France recalled its ambassador to Togo, Jocelyne Caballero, after the diplomat was accused of intimidating and harassing embassy staff. Jocelyne Caballero is no longer France Ambassador to Togo. It comes as the Quai d’Orsay opened a case on July 28 against the ambassador and her collaborator, the first embassy counselor, …
Read More »Uganda: police officers charged for arresting bride on wedding day
Ugandan police officials charged and remanded four officers who stormed a wedding reception over the weekend and arrested the bride for theft, local media reported. The four have been charged for discreditable conduct, which upon conviction, could see them dismissed from the force, police spokesperson Fred Enanga said. Following her …
Read More »“Who Kenyans elect is a matter for the people of Kenya” – UK High Commissioner
UK High Commissioner Jane Marriott has dismissed claims that she and her country interfered in Kenya’s recently-concluded general election, the BBC reported. She was reacting to allegations on social media that she pressured the electoral commission to declare William Ruto as president-elect following the disputed poll. Some users shared unverified …
Read More »Somalia: Heavy toll after hotel attack by gunmen
The attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, by Al-Shabab Islamist militants caused the death of at least 21 civilians, according to a new official report on Sunday. The attack lasted 30 hours until Saturday evening, according to reports. The attack was the bloodiest in Somali Capital since …
Read More »Kenya election: Raila Odinga submits truckload of evidence – report
Kenyan politician Raila Odinga ferried cartons of paperwork in a truck as he filed a legal case challenging the results of the presidential election. A local newspaper has tweeted a picture of the truck arriving at the court building: A truck carrying evidence for Azimio presidential petition arrives at the …
Read More »Kyiv acknowledges deaths of 9,000 of its soldiers in the ongoing war
Authorities in Ukraine acknowledged on Monday that nearly 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the start of the Russian invasion six months ago. Speaking at a forum in Kyiv, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, General Valery Zaluzhny, said Ukrainian children needed special attention because their fathers had gone …
Read More »Singapore: homosexual relations will soon be decriminalized
Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday that his government would repeal the law that criminalizes same-sex relations. Only few days and sex between men won’t be reprehensible anymore in Singapore. Autorities decided to repeal the law that criminalizes homosexuality. It is the Singaporean Prime Minister who gave …
Read More »Mali: another Maïga in place of Choguel Maïga as Prime Minister.
Malian military authorities removed Choguel Kokalla Maïga as Prime Minister and replaced him with the Prime Minister of Territorial Administration, Colonel Aboudoulaye Maïga. According to Le Monde, the new PM Colonel Maïga “is considered close to the leader, Colonel Assimi Goïta. He has become the spokesman of the policy of …
Read More »France: 13 organizations of the Algerian diaspora challenge President Macron
Thirteen Algerian diaspora organizations in a letter urged French President Emmanuel Macron not to ignore issues of “degrading” human rights and not support the Algerian regime, as the president is expected in this North African countries. In this missive, the Algerian diaspora expresses concern about the drift autoritarian and despotic …
Read More »Nigeria: Gunmen kidnap Catholic nuns on highway
Armed men in Nigeria abducted four nuns of the Catholic Church in Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Imo, on a notorious highway, the local convent said. A Catholic priest was also kidnapped last week on the same highway . “The four nuns were on their way to a morning mass on …
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