October 29, 2018//-In the wake of the recent fight between the rebel fighters and the government forces in Anjouan, Comoros, and the arrest of a string of leaders of Opposition, the European Union (EU) has decided to withhold the activation of the 2018 annual action program for Comoros.
October 29, 2018//-The academic qualifications of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari are again making headlines because the 76-year-old is seeking re-election in February, 2019.
Geneva, Switzerland, October 26, 2018/ — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday warned that the mass deportation of Congolese nationals from Angola has already resulted in serious human rights violations by security forces on both sides of the border, and left at least 330,000 returnees in an extremely precarious situation.
Geneva, Switzerland, October 16, 2018/ — Congolese nationals forced back across the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after being expelled from neighbouring Angola, “are returning to a desperate situation,” a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Geneva, Switzerland, October 16, 2018/ UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is concerned by a fast-developing humanitarian situation in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) sparked by mass returns from Angola over the last two weeks.
Geneva, Switzerland, October 11, 2018//-The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday he is “deeply saddened”, as the Government of Nigeria announced that some 200 people have died, and a further 1,310 injured, due to flooding across a dozen states.
Harare, Zimbabwe, October 11, 2018/ — Major General Trust Magoba – who now serves as a special advisor to the African Union office for Peace and Security – has raised concern at foreign interference on the continent.
October 10, 2018//-At least 50 people have been killed after a bus travelling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu, in the west, veered off the road, police say.
Bangui, Central African Republic, October 9, 2018/ — UNAIDS has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of National Defence and Reconstruction of the Army, the Ministry of Health and Population and the National AIDS Committee of the Central African Republic (CAR).
Cameroonian President Paul Biya votes in the presidential elections in the capital Yaounde. He has been in power for 36 years. EFE/EPA/Nic Bothma Cheryl Hendricks, Human Sciences Research Council and Gabriel Ngah Kiven, University of Johannesburg October 8, 2018//-The official results of Cameroon’s October 7, 2018 presidential election are due in two weeks. But they’re […]
