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Convicted former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen is appealing the February 4 ruling of the International Criminal Court, which found him guilty of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity. “It was a bad judgement, we are…

Cameroon has detained eight soldiers after a video emerged over the weekend showing them in uniform torturing a victim with a machete until he fell unconscious, the Central African nation’s defence ministry said on Monday. The incident,…

At least 60 people died when a passenger barge carrying more than 700 people became shipwrecked on the Congo river at night, Democratic Republic of Congo’s Humanitarian Affairs Minister said on Monday. Some 300 survivors had been found…

China is set to provide Ethiopia with a batch of Covid-19 vaccines and financial assistance to help the African country fight the pandemic and restore its economy, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday.…

Ghana’s Appointment Committee of the Parliament on Wednesday began vetting minister-designates presented by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Akufo-Addo is still in the process of forming a government for his second term and in line…

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have congratulated Morocco’s security services for their achievements in the field of counterterrorism. In the face of violent extremism and the…

South Sudan will receive its first consignment of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine before the end of February. Addressing the weekly coronavirus briefing in Juba on Sunday, the Director-General of Preventive Health Services at the…

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday elected American jurist Joan E Donoghue as the new president of the UN judicial organ, bringing to an end the term of Somalia’s Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, who has been at the helm since 2018.…

Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok on Monday evening announced the formation of a new cabinet which included 26 ministerial posts. “We looked at the world around us, so we put a compass in front of us to keep the country from…

Moussa Faki Mahamat was on Monday sworn in as the chairperson of the African Union Commission for a second term following his re-election on Saturday. Mahamat, who ran unopposed, garnered the support of 51 out of 55 states during the…