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Gambian lawmakers on Monday upheld a 2015 ban on female genital mutilation despite pressure from religious traditionalists in the West African country, rejecting a controversial bill seeking to overturn the law after months of heated debate.International rights groups and the United Nations had urged MPs to reject the bill, saying it threatened years of progress …

Gambia MPs uphold ban on female genital mutilationTue, 16 Jul 2024 00:27:18 GMT Read More »

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has scored a crushing election victory that will extend his iron-fisted rule by another five years, according to partial results issued Monday.De facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000, Kagame scored 99.15 percent of the vote, the National Election Commission announced after 79 percent of …

Rwanda’s Kagame cruises to crushing election victoryMon, 15 Jul 2024 21:55:44 GMT Read More »

Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday accused the US-based Ford Foundation of sponsoring “anarchy” and funding anti-government protests that descended into deadly mayhem last month.The East African powerhouse has been plunged into political chaos over the demonstrations, which started out as peaceful rallies led by Gen-Z Kenyans against proposed tax hikes but have spiralled into …

Kenya’s Ruto accuses Ford Foundation of backing protestsMon, 15 Jul 2024 14:59:50 GMT Read More »

Kenyan police said they arrested on Monday a suspected serial killer who confessed to murdering 42 women, including his wife, and discarding their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish dump.Since Friday, nine butchered bodies trussed up in plastic bags have been hauled from the site of an abandoned quarry in the Mukuru slum, a gruesome …

Kenya suspect in dumped bodies case ‘confesses to 42 murders’Mon, 15 Jul 2024 14:47:06 GMT Read More »

The death toll from a car bombing at a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu that was packed with football fans watching the Euro 2024 final has risen to nine, security sources said Monday.Witnesses described scenes of panic and chaos after the powerful blast late Sunday, with people scrambling for safety and the main entrance to …

Somalia cafe attack kills nine during Euro finalMon, 15 Jul 2024 14:43:00 GMT Read More »

Counting began in Rwanda’s presidential and parliamentary elections on Monday, with the African nation’s leader Paul Kagame assured of victory in his bid to extend his iron-fisted rule for another five years. Rwanda’s de facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000, Kagame faces only two challengers after several prominent critics were …

Rwanda votes as Kagame set to extend ruleMon, 15 Jul 2024 14:34:06 GMT Read More »

Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation.Gambia in 2015 banned the ritual forced on millions of girls in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, but it remains widespread.Here are some key facts about an ancient practice which is based …

Female genital mutilation: entrenched ritual with devastating effectsMon, 15 Jul 2024 13:21:37 GMT Read More »

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa reaffirmed Monday the coal-dependent nation’s commitment to moving towards renewable energy but insisted that communities and workers must not lose out.Africa’s most industrialised economy is one of the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitters, relying on coal for 80 percent of electricity generation. The fossil fuel is a bedrock of the economy, …

Don’t leave workers behind in green transition: SAfrica presidentMon, 15 Jul 2024 10:50:55 GMT Read More »

Kenyan police said Monday they had arrested a “serial killer” suspect who had confessed to murdering 42 women before dumping their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish tip.Since Friday, a total of nine mutilated and dismembered bodies trussed in plastic bags have been pulled from the garbage site in the Mukuru slum area in the …

Kenya police say suspect in dumped bodies case confessed to 42 murdersMon, 15 Jul 2024 09:51:14 GMT Read More »

The death toll from a blast at a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has climbed to nine, security sources told AFP Monday, after a car bomb struck the venue packed with football fans watching the Euro 2024 final.”Nine civilians were killed and 20 others wounded in the explosion,” Mohamed Yusuf, an official from the national …

Somalia cafe attack toll climbs to nine: security sourcesMon, 15 Jul 2024 06:11:32 GMT Read More »