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Riot police scatter protesters with water canons in the Kangemi slum of Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, July 7, 2025
Death toll from Kenya’s latest anti-government protest surges to 31
NAIROBI — The death toll from Kenya’s anti-government protests on Monday has surged to 31, the state-funded human rights commission said on Tuesday.It marks the highest single-day toll since demonstrations began earlier this year. Over 50 people have reportedly been killed over the past two weeks.A further 107 people were injured and more than 500 arrested amid widespread destruction to property, including supermarkets. The arrest figure largely matched with that issued by Kenyan police.The death toll did not specify whether security forces were included.The protests are led by youth and civil society groups and have rocked Kenya for weeks. Driven by anger over police brutality, alleged government corruption and a rising cost of living, many demonstrators have called for the...
July 09, 2025

Death toll from Kenya’s latest anti-government protest surges to 31

There has been a wave of anti-government protests over the past year
Central Nairobi sealed off ahead of Kenyan protests
NAIROBI — Kenya's security forces have blocked all major roads leading into central Nairobi, ahead of planned nationwide protests.Much of the city centre is deserted, with businesses shut and a heavy security presence on the streets. Some schools have advised students to stay at home.Hundreds of early-morning commuters and overnight travellers were stranded at checkpoints, some located more than 10km (six miles) from the city centre, with only a few vehicles allowed through.Within the city, roads leading to key government sites — including the president's official residence, State House, and the Kenyan parliament — are barricaded with razor wire.In a statement issued on Sunday evening, the police said it was their constitutional duty to protect lives and property while...
July 07, 2025

Central Nairobi sealed off ahead of Kenyan protests

Only the Namibian president will be able to confer state funerals - at least until 2026
Namibia halts all state funerals amid criticism of the high cost
WINDHOEK — The Namibian government has announced a temporary ban on state funerals amid criticism over the rising costs of these burials.Only President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has the power to exempt funerals from the moratorium, the government said.Minister of Information and Communication Technology Emma Theofelus made the announcement following a Cabinet meeting earlier this week.She said the moratorium would last until April 2026, while a review committee looks into the "criteria and processes associated with bestowing official funerals".Ms Theofelus told the BBC that a committee consisting of "no more than seven members" would be established to lead the review.The government has not said whether the decision was related to mounting criticism of the increasing...
July 04, 2025

Namibia halts all state funerals amid criticism of the high cost

More than 280 people were sent to hospital after the crush
Crush kills 29 pupils taking exams after blast in Central Africa
BANGUI — Twenty-nine children who were taking their school exams in the Central African Republic have been killed in a crush after a nearby explosion caused panic, a hospital director told the BBC.The blast, on the second day of the high-school finals on Wednesday, occurred at an electricity transformer, said Abel Assaye from the Bangui community hospital."The noise of the explosion, combined with smoke" caused alarm among the almost 6,000 students sitting the baccalaureate at a school in the capital, Bangui, local radio station Ndeke Luka reported.President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has declared a period of national mourning.He also ordered that the more than 280 who were wounded in the crush get free treatment in hospital.Students from five different schools in the capital...
June 27, 2025

Crush kills 29 pupils taking exams after blast in Central Africa

Police fired tear gas and water canons to break up protests
At least eight killed and hundreds hurt as Kenya protesters battle police
NAIROBI — At least eight people have been killed and 400 injured as thousands took to the streets in a day of protests across Kenya against President William Ruto's government.Police clashed with protesters in the capital Nairobi and other cities exactly a year on from the wave of deadly anti-government demonstrations that hit the nation in 2024.Many of those demonstrating chanted "Ruto must go" and waved branches as a symbol of peaceful opposition to his rule.The government banned live TV and radio coverage of the protests, but its decree was overturned by the High Court in the capital, Nairobi.Ruto urged protesters not to threaten peace and stability, as crowds tried to reach his official residence but were pushed back by police."Protests should not be to destroy...
June 26, 2025

