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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “outraged” by the deaths Sunday of two people when peacekeepers opened fire at a border post with Uganda in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Guterres “stresses in the strongest terms the need to establish accountability for these events” and endorses “the detention of military personnel involved in this incident and the immediate investigation,” a statement from the secretary-general’s deputy spokesman, Farhan Haq, said. In a video of the incident shared on social networks, men, at least one dressed as a police officer and another as a Congolese soldier, are seen advancing…

A court in the U.S decided Commander Khalifa Haftar was liable for war crimes for extrajudicial killings and torture in Libya. Several Libyan families claim the chief of the eastern-based Libyan National Army is responsible for the bombing or torture of their relatives. A federal judge in Virginia said Haftar was convicted since he hadn’t cooperated with justice. She added the senior field marshal could go on appeal and more court hearings were necessary to determine the compensation amounts. The families filed their lawsuit in 2019 and 2020 under the 1991 US law, the Torture Victim Protection Act, which allows…

Colorful balloons fill the skies over New Jersey as the 39th annual New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning kicks off. It’s the largest summertime hot air balloon and music festival in North America. Green Brook’s June Lanza has been coming to the New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning for more than three decades and this year she wanted her nearly 5-year-old granddaughter Jessie to experience it. At dawn on Friday, Lanza, her daughter Tracie Lantz, from Florida, and Jessie watched as some 35 hot air balloons prepared to fill the sky at Solberg Airport for the kick-off of this weekend’s…

Galyna Kios had been sheltering with family and neighbors in her gloomy basement, cooking on a makeshift wood-fired stove, when the Russians came. The troops had been biding their time outside Mala Rogan, 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Ukraine’s northeast border with Russia, but decided to take the village two weeks into the war. Now the residents are facing the daunting task of rebuilding their lives, after the Russians withdrew. AMN/Media Report/Ukraine.

A funeral organised for the victims of the anti-MONUSCO protests in the city of Butembo, Northeastern DRC turned into a dispute on Friday. Protesters and authorities did not succeed to reach an agreement on the location of the burial and some protesters took the coffins from the local morgue. Three UN peacekeepers and seven demonstrators were killed on Tuesday amid violent protests against UN’s force in the region. “We have come to ask MONUSCO to leave, as we have always feared, MONUSCO has used weapons against us, which caused more than 11 victims. We are digging graves for the dignified burial of…

The presidential race is heating up in less than two weeks until the Kenyan general elections. The main opposition candidates, William Ruto and Raila Odinga are multiplying campaign meetings to secure voters as opinion polls suggest tight results. Ever since Deputy President Ruto unveiled his manifesto at the end of June, he has pledged to tackle to cost of living and transform the economy to create jobs. “His manifesto also seems to have a lot of traction with several Kenyans, says Tom Mboya, a governance expert, It is focused on what they call ‘bottom-up economics,’ which seems to focus primarily on…

Ethiopia’s athletics boss on Thursday urged the federal government to ease access to the war-torn region of Tigray, which is home to several medalist from the recently concluded World Athletics Championships. Three of Ethiopia’s four gold medalists and one silver medalist from the championships held in the US city of Eugene earlier this month hail from Tigray, including the women’s marathon winner Gotytom Gebreslase. In Amharic, Sahle-work Zewde, President of Ethiopia,  voiced are frustration on the ongoing situation in the east African nation. “There is the winner in Ethiopia. This is the Ethiopia we know and wish. However, Ethiopia is…

Benin has freed 30 opposition supporters arrested during the 2021 election that handed President Patrice Talon a second term, a senior judicial source said on Wednesday. The decision came during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron who met with Talon in the country’s commercial capital Cotonou. The move came a surprise to many but highly welcomed. Jean-Marie Avodagbe, moto-taxi driver, couldn’t hide his joy. “After the meeting with Boni Yayi and Nicephore Soglo, the two former presidents who had in his time demanded the release of political detainees, and with the visit of the French president, we see that President…

The Civil Society Organizations , CSOs on Thursday, expressed pain over closure of both public and private schools in Abuja-Nigeria. The closure of both public and private schools in Abuja meant terrorists are gaining upper hand with their reign of terror according to the convener of the organization. The Civil group further highlighted that the agenda for the terrorist is to abolish Western education, and so if the terrorists are succeeding even without bombing the schools, government facilities and government is already shutting down the schools, it means a win situation for the insurgent group. Fear looms over the consequences…

Protests against Guinea’s junta and its handling of plans to return to democracy brought the capital to a standstill Thursday, with organizers claiming that one person was killed. Clashes broke out Thursday morning between young demonstrators and the police in several areas seen as opposition strongholds in the capital. The protest began ahead of comments by the chair of a regional bloc who claimed to have persuaded the junta to shorten its timeline for a return to democracy. Umaro Sissoco Embalo, president of Guinea Bissau and current chairman of ECOWAS, speaking during Macron’s visit to his country said: “I was…