]
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Thu 08 October 2020: Turkey does not see African countries as markets for Turkish goods, seeks win-win cooperation, says president Turkey is proud to have contributed to African countries in their fight against the novel corona virus with Turkish-made respirators, masks and overalls, the country’s president said on Thursday. “The peoples of Africa were unfortunately […]
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Thu 08 October 2020: Security forces have also committed crimes including torture and extrajudicial killings, says Amnesty International Three years on, the victims of fighting in Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, which has left over 2,000 people killed, “are no closer to justice, truth and reparation,” Amnesty International said Wednesday. Mozambique’s authorities “have failed […]
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Wed 07 October 2020: A court in Kenya on Wednesday found two men guilty of helping al-Shabaab militants in a 2013 attack on a Nairobi shopping mall. At least 67 people were killed in the assault on the Westgate shopping complex by the Somalia-based group linked to al-Qaeda. A third suspect, who also faced charges […]
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Wed 07 October 2020: Authorities have yet to show genuine commitment to ending lawless activities of unit, says human rights organization Nigeria has failed to tackle the impunity enjoyed by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), whose brutality and corruption is “becoming increasingly brazen,” human rights organization Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report. “Last weekend, […]
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Tue 06 October 2020: Country has highest number of cases in Africa, is 10th most affected globally South Africa recorded 40 new COVID-19 related deaths late Monday, bringing the total number fatalities nationwide to 17,016, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced. Mkhize extended his condolences to the loved ones of those who passed on and thanked […]
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Tue 06 October 2020: The Malian prime minister has announced a 25-member Cabinet, with members of the military junta that seized power in August getting key posts, state broadcaster ORTM reported late Monday. Interim president Bah Ndaw appointed former foreign minster Moctar Ouane, 64, as premier late last month, following pressure from the Economic Community […]
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