US Again Accused of Killing Civilians in Somalia Airstrikes
The U.S. military is facing more allegations of killing civilians with airstrikes in Somalia, and now says it will address the issue more fully in upcoming public reports.
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Africa
Uganda Orders Two-Week Lockdown to Contain Coronavirus
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday ordered an immediate 14-day nationwide lockdown in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus which has so far infected 33 people in the country.
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Africa Sees ‘Extremely Rapid Evolution’ of Pandemic, UN Says
More African countries closed their borders Thursday as the coronavirus’ local spread threatened to turn the continent of 1.3 billion people into an alarming new front for the pandemic.
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Defense Team Urges Leniency for Accused Ugandan Warlord
Final closing arguments were heard at the International Criminal Court on Thursday in a years-long trial of a former child soldier from Uganda charged with war crimes.
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Former Child Soldier on Trial at Hague Criminal Court
Closing arguments began Tuesday in the trial of an ex-commander of a Christian extremist group in Uganda, the first case of a former child soldier to be brought before the International Criminal Court.
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Cave Discovery Reveals Clues to African History
The discovery of a 14th century underground burial site deep in Gabon’s tropical forest may shed light on a little-known period in Africa’s history.
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I.Coast Burns 3 Tons of Pangolin Scales
Ivory Coast officials on Tuesday burned three tons of scales of the pangolin, the most trafficked mammal on Earth.
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Hemisphere Joining Trump Crusade Against Refugees
President Donald Trump isn’t the only world leader making it virtually impossible for many Africans to get asylum in the United States. He’s getting plenty of help from allies in the Americas.
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Booming Business of the Booty-ful Nut of the Seychelles
It is the world’s largest seed, and with a shape suggestive of a woman’s hips and myths of love-making powers, the coco de mer is an icon of the Seychelles.
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France Finds Itself Embroiled in Western Africa’s Sahel Conflict
More than seven years after France sent thousands of troops to fight an insurgency against Mali’s central government in the impoverished sandy hinterlands of the Sahel in Africa, France has become embroiled in what increasingly looks like an endless and expanding Afghanistan-like war, experts say.
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Africa’s Giant Locust Outbreak Spreads to Congo
A small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, the first time the voracious insects have been seen in the Central African country since 1944, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Tuesday, warning of a “major hunger threat” in East Africa from the flying pests.
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Lesotho Court to Decide Whether PM Can Face Murder Charge
Lesotho’s prime minister appeared in court Monday but the murder case against him failed to proceed as the magistrate referred the matter to the Constitutional Court to decide whether a sitting prime minister can be charged with any crime.
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A federal class action claims Starbucks, Quaker Oats and Mars unfairly and deceptively market chocolate products as sustainably and/or ethically sourced, though it is the product of child and slave labor in West Africa.
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France Defends Seizure of Mansion Tied to Equatorial Guinea
France and Equatorial Guinea wrapped up a week of hearings Friday at the United Nations’ highest court in a dispute over a Parisian mansion that the tiny central African country called its embassy.
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Ugandan Activist Imprisoned for Insulting President Is Freed
A Ugandan academic who was imprisoned after insulting the president was freed Thursday by a judge who said she had been wrongfully convicted.
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UN Report: South Sudan’s Rival Sides Are Starving Civilians
South Sudanese officials have diverted millions of dollars of state funds that are badly needed by civilians as the country staggers away from civil war, a United Nations commission said Thursday, and it accused rival fighters of deliberately starving people for strategic gain.
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Police: Lesotho’s Prime Minister to Be Charged With Murder
Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will be charged with the June 2017 killing of his estranged wife, Lipolelo, a top police official said Thursday, and the prime minister announced he would be stepping down.
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Looted 18th Century Crown Returned to Ethiopia After Decades
A rare and looted crown from the 18th century was returned to Ethiopia on Thursday after it was discovered in the Netherlands two decades ago.
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Fish in the Sahara? Yes – 10,000 Years Ago
Scientists have uncovered a great deal of animal remains in the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya, providing important information about the human inhabitants from the Holocene period who lived in what is now the Sahara Desert.
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International Court Paves Way for Trial of Mali War Crimes Suspect
The International Criminal Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal from an accused Islamic militant who argued his charges aren’t serious enough to justify a trial.
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