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 …
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 »
As night falls, a handful of South African soldiers slouch under a tent near a crocodile-infested pond off the largely dry Limpopo River separating their country from Zimbabwe.They are tasked with patrolling kilometres of wild terrain for smugglers ferrying across cigarettes, stolen cars and most of all people. Struggling in the polls ahead of the most …
Mauritania’s Islamist opposition party on Thursday said its leader would be standing in the presidential election scheduled for June 29, the first time it has fielded a candidate for the post in 15 years.Hamadi Ould Sid’ El Moctar will represent the National Rally for Reform and Development, also known as Tewassoul, which was legalised in …
Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order marking a major step towards the creation of a long-awaited war crimes court, more than two decades after the end of devastating civil conflict.An estimated 250,000 people died during the West African nation’s two civil wars between 1989 and 2003, which were notorious for their …
Liberia’s Boakai creates office of war crimes courtThu, 02 May 2024 19:04:21 GMT Read More »
Kenya and Tanzania were bracing Thursday for a cyclone on the heels of torrential rains that have devastated East Africa, killing more than 350 people and forcing tens of thousands from their homes.In addition to claiming 188 lives in Kenya since March, the floods have displaced 165,000 people, with 90 reported missing, the interior ministry …
Kenya, Tanzania brace for cyclone as heavy rains persistThu, 02 May 2024 19:02:55 GMT Read More »
