Gunfire was heard early on Monday in Ivory Coast’s two main cities, according to witnesses, as the military pressed an operation aimed at ending a mutiny by soldiers demanding bonus payments. In the commercial capital of Abidjan, shots were heard from two military camps in the east of the city, a nearby resident told the […]
Doctors in the South African city of Durban say the health system is failing patients because of corruption and state negligence. They say cancer patients, in particular, are dying because they are not getting the treatment they need in the city’s hospitals. Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall reports from Durban. The post South Africa: Health system’s […]
Ivory Coast has launched a military operation “to re-establish order” after soldiers who staged a three-day mutiny over bonus payments refused the army’s demand to disarm. The mutineers, most of them former rebel fighters who fought to bring President Alassane Ouattara to power, have sealed off Ivory Coast’s second-largest city, Bouake, and used gunfire to break […]
More than 2,000 Tunisians marched in the country’s capital protesting a proposed amnesty bill that would see businessmen accused of corruption under ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali walk free. At the demonstration against the Economic Reconcilliation bill on Saturday, the protesters claimed the bill would contradict the spirit of Tunisia’s 2011 revolution that ousted […]
Mutinying soldiers sealed off access to Ivory Coast’s second largest city of Bouake on Saturday, soldiers and residents said, as protests over a pay dispute with the government continued despite warnings of harsh punishments. The unrest began in Bouake on Thursday before quickly spreading, following a pattern similar to a mutiny in January by the […]
Boko Haram released a video late on Friday claiming to show the Chibok schoolgirls who refused to be rescued as part of a recent swap deal with the Nigerian government. In the three-minute video, a woman who claims to be Maida Yakubu, one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014, […]
An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after one person who died of hemorrhagic fever tested positive for the virus. Two others may have also died from the disease. The case was confirmed following tests on nine people who came down with hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province, in the northeast […]
Ugandan rights activists say grisly images of the torture of a detained politician showing septic wounds on his body highlight escalating brutality and impunity by the country’s security personnel. Pictures began circulating online and in local media on Thursday of Geoffrey Byamukama, mayor of a small town in western Uganda, lying on a hospital bed […]
Gunfire has erupted in several cities across the Ivory Coast, including the military headquarters in the commercial capital Abidjan, as anger spread following a decision by some leaders of a group of mutineers to drop demands for bonuses. The protests on Friday by soldiers, most of them ex-rebel fighters who helped bring President Alassane Ouattara […]
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