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Three members of the Central African armed group 3R (Return, Reclamation and Rehabilitation) were sentenced to prison Monday. The sentences range from 20 years to life for “crimes against humanity” in a first verdict by the Special Criminal Court (SCC), a hybrid court of local and international judges. Issa Sallet Adoum, Ousman Yaouba and Tahir Mahamat accused of the May 21rst, 2019 massacre of 46 civilians in villages in the northwest, were found guilty of, among other things, “murder”, “inhumane acts” and “humiliating and degrading treatment”. The first was sentenced to life and the other two to 20 years in…

The 33rd edition of the Carthage Film Festival kicked off in Tunisia’s capital and will end on November 5. Guests from all parts of the African continent attended the ceremony Sunday. As the festival celebrated its 60th anniversary, its openness on the Mediterranean and mostly its Arab and African roots were honored. “This event links the north and the south of Africa, and at the same time the Arab world”, Senegalese film critic Baba Diop, journalist and film critic says. “The Sahara has always been considered a border in Africa, separating North Africa and “sub-Saharan” Africa, but today, with this…

The Nigerian army has repelled an attack on a military base in western Nigeria where nearly 1,700 jihadists are being held, killing eight suspected insurgents affiliated with the Islamic State group, two military sources said Monday. Dozens of Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) fighters tried to break into the Wawa military base in Niger state near the border with Benin on Saturday to free hundreds of jihadists, the two officers told AFP on condition of anonymity. The attack is a reminder of Iswap’s ability to strike hundreds of kilometres from its northeastern stronghold, where the army is fighting a…

Somalia’s president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 100 people. The government put out an appeal for blood donations with dozens of people gathered outside hospitals in the capital Mogadishu, seeking news of family members. In Mogadishu on Saturday, two cars packed with explosives blew up minutes apart near the busy Zobe intersection, followed by gunfire in an attack targeting Somalia’s education ministry. The attack took place at the same busy junction where a truck packed with explosives blew up on October 14,…

The State Department has ordered the families of U.S. embassy staffers in the Nigerian capital to leave due to heightened fears of a terrorist attack as it repeated a warning for all Americans to reconsider travelling to any part of the country and not to visit Abuja at all. The announcement came just two days after the department said it would allow nonessential personnel at the embassy in Abuja to depart voluntarily due to elevated security concerns. It did not provide details but the change suggested the U.S. has indications that an attack may be imminent. “The department (has) ordered…

At least six schoolchildren from 3 different schools tested positive for the Ebola Virus in Kampala Uganda, with one of them losing the battle to the disease that has been on the rise in the country. Ugandan Minister for Health Doctor Jane Ruth Aceng told journalists on Wednesday six children who hail from the same neighborhood were from an earlier contact that succumbed to the virus. “These learners attended three schools in the Rubaga division. We have listed 170 contacts from these schools for follow up.” Says the Minister Doctor Jane Ruth Aceng. Aceng also blamed the escalation of the…

A bone infection brought Carlos and Evadula together in Germany. The young Angolan spent two years at the NGO Friedensdorf International headquarters, but now he returns home. Besides the free treatments, the two young people shared personal experiences. Carlos took a lot of things in his luggage, some given to him by Evadula from Afghanistan, in this long awaited return to his family. “I suffered a lot with this boy. He went to Germany, stayed there for one year, there they straightened one foot, another foot, he came back, but it wasn’t finished. So he stayed here for two years…

Cypriot police fired tear gas Friday after a fire broke out in an overcrowded migrant reception centre amid clashes sparked by an argument between different nationalities, officers said. One person needed hospital treatment after being injured at the Pournara camp for migrants, on the edge of the capital Nicosia. People hurled rocks and objects at each other, forcing many to flee in panic, and firefighters rushed to extinguish a blaze that sent billowing smoke into the sky. Tensions later “calmed”, a police said. Chief of police Stelios Papatheodorou blamed the violence on overcrowding at center, which holds more than double…

Gikomba Market in Nairobi is Kenya’s hub for second hand clothes. It’s always heaving with people on the lookout for a bargain, Western brand names which are recycled and sold at a fraction of their original cost and traders appear to have an infinite amount of sacks full of second hand clothes. This market is a source of commerce, feeding into the local economy and it enables people like John Mwangi to earn an income. “This trade is what enables me to take care of my daily needs. I do not have skills in any other trade. If it stops…

It was dark. Everything was dark. And the water level rose, even higher. This time, Fortune Lawrence resigned herself to flee with her 8 children on a makeshift boat, far from her house ravaged by the floods. It has been two weeks since the 50-year-old and her “pikin” (“children” in Nigerian pidgin) fled the deadliest floods of the decade in Africa’s most populous country. The family is now living in deplorable conditions in a crowded school near Ahoada, Rivers State, in southeast Nigeria. According to records, more than 1,000 people have taken refuge in the classrooms of this makeshift IDP…