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US missionary, Eric Tuininga is sentenced to 10 years after a US court found him guilty of defiling a 14-year-old local girl under his care in Uganda’s eastern district of Mbale, media reported. The missionary, 45, was also ordered to pay $20,000 (£16,000) in restitution to the victim and spend …

One person died in the violent fires that ravaged remote wooded areas of northern Morocco since Wednesday, leading to the evacuation of a thousand families, authorities told AFP on Friday. “The body of a person with multiple burns was found” in one of the fires in the Larache region, according …

The Togolese armed forces on Thursday said they were responsible for a recent explosion that killed seven civilians and injured two others, after mistaking them for jihadists. The explosion occurred in the prefecture of Tône, near the border with Burkina Faso, where a Sahelian jihadist insurgency threatens to spread to …

Former American president Donald Trump announced on his social network Truth Social, the death of his first wife, Ivana Trump at the age of 73. “I am very sad to inform everyone who loved her, and there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New …

Moroccan authorities were on Thursday battling to put out multiple wildfires burning through forests in four provinces in the north amid a heat wave. Hundreds of families have been evacuated “as a precaution” from Larache and Taza provinces, and transport in the areas has been disrupted. No casualties have been …

Southern African Development Community (SADC) agreed on Thursday to extend their troop deployment in Mozambique for another month to help it fight an Islamic State-linked insurgency, Reuters reported. The countries, linked in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), agreed last year to send troops to Mozambique. The mission’s mandate was …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the creation of a “special court” to try “the crimes of Russian aggression against Ukraine”. It comes as Russian strikes killed at least 20 people in a town in central Ukraine. This request took place during a videoconference intervention during an organized by the …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday dismissed the recent World Bank report which classified Uganda as still a low-income country. In a July 1 economic update, the World Bank maintained that Uganda’s per capita gross national income stood at $840 (Shs3.1 million) per annum, according to its data for the …

The United States Medicines Agency on Wednesday authorized Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine for adults 18 and older, providing an additional option for getting vaccinated in the United States, in hopes of helping to convince the reluctant. The vaccine produced by this American company is already available in dozens of other countries. …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Maxim Sobh as the country’s special representative for the Middle East and Africa. The information was published on Tuesday on the Ukrainian Presidency website. “Appointment of Maxim Sobh as special representative of Ukraine for the Middle East and Africa,” the document reads. A great state …