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The French government bears “significant” responsibility for “enabling a foreseeable genocide,” a report commissioned by the Rwandan government concludes about France’s role before and during the horror in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered in 1994. The report comes amid efforts by Rwanda to document the role of French authorities before, during, and after …
Zimbabwe’s president has unveiled a towering bronze statue in the center of Harare, the capital, honoring a 19th-century Black anti-colonialist heroine who was hanged for leading a rebellion against white occupation. President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed to press for the return of her skull from Britain. Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana, more widely known as Mbuya (grandmother in …
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British, European and American diplomats and donors have voiced serious concerns about how the World Health Organization handled sex abuse allegations involving its own staff during an outbreak of Ebola in Congo. Recently, the AP published an investigation documenting that senior WHO management was informed of multiple sex abuse allegations involving at least two of …
Temitope Balogun Joshua, one of Africa’s most popular televangelists who was known as T.B. Joshua, has died. He was 57. The Nigerian-born pastor was founder of the mega church Synagogue Church Of All Nations, or SCOAN, which also runs the Emmanuel Television Station in Lagos. The church announced his death in a statement on June …
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and a champion of African nationalism who spearheaded the fights to end white minority rule across southern Africa, has died at the age of 97. Kaunda’s death was announced on June 17 by Zambian President Edgar Lungu on his Facebook page. “On behalf of the entire nation and on my …
Human rights groups have welcomed the imprisonment of former South African President Jacob Zuma, who began serving a 15-month sentence on July 8 for defying a court order to testify at a judicial commission investigating allegations of widespread corruption during his 2009-18 tenure. Zuma, 79, surrendered to authorities shortly before a midnight Wednesday deadline and …
More than 120 countries elected British lawyer Karim Khan on February 12 as the next prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, one of the toughest jobs in international law because the tribunal seeks justice for the world’s worst atrocities – war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. His election on the second secret ballot by …
The United Nations kicked off the selection of its next secretary-general on February 5, asking the 193 U.N. member states to submit candidates to be the world organization’s chief diplomat and operating officer. The process officially began with a joint letter signed virtually by General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir and Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Barbara Woodward, …
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Ghana’s parliament has been suspended for at least three weeks following a surge in COVID-19 cases among parliament members and staff. Speaker Alban Bagbin announced the suspension on February 9, saying that at least 17 members of parliament and 151 staffers have tested positive for the coronavirus. He has urged lawmakers and other parliament staffers …
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Delegates from Libya’s warring factions on February 5 selected four leaders to guide the North African country through to national elections in December in a major – if uncertain – step toward unifying a nation with two separate governments in the east and west. In what could become a landmark achievement to end one of …