At least eight killed and hundreds hurt as Kenya protesters battle police

Many hospitals in Sudan - like this one in the capital - have been destroyed by the war
Children among 40 killed in 'appalling' Sudan hospital attack, says WHO chief
KHARTOUM — "Another appalling attack" on a hospital in Sudan has seen more than 40 people killed, many of them children and medics, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said."We cannot say this louder," wrote Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X on Tuesday, "attacks on health must stop everywhere!"Al-Mujlad Hospital was struck on Saturday, and is located in West Kordofan state, close to one of the frontlines where Sudan's warring parties are fighting in the conflict that is now in its third year.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blames its opponents, the Sudanese army, for attacking the hospital, as do two prominent civil society groups, but the army itself has yet to comment on the allegation.Since Sudan's civil war began in April 2023, the...
June 24, 2025

Children among 40 killed in 'appalling' Sudan hospital attack, says WHO chief

Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) is located in Nigeria's southwestern Ogun state.
Nigerian university sparks outrage as staff check whether female students are wearing bras before exams
ABUJA — A Nigerian university is facing backlash after a viral video appeared to show young women who were queuing for exams being checked for whether they were wearing bras before being allowed in.In a short clip that spread quickly on social media, two women seem to be touching the breasts of the women in the queue as they walk past. Students at Olabisi Onabanjo University confirmed to CNN that the video was shot at their school, in Nigeria’s southwestern Ogun state.In the video, one female student appeared to be removed from the queue after one of the women touched her.CNN has not been able to confirm when the video was taken but a student representative at OOU, who defended the school over what he dubbed the “no bra, no entry policy,” said exams began this week.The university...
June 20, 2025

Nigerian university sparks outrage as staff check whether female students are wearing bras before exams

Albert Ojwang's death in police custody about a week ago has caused outrage in Kenya
Kenya's deputy police chief steps aside amid uproar over blogger's death
NAIROBI — Kenya's deputy police chief Eliud Lagat has stepped aside pending the outcome of investigations into the death in detention of blogger Albert Ojwang.Lagat had been under pressure to resign from the opposition and human rights activists as Ojwang was arrested after he filed a complaint, accusing the blogger of defaming him on social media.Police initially said that Ojwang died of self-inflicted wounds, but were forced to retract the statement after an autopsy found that he was likely to have died from assault wounds.Lagat denied any wrongdoing, but said in a statement that he was stepping aside in the "good and conscious thought" of his responsibilities as deputy police chief."I undertake to provide any support that may be required of me during the...
June 17, 2025

Kenya's deputy police chief steps aside amid uproar over blogger's death

Yoweri Museveni
Uganda leader signs new law allowing military trials for civilians
KAMPALA — Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law an amendment that will allow, once again, civilians to be tried in a military court under certain circumstances.A previous law permitting such trials was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in January.Before that ruling, civilians could be taken to a military tribunal if they had been found with military equipment like guns or army uniforms. Activists had complained that the law was used to persecute government critics.Parliamentarians passed the amendment last month amid a heavy police presence and a boycott by opposition lawmakers, who argued that it violated the ruling by the country's highest court.In January, the judges said that the military courts were neither impartial nor competent to exercise...
June 16, 2025

Uganda leader signs new law allowing military trials for civilians

Zambia's former President Edgar Lungu died at the age of 68 in South Africa
Zambian ex-president's family settle funeral row with government
LUSAKA — After days of uncertainty and negotiations, the funeral arrangements for Zambia's former president have been finalised.Edgar Lungu, who led Zambia from 2015 to 2021, died 11 days ago in South Africa where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness.According to his family, he had left instructions that his political rival and current President Hakainde Hichilema "should not come anywhere near his body".But a spokesperson for the Lungu family confirmed that an agreement had been reached with the government that allowed for Hichilema to preside over a state funeral next Sunday.The row caused consternation among some in Zambia with people left wondering how they should mourn their former leader.After days of talks, the Lungu family and the government have...
June 16, 2025

Zambian ex-president's family settle funeral row with government

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