The court barred him as he is facing allegations of murder and torture and has had UN sanctions slapped on him. He was president for 10 years until 2013, when his overthrow precipitated years of violent chaos....
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The immigrants are related to Ethiopian Jews brought to Israel decades ago in a series of secret operations. But questions over their eligibility to settle there held up the process....
A group of military personnel were on manoeuvres in that region when the incident happened on Sunday. In one of the ambushes, a colonel and a major died, sources quoted by local media say....
“Due to drought and an increase in elephant numbers, coupled with human-elephant conflict incidents, a need has been identified to reduce these populations,” an advert in the state-owned New Era newspaper on Wednesday noted....
According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NCID), there has been a major surge in cases in the Eastern and Western Cape with more than 2000 cases recorded per day....
Ahmed Ibrahim a witness living next door to the collapsed building explained, "The building collapsed suddenly and there were nine people inside, six corpses have been recovered and the other three people have not yet been found."...
Kosiah is the first Liberian to face trial for crimes committed during the conflict in the country....
Their respective police chiefs met at the weekend in Tanzania's southeastern town of Mtwara, where they signed a memorandum of understanding to crack down on the unrest....
After nearly a month of fighting, the full extent of the damage on roads and airports in the state is only being known now. On Wednesday, state TV broadcast images purporting to show Axum airport's ransacked terminal....
About 150 people, mostly male youth, burned tyres and hurled stones at security forces who responded with tear gas. The clashes, in the eastern port city of Chebba, lasted until the wee hours of Wednesday morning....
Egypt has not commented on the report. Last month Amnesty condemned what it called the "chilling escalation" of a government crackdown on civil society in Egypt....
The campaign group says the Egyptian authorities executed at least 57 people in October and November alone - nearly double the number recorded in the whole of 2019....
“It is with great sadness that we have come to the difficult decision to end so much of our support,” said Ellen van der Velden, MSF operational manager. “It is not something we come to lightly. ...
"I am here with a mandate to negotiate readmission and visa facilitation, we will see how the discussions go," she said during a press briefing at the beginning of a two-day official visit....
Rumours had circulated on social media that the model, Salma al-Shimi, had been arrested after Monday’s shoot at the Saqqara necropolis, 20 miles south of Cairo, but the source said police detained the photographer on Monday....
The Commonwealth Observer Group is made up of politicians, diplomats and experts in law, human rights, gender and election administration from across member countries....
