Coastal regions of Kenya and Tanzania were buffeted by heavy rains and high winds from a tropical cyclone on Saturday, adding to the chaos caused by deadly floods that have ravaged the region.More than 400 people have lost their lives across East Africa and tens of thousands have been uprooted from their homes in recent …

Flood-hit Kenya and Tanzania buffeted by tropical cycloneSat, 04 May 2024 09:39:40 GMT Read More »

French prosecutors said Saturday they were investigating oil giant TotalEnergies for possible involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 2021 jihadist attack in Mozambique that killed hundreds.The probe follows a legal complaint brought by victims’ families and attack survivors, accusing the French energy company, which was developing a major liquefied gas project in the region, of …

France probes TotalEnergies over 2021 Mozambique attackSat, 04 May 2024 09:31:49 GMT Read More »

Kenya and Tanzania were on alert on Saturday for a cyclone heading towards their Indian Ocean coastlines, threatening to pile on more misery after deadly floods that have ravaged the region.About 400 people have lost their lives in East Africa and tens of thousands have been uprooted from their homes in recent weeks as torrential …

Flood-hit Kenya and Tanzania on alert as cyclone nearsSat, 04 May 2024 06:57:00 GMT Read More »

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s war-torn east on Friday handed a death sentence to eight soldiers, including five officers, for desertion and cowardice when fighting M23 rebels.Prosecutors had sought the death penalty against 11 soldiers on trial in the same case, but the Goma court acquitted three of them, ruling that …

Eight DR Congo troops handed desertion death sentenceFri, 03 May 2024 18:58:19 GMT Read More »

The UK government has told the High Court in London that it expects the first deportation flights to Rwanda to take off between July 1 and July 15, a judge said on Friday.Judge Martin Chamberlain disclosed the dates as he set a hearing for a forthcoming legal challenge to the controversial policy by the FDA …

UK pencils in early July for first Rwanda deportationsFri, 03 May 2024 16:34:44 GMT Read More »

About 1,000 refugees have fled a UN-run camp in northern Ethiopia after reports of armed robbery, shootings and alleged abductions, the United Nations said on Friday.The UN’s refugee agency UNHCR said the refugees, from war-torn Sudan and also Eritrea, left the Awlala settlement in the Amhara region earlier this week “primarily because they did not …

1,000 refugees flee Ethiopia camp over security: UNFri, 03 May 2024 16:20:04 GMT Read More »

Blasts killed at least nine people Friday in a displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Goma in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local sources said.”Bombs” fell on huts housing displaced people, according to witnesses, in the central African country’s eastern region, which has seen ongoing fighting between M23 (March 23 movement) rebels …

Blasts kill nine in camp for displaced in east DR CongoFri, 03 May 2024 13:37:41 GMT Read More »

Kenyan President William Ruto put the flood-ravaged country on high alert on Friday and postponed the reopening of schools indefinitely as the nation braced for its first-ever cyclone. Torrential rains have lashed East Africa since March and claimed the lives of more than 350 people.The region is now threatened by a cyclone projected to make landfall at …

Kenya on alert as it braces for first-ever cycloneFri, 03 May 2024 13:31:12 GMT Read More »

Tunisian journalists and opposition figures have voiced alarm about a surge of prosecutions since President Kais Saied issued a decree outlawing what authorities deem to be “false news”.Rights groups and lawyers say the measure stifles dissent in the North African country that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring protests and for years after was …

Tunisian Decree 54 on ‘false news’ stifles dissent: rights groupsFri, 03 May 2024 13:12:02 GMT Read More »

The death toll from flood-related incidents in Kenya has crossed 200 since March, the interior ministry said Friday, as a cyclone barrelled towards the Tanzanian coast.Torrential rains have lashed East Africa, triggering flooding and landslides that has destroyed crops, swallowed homes, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Some 210 people have died in Kenya “due …

Kenya floods death toll tops 200 as cyclone approachesFri, 03 May 2024 10:34:27 GMT Read More »