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How can peace return to Burkina Faso? For a second time in only 9 months, military officials were acclaimed by demonstrators in the streets of Ouagadougou following a takeover. The Friday coup has raised condemnation on one part and hopes on the other. The spokesman for Guinea’s military government offered his perspective on the situation. “If we want to consider the transition in Burkina and only focus on principles by saying that coups are condemnable and that they must be limited in duration, without providing solutions to the causes of these crises, we take the risk that it occurs again”,…

The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) was in Guinea on Friday (September 30) as questions persist about the country’s ability to host the African Cup of Nations as planned in 2025, a Guinean sports official said. Motsepe was due to meet the leader of the junta Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, from 3.30pm local time (and GMT) before leaving in the evening, according to the program of the visit communicated by the Guinean federation. Beforehand, he worked with Guinean football leaders in preparation for his meeting with Colonel Doumbouya, Thierno Saidou Diakite, a member of the organizing committee, told…

Somali activists, Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman, have won the 2022 Swedish Right Livelihood Award – considered by some as an alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize – for their courage in promoting human rights and peace in the face of the ongoing terrorism and gender-based violence in their country. The NGO praised the mother and daughter team for using innovative and culturally relevant solutions to support survivors of gender-based violence, disarm and rehabilitate former child combatants, and equip women and youth with job and leadership skills. Long-standing commitment to peace Their organisation, the Mogadishu-based Elman Peace and Human Rights…

Gunfire rang out early Friday in Burkina Faso’s capital and the state broadcaster went off the air, sparking fears of a mutiny nine months after a military coup d’etat overthrew the country’s president. It was not immediately known where Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba was in the West African country. He had given a speech the day before in Djibo, in the north of Burkina Faso. Last week, Damiba had traveled to New York where he addressed the U.N. General Assembly as the country’s coup leader-turned-president. In his speech, Damiba defended his January coup as “an issue of survival…

An outbreak of Ebola is raising the alarm in Uganda. The staff of St. Florence’s Medical Clinic in the town of Mubende in southern Uganda is on high alert. The clinic is believed to have treated the first confirmed patient of Ebola, a 24-year-old boy, who later caught the virus. Lab technician Melon Kyomugisha said the boy presented Malaria-like symptoms when he came in. “That man came in here and we were the first ones to treat him. I tested him and he had malaria, then the following day the man was not improving then we had to change the…

In the Egyptian capital Cairo, volunteers collect plastic and rubbish from the Nile River. The action is part of a campaign to clean up the river ahead of the upcoming COP27 global climate summit in November. https://youtu.be/0HmK7H3MXGo AMN Reporters.

New satellite imagery of one of the world’s most reclusive nations shows a military build-up inside Eritrea near the border with Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, backing up witness accounts of a new, large-scale offensive. Eritrea has fought alongside Ethiopia against Tigray forces. It rejects allegations that its soldiers committed some of the worst atrocities in the conflict that began in late 2020. Witnesses in Eritrea this month told The Associated Press that people including students and public servants are being rounded up across the nation and sent to fight in the new offensive. The satellite imagery provided by Maxar Technologies…

The long-awaited trial of Félicien Kabuga, for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has got underway at a United Nations tribunal in The Hague. The judges said the hearing must go on despite the former businessman and radio station owner’s refusal to appear in court. He is being charged with three counts of genocide and two counts of crimes against humanity. Kabuga, who is in his late 80s, was captured in Paris two years ago after decades on the run. In his first court appearance in 2020, following his extradition to The Hague, he pleaded not guilty to the…

16 cases of ebola virus have so far been reported in Uganda since the fresh outbreak last week Tuesday, the Ugandan health ministry announced on Sunday. On Friday, the health authorities announced that four people had died of Ebola in three days. All the deaths and cases were recorded in Mubende district, about 150 kilometres west of the capital Kampala. The Ministry of Health announced on Twitter on Sunday (September 25) that 16 Ebola cases had been recorded since the start of the outbreak and that “cases have been identified outside Mebende”, three in Kyegegwa and one in Kassanda, in…

Thirteen years to the day after the 2009 massacre at a stadium in the Guinean capital, Conakry, the trial of dozen of suspects will get underway later this week. Among the accused is the country’s former military coup leader, Moussa Dadis Camara, who returned to Guinea on Sunday to attend the proceedings. ‘He always wanted to be there. And now that this trial has been scheduled, Camara will be there to deliver his part of the truth. We can reassure you that he is not guilty of anything, rather he has claimed his innocence and we will prove it during…