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More than 3,600 people have been killed this year in “senseless” gang violence ravaging Haiti, the United Nations said on Friday.One of the world’s poorest countries has been plunged into anarchy, with gangs taking over the capital, Port-au-Prince, and the security and health systems collapsing.About 600,000 people were displaced in the first six months of …

At least 3,661 killed this year in Haiti violence: UNFri, 27 Sep 2024 13:51:34 GMT Read More »

A South African woman celebrated her 118th birthday Friday as one of the oldest people in the world with a small party at her care home.Margaret Maritz was born on September 27, 1906, according to a copy of her identity card shown to journalists by a charity that helped to organise the party in Touws …

S.African woman turns 118, among the oldest in the worldFri, 27 Sep 2024 13:15:24 GMT Read More »

A paramilitary attack on a market in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher killed 18 people, a medical source told AFP on Friday, after world leaders appealed for an end to the country’s wartime suffering.The Rapid Support Forces’ shelling of the market on Thursday evening also injured dozens, activists said separately, as the paramilitaries and regular …

18 dead in Sudan’s El-Fasher after paramilitary attack on market: medicFri, 27 Sep 2024 12:51:38 GMT Read More »

Holding his balance in a crammed Nairobi bus, street poet Willie Oeba delivers political punchlines straight to commuters in a bid to keep the fire of recent protests alive.”The president is setting a bad precedent. The first two letters stand for PR to the residents,” spits Oeba to much clapping and cheers from his audience …

Kenyan street poet keeps protests alive one bus at a timeFri, 27 Sep 2024 07:24:24 GMT Read More »

Current and former Springboks have rallied behind under-fire South Africa fly-half Manie Libbok ahead of a Rugby Championship title decider against Argentina in Mbombela on Saturday.Libbok, a second-half replacement for two-time Rugby World Cup winner Handre Pollard, missed a 35-metre penalty in the final minute last weekend which led to a 29-28 defeat by the Pumas.The …

Springboks rally behind under-fire Libbok before title deciderFri, 27 Sep 2024 02:10:13 GMT Read More »

Kenya is aiming to complete its full deployment of a stabilization force in violence-torn Haiti by January, President William Ruto said Thursday, as Haiti’s leader suggested making it a UN peacekeeping mission.The three-month-old security force to combat spiraling insecurity in the Caribbean nation is currently a Kenyan-led multinational policing operation, and changing it into a UN-mandated …

Kenya set for full Haiti deployment amid call for shift to UN missionThu, 26 Sep 2024 22:46:39 GMT Read More »

Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Thursday vowed investigations into what he termed “widespread corruption” under the previous administration, accusing it of having fiddled its financial figures.”The policy of unbridled indebtedness (under former president Macky Sall) has led to the use of resources that is not transparent and that is conducive to widespread corruption,” he …

Senegal PM vows ‘corruption’ probe into former governmentThu, 26 Sep 2024 20:09:09 GMT Read More »

Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army attacked paramilitary positions across the Sudanese capital, witnesses and a military source told AFP.The clashes began at dawn, several residents reported, in what appeared to be the army’s first major offensive in months to regain parts of the capital controlled by the rival paramilitary …

Air strikes in Khartoum as Sudan army attacks paramilitary positionsThu, 26 Sep 2024 17:44:14 GMT Read More »

Kenya will complete by January its full deployment of a stabilization force in violence-torn Haiti, President William Ruto said Thursday, as he appealed for greater funding to assist other contributing countries.Funding for the mission to combat widespread lawlessness and gangsterism has been a sticking point, with the UN previously calling the level of commitments “unacceptable.””Kenya …

Kenya to complete full deployment to Haiti by January: presidentThu, 26 Sep 2024 14:30:35 GMT Read More »

The family of jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah urged the UK government on Thursday to act to ensure his release in three days’ time, when he will have served a full five years in custody.Abdel Fattah, 42, was arrested on September 29, 2019. Just over two years later, he was handed a five-year sentence for …

Family urges UK govt to secure release of Egyptian dissidentThu, 26 Sep 2024 13:59:42 GMT Read More »