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January 28, 2024
Somali Pirates Hijack Sri Lankan Trawler

COLOMBO - Suspected Somali pirates have boarded and hijacked a Sri Lankan fishing trawler with six crew in the latest attack against shipping in the Indian Ocean, Colombo's navy said Sunday.
January 27, 2024
Thousands March Against Gaza 'Genocide' in Spain, Holocaust Remembered in Germany

MADRID/ BERLIN - Around 20,000 people marched in Madrid Saturday in support of Palestinians, a day after the UN's top court said Israel must prevent genocidal acts in its war with Hamas. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Germans turned out across the country on Saturday to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, just days after a string of protests against right-wing extremists.
January 27, 2024
Bosnian Jews and Muslims Call for Peace on Day of Holocaust Remembrance

SREBRENICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina--Jewish and Muslim dignitaries launched a passionate appeal for peace on Saturday from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as deadly fighting rages in the Gaza Strip.
January 27, 2024
Women March Against Femicide in Kenya

NAIROBI - Several hundred people marched in Nairobi on Saturday to protest against femicide in Kenya where over a dozen women have been killed this month in cases that shocked the nation.
January 27, 2024
Lagos Bans Use of 'Non-degradable' Containers

LAGOS - Nigerian authorities in Lagos, Africa’s most populous city, this week announced that they plan to ban the usage of styrofoam boxes and single-use plastics “with immediate effect.”
January 26, 2024
Georgia Legislators Pass Bill Defining Antisemitism

ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers in a show of support for Israel have given final passage to a bill to define antisemitism in state law, sending it to the governor for his expected signature.
January 26, 2024
Charges Dropped Against Top Human Rights Lawyers in Zimbabwe

HARARE - Zimbabwean authorities on Friday dropped charges against two leading human rights lawyers who were arrested in September after objecting to police questioning their clients in hospital.
January 26, 2024
Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister Replaced as Ruling Party VP, State Media Reports

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Ethiopia’s long-serving Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen was dropped Friday as vice-president of the country's ruling party, state media reported, raising doubts about his future role in the government.
January 25, 2024
Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Leaves Party

HARARE - Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa on Thursday announced his resignation from his party a few months after losing his bid for presidency, decrying "intimidation and violence" by the regime.
January 25, 2024
Blinken Lauds Regional Diplomacy in Efforts to Calm DRC Conflict

LUANDA. Angola - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday voiced hope for greater diplomacy to bring lasting peace to the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east following the vast country's elections.
January 25, 2024
Farmer-Herder Clashes Kill 55 in North-Cental Nigeria

JOS, Nigeria - Fifty-five people died in a day of renewed violence in Nigeria's north-central Plateau