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Africa: TotalEnergies At 100 - a Legacy of Destruction in Africa
[African Arguments] Displacements, environmental damage, and CO2 emissions from projects in Mozambique and Uganda are just the latest chapter in a long story.
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South Africa: South Africa's Energy Crisis Is Driving a 'Solar Boom', but There's a Downside
[African Arguments] The privately-led quintupling of rooftop solar in 2 years takes some pressure off the grid but, without planning, risks deepening energy apartheid.
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Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo - Deepening Humanitarian Catastrophe in Ituri Completely Forgotten
[Norwegian Refugee Council] The humanitarian situation in Ituri province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is becoming increasingly critical, with over 1.6 million people displaced in the province at the end of 2023. The international community must stop neglecting communities in Ituri and take urgent action to support them build the foundations for a peaceful future, urges the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
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Ethiopia: Supporting GBV Survivors in Amhara to Recover and Build Resilience
[UNFPA] Amina is one of the many women who have experienced conflict-related sexual violence during the devastating two-year conflict in northern Ethiopia. For more than three years, she kept silent about her experience. Amina says she feared being stigmatized by family, friends and community members. "The burden was immense, affecting my health and relationships. My partner left me once he realized what had happened. My outlook on men has changed," Amina said.
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Liberia: French Appeal Court Finds Liberian Rebel Commander Guilty
[Cavitas Maxima] Paris -- Today, the Paris ''Cour d'assises'', composed of three judges and nine jury members, confirmed the 2022 guilty verdict and found Kunti Kamara, former Liberian ULIMO rebel commander, guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity, and commission of simple and aggravated acts of torture and barbarism. Mr Kamara was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.
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Zimbabwe: Watchdog Slams Proposed Electoral Law Reforms - Says Changes Will Further Compromise ZEC
[New Zimbabwe] THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) has expressed dismay at a motion seeking to transfer key responsibilities such as voter registration from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) back to the Registrar-General's Office.
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South Africa: Focus On Children, Urges President of SA Society of Psychiatrists
[spotlight] There are serious gaps in psychiatry regarding treatment, prevention and care for children and adolescents in South Africa. Offering solutions, Dr Anusha Lachman tells Spotlight psychiatric services should be offered in ways that are Afro-centric and culturally sensitive.
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Uganda: NARO Makes Breakthrough in the Development of Anti-Tick Vaccine
[Nile Post] The Uganda's National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) has announced it has made good strides in the development of anti-tick vaccines.
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Guinea Bissau: Son of Former Guinea-Bissau President Jailed in US for Drug Trafficking
[RFI] The son of a former president of Guinea-Bissau was sentenced to more than six and a half years in prison for involvement in a transnational heroin trafficking conspiracy, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday.
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Africa: The Toxic Air We Breathe - Greenpeace Finds Hotspots in Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa
[Greenpeace] "The ten largest NO2 point sources identified in Africa are all thermal power stations, with nine in South Africa owned by ESKOM and the tenth in Côte d'Ivoire".
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Kenya: Health Ministry Attributes Increased Cases of Respiratory Infections to Influenza
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health has attributed the surge in respiratory illnesses to an increase in influenza infections and not COVID-19.
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South Africa: Damning Report On 'State of Disrepair' of Many Police Stations
[GroundUp] The committee recommended that SAPS finds a way to be less dependent on Public Works
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South Africa: Legal Setback for Prasa Whistleblower
[GroundUp] Fired head of legal Martha Ngoye's reinstatement overturned on appeal
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South Africa: Police Van Knocks Over Woman, Breaks Her Pelvis, Shoots Rubber Bullets At Crowd and Drives Off
[GroundUp] Nolwazi Tokhwe from Capricorn is being treated in hospital. She also has a fractured spine and injured right arm.
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South Africa: New CEO Promises Brighter Future for State's Media Development Agency
[GroundUp] But the MDDA's last clean audit was in 2020/21 and the board chair, flagged by the Nugent Commission, is still in office
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Senegal: Results Confirm Faye's Large Win in Senegal Presidential Elections
[RFI] Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye has comfortably won the Senegalese presidential election with 54.28 percent of votes in the first round, official provisional results have shown.
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Liberia: Special Taskforce Impounds Vehicle of Former Police IG
[New Dawn] Monrovia -- Liberia's Assets Recovery and Property Retrieval Taskforce has seized a vehicle operated by former Liberia National Police (LNP) Inspector General Col. Patrick T. Sudue.
