Starved, beaten and electrocuted, Ahmed remains traumatised months after being trafficked to Southeast Asia, one of an untold number of Africans forced to work in scam centres far from home.The complexes have flourished across the region, often staffed by foreigners who are made to swindle people in what analysts say is a multi-billion-dollar industry.Among them …
International courts have failed to stop three decades of atrocities in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, showing a special tribunal is needed, the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor said Wednesday.The eastern DRC, scene of decades of relentless conflict, has been plunged into fresh turmoil as fighters from the M23 group backed by Rwanda …
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou threatened Wednesday to cancel a longstanding agreement with Algeria on free movement after a deadly knife attack in which the main suspect is a man of Algerian origin.The row is just the latest in a series of disputes that has heightened tension between France and its former colony.Bayrou spoke following …
The erosion of multilateralism threatens global growth and stability, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned Wednesday at a G20 finance meeting in South Africa marked by the absence of the US treasury secretary.Two days of talks by finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s leading economies opened a week after a meeting of G20 foreign …
The erosion of multilateralism threatens global growth and stability, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned Wednesday at a G20 finance meeting in South Africa marked by the absence of the US treasury secretary.Two days of talks by finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s leading economies opened a week after a meeting of G20 foreign …
The erosion of multilateralism threatens global growth and stability, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned Wednesday at a G20 finance meeting in South Africa marked by the absence of the US treasury secretary.Two days of talks by finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s leading economies opened a week after a meeting of G20 foreign …
For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert’s southern rim from the Atlantic to the Red Sea.Tens of thousands of people have been killed in violence which began in Mali in 2012, spread to Burkina Faso and Niger, and now threatens coastal west African …
Who are the jihadists using the Sahel as a hunting ground?Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:19:02 GMT Read More »
The erosion of multilateralism threatens global growth and stability, President Cyril Ramaphosa warned Wednesday at a G20 finance meeting in South Africa marked by the absence of the US Treasury secretary.Two days of talks by finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s leading economies opened a week after a meeting of G20 foreign …
A Tunisian court sentenced eight defendants to death on Tuesday over the 2013 assassination of leftist opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi, according to local reports.Charges included “attempting to change the state’s nature” and “inciting armed conflict”, local media reported.Three of the defendants also received additional death sentences for “deliberate participation in premeditated murder”, according to the …
Burundi troops — allies of Kinshasa — were still deploying Tuesday in east DR Congo, as the UK announced it was suspending most direct bilateral aid to Rwanda over an offensive by M23 fighters that UN experts say is supported by soldiers from the east African nation.The Rwanda-backed M23 has in recent weeks seized two …
Burundi troops deploy in east DRC, as UK pauses most aidTue, 25 Feb 2025 18:48:45 GMT Read More »
