Tag: East Africa
40,000 displaced in north Mozambique after assault on Palma
JOHANNESBURG — Some 40,000 displaced and urgently needing food, work suspended on a multi-billion-dollar gas investment, and scores of dead still being counted.
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Rwanda report blames France for ‘enabling’ the 1994 genocide
PARIS — The French government bears “significant” responsibility for “enabling a foreseeable genocide,” a report commissioned by the Rwandan government concludes about France’s role...
Rwanda report blames France for ‘enabling’ the 1994 genocide
PARIS — The French government bears “significant” responsibility for “enabling a foreseeable genocide,” a report commissioned by the Rwandan government concludes about France’s role...
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April 18
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US deports woman who lied about role in Rwandan genocide
CONCORD, N.H. — A woman who served a 10-year sentence in U.S. prison for lying about her role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide to...
US puts visa restrictions on Uganda, saying vote was flawed
NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States says it is imposing visa restrictions on “those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the...
Amnesty: Eritrean troops still killing in Ethiopia’s Tigray
NAIROBI, Kenya — Eritrean soldiers remain in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and are killing civilians weeks after Ethiopia said the soldiers would leave, according...
Somalia’s president OKs mandate extension, alarming US, EU
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s president has defiantly signed into law an extension of his mandate and that of his government as the United States...
UN chief: 52 armies and groups suspected of sexual violence
UNITED NATIONS — The COVID-19 pandemic led to a spike in gender-based violence last year and combatants continued to use sexual violence “as a...
Business-seeking singer Akon draws political fire in Uganda
KAMPALA, Uganda — The American rap artist and singer Akon is drawing criticism from rights activists over his meetings with Uganda's president as he...
