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The head of the UN refugee agency, Filippo Grandi, condemned Britain’s plans to send a first flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda on Tuesday, saying the policy set a catastrophic precedent. He said other countries who took in far more asylum seekers than Britain could decide to follow its example. …

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused the Rwandan army of invasion after allegedly helping rebels take over Bunagana, a border town in North Kivu province. The Congolese M23 rebels took over the town on Monday after forcing some government soldiers to flee to neighbouring Uganda, media reported. In …

Ukraine has lost a quarter of its cultivable land due to the Russian occupation of certain regions, in the south and east, its Ministry of Agriculture announced on Monday. “Despite the loss of 25% of cultivable land, the structure of the crops sown this year is more than sufficient to …

An Indian couple divorced after the man accused his wife of only cooking the same meal in the morning, noon and evening. Indeed, on May 27, an Indian judge named ML Raghunath spoke at a press conference in Mysuru, the second largest city in the state of Karnataka in southwestern …

Armed men killed at least 100 civilians in a rural district of northern Burkina Faso close to the border with Niger over the weekend, Reuters agency citing security source. According to the soucrces, the attackers targeted men but appeared to spare women and children in Seytenga district on Saturday night. …

Heavy taxes imposed by al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab group in parts of Somalia are making it impossible for farmers to cultivate crops amid a severe drought. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s special envoy for the drought situation, said the al-Shabab taxes were forcing farmers to flee their farms and homes. …

A Tunisian military court has ordered arrest of journalist Salah Attia for claiming the army refused orders from the president to shut down the headquarters of the powerful Union Generale Tunisienne du Travail (UGTT). Mr Attia told the Qatari channel Al-Jazeera on Saturday that President Kais Saied asked the military …

A military truck heading towards Bawku from Bolgatanga ran through some residents of Zebilla in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region, Saturday evening leaving one dead and others with life-threatening injuries, local media reported. Senyalah Castro, a local journalist said the military truck was “going at top …

Gunmen abducted at least 29 people in Zamfara state in northwestern Nigeria as they were returning home from a wedding ceremony, local media reported, citing the police. The victims were mostly mobile phone dealers from a popular market in Gusau, the Zamfara state capital – who had attended the wedding …

Missing Zimbabwean opposition activist Moreblessing Ali has been found in a well in the country’s capital, Harare, ending a widely publicized search, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has said. She was reported missing following an argument with a former boyfriend, Pius Jambo. Mr Jambo, described by the CCC as …