Civil society calls for deal on number of South Sudan states
Civil society groups have urged the international community to persuade the South Sudan government to compromise on the number of states, and help form a...
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Ethiopian MPs ratify law criminalising hate speech
Addis Ababa, The Ethiopian House of Peoples Representative (HoPR), the lower house of the Ethiopian parliament, on Thursday ratified a new law that criminalised hate speech...
Ethiopia to hold parliamentary elections on August 29
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s election body on Friday set a date for free parliamentary elections. The election will be a first test of voter support for Prime...
South Sudan buries reports on oil pollution, birth defects
PALOCH, — The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with...
Getting the story of South Sudan’s devastating oil pollution
These are the suspected effects of the pollution from South Sudan’s oil industry that I was determined to document. The people I spoke to in the oil-pumping...
Minister orders 4 Chinese deported over caning Kenyan worker
Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) Fred Matiang’i has ordered the deportation of four Chinese nationals taken to court over assaulting a Kenyan worker. The four...
Ethiopia passes law imposing jail terms for internet posts that stir unrest
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s Parliament passed a law on Thursday imposing jail terms for people whose internet posts stir unrest, a move the government says is needed...
Sudan signs deal with families of victims of USS Cole bombing: ministry
Khartoum, Sudan said Thursday it has signed a deal with the families of the victims of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, meeting...
Uganda compensates families of Kenyans killed in Martyrs Day march
The Ugandan government has given Ksh54,000 ($540) to each of the four families of four Catholic pilgrims who died in a freak accident last May...
Over 200 isolated in Uganda over coronavirus fears
Kampala, Uganda has this week ordered more than 120 travellers from China to be isolated for two weeks over coronavirus fears. A week ago, it ordered...