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Africa: Akere Muna Appointed Goodwill Ambassador of the African Legal Support Facility
[InfoWire] With the choice of Akere Muna as Goodwill Ambassador, a new era begins for the ALSF. This marks a new chapter in its commitment to build sustainable legal capacity on the African continent.
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Zimbabwe: Family of Six Now Requires ZW$5,4 Million for Monthly Needs
[New Zimbabwe] An average family of six now requires a minimum ZW$5,4 million to meet monthly needs signifying a 65,8% increase from the figures recorded last month, Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has reported.
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Rwanda: Why Global Coalition Is Lobbying Rwanda to Endorse 'End of Fossil Fuels' Call
[New Times] A global coalition is lobbying states, including Rwanda, to endorse a proposed 'Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty' to considerably reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming that is causing climate change and its effects such as severe floods, and prolonged drought.
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Nigeria: Tinubu Honours 17 Slain Soldiers, Families to Get Houses, Scholarships
[Premium Times] Mr Tinubu also announced "scholarships to all the children of the deceased up to the university level."
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Mali: Army, Wagner Group Atrocities Against Civilians
[HRW] Investigations Needed Into Indiscriminate Drone Strikes, Summary Killings
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Nigeria: Tinubu Sets Up New Economic Coordination, Management Teams
[Premium Times] The Presidential Economic Coordination Council (PECC) comprises distinguished leaders and key government officials.
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Gabon: Thousands Arrive in Gabon for Dialogue to End Military Transition
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Thousands of people are gathering in Libreville and Akanda for what the government calls an Inclusive National Dialogue, to be held April 2 to 30, aimed at bringing Gabon back to civilian rule.
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Mali: Drone Strikes Killed 13 Civilians Including Seven Children in Amasrakad
[AI London] Two night-time drone strikes by the Malian army on 17 March killed at least 13 civilians, including seven children aged between two and 17, in Amasrakad, Gao region, and left more than a dozen people injured, according to eyewitness accounts gathered by Amnesty International.
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Africa: New TB Skin Test Could Offer Cheaper and Easier Way to Detect the Disease
[The Conversation Africa] Detecting tuberculosis early could play a significant role in eradicating the world's most deadly infectious disease. The World Health Organization says 1.5 million people die from this devastating disease each year.
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Uganda: 'The Path We've Chosen' - Uganda's Young Climate Activists Stay Defiant
[African Arguments] Despite being targeted by the police and courts, youth activists say the dangers of EACOP going ahead remain greater than those of protesting.
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Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Mission Chief Says Humanitarian Disaster 'Unfolding Before Our Very Eyes'
[UN News] Insecurity in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has worsened since the end of recent elections, UN Special Representative Bintou Keita told the Security Council on Wednesday.
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Africa: When Non-Intervention Becomes a Dogma
[CFR] Sometimes the only thing worse than foreign intervention is non-intervention.
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Congo-Kinshasa: Displaced by War, Survivors Speak Out
[Norwegian Refugee Council] In and around Goma, around 170,000 people have fled the fighting in Masisi territory in recent weeks to settle in the two sites for displaced people in Rusayo. Around 20,000 of them arrived in the week of 12 February alone.
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Sudan: U.S. Commits Additional Funding for Humanitarian Assistance of Sudanese Refugees
[State Department] Digital press briefing with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Assistant Secretary of State, Julieta Valls Noyes. Assistant Secretary Noyes discussed her meetings with senior government officials, humanitarian leaders, and refugees in Ethiopia and Chad on the growing humanitarian and migration challenges in both central and eastern Africa.
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Africa: International Day of Forests - Global Experts Urge Action As Africa Grapples With $65 Billion Timber Trade Deficit
[African Development Bank (AfDB)] Africa must work to urgently address its staggering $65 billion timber trade deficit to position forests as a critical driver for the continent's future development, global experts urge.
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Africa: African Diaspora Network (ADN) Announces Pivotal Partnership with Prosper Africa to Strengthen Economic Ties Between Africa and the USA
[African Diaspora Network] SILICON VALLEY, Calif., March 14, 2024 -- Prosper Africa and ADN collaboration will debut at the upcoming African Diaspora Investment Symposium (ADIS24)