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The bodies of 27 migrants believed to have died of thirst have been found in the Chadian desert, the U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday. According to reports, the migrants reportedly left Moussoro, a crossroads town in West-Central Chad, 17 months ago in a pickup truck, the IOM said in a statement. It is believed the truck got lost in the deep desert, broke down due to mechanical issues, and the migrants died of thirst, said the migration organization affiliated with the UN. “We are deeply saddened by this most recent tragedy and extend our heartfelt condolences to the migrants’…

An Ethiopian man whose father was murdered during the country’s war has joined a lawsuit filed in Kenya against Meta, accusing Facebook’s parent company of fanning violence and hate speech in Africa. The case filed in the High Court claims that Meta responded inadequately to hateful content on its platform, especially in relation to the war in Tigray that has raged for two years. One of the petitioners said his father, an Ethiopian academic, was targeted with racist messages before his murder in November 2021, and that Facebook did not remove these posts despite complaints. “If Facebook had just stopped…

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged African countries to stop “begging” from the West in order to earn global respect and change poor perceptions about the continent. “If we stop being beggars and spend African money inside the continent, Africa will not need to ask for respect from anyone, we will get the respect we deserve. If we make it prosperous as it should be, respect will follow,” Mr Akufo-Addo made the remarks during the opening of the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington DC on Tuesday. Mr Akufo-Addo urged greater solidarity among Africans to address shared aspirations. Nana Akufo-Addo’s remarks…

Ghana has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a $3 billion bailout loan, the IMF announced Tuesday, as the country faces a severe economic crisis. Already burdened by high debt, Ghana is facing historic inflation of more than 40 percent and a collapse in the value of its currency – the cedi – economic difficulties exacerbated since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “I am pleased to announce that the IMF team has reached an agreement with the Ghanaian authorities on a three-year program (…) under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) in the amount (…) of about 3…

Zambian police have discovered the bodies of 27 suspected Ethiopian migrants “dead from hunger and exhaustion” in a northern district of the capital Lusaka. The victims are “all men aged between 20 and 38,” the police said in a statement on Sunday (November 11). The bodies were taken to the morgue for identification and autopsy. An investigation has been opened. The alert was given at dawn, around 04:00 GMT, by residents who discovered the bodies. Once on the spot, the police found a person still alive and “panting” among the bodies thrown along a road. She was rushed to the hospital.…

It has been proven that SGBV does not just threaten the lives and the future of the victims, it also hinders the development of the country as a whole. In the mining sector of Rwanda, a male-dominated sector, there have been numerous cases of discrimination and sexual harassment subjected women especially widows and single mothers. Undergraduates in desperate need of jobs have been put in positions where they have had to give sexual favours to mining managers with hopes of getting jobs in return. In the past, I have experienced sexual harassment in the mines but I was afraid to report it to anyone, I wanted…

African leaders are meeting this week in the United States of America for the annual US-Africa summit. The summit brings together several African leaders, organizations and top US government officials. The Biden’s three-day summit (13-15 Dec.) will feature announcements of new US investment and highlight food security — worsened by the invasion of Ukraine The summit will also focus on values such as democracy and good governance, as well as fighting climate change. One key topic will be the fate of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the 2000 deal that granted duty-free access to the US market for most…

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi denounced on Saturday “expansionist tendencies of Rwanda” which he again accused of supporting the M23 rebellion that has seized large swathes of territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent months. “The year 2022 has witnessed the resurgence of Rwanda’s expansionist impulses under the guise of M23,” the head of state said during his state of the nation address to the two houses of parliament meeting in congress. The DRC is the victim of an “unequivocal aggression by Rwanda”, he insisted. For nearly 30 years, the Congolese east has been plagued by…

The body of a Zambian student who died while fighting in Ukraine after he was recruited in a Russian jail arrived home in a makeshift coffin Sunday. AFP journalists saw a white, glass-panelled hearse adorned with small curtains affording a partial view of the container holding the body arrive on the tarmac at Lusaka airport, where grieving relatives gathered. On the coffin was a code written in black marker pen along with letters in the Cyrillic alphabet, betraying its provenance. Zambia demanded an urgent explanation from Moscow last month over the death of Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda in September while fighting…

Over 139 people arrested during a bloody protest in Chad in October have been released after a month and a half in detention. A total of 80 received one to two years of suspended sentences and the remaining 59 were acquitted after a mass trial of 401 people. Outlawed demonstrations were held on October 20th to mark the date when the military had initially promised to hand over power to civilians. “All of these people have been given a release order. From this moment they are free and can go home,” Rachid Mahamat Allamine, the second deputy prosecutor in N’Djamena,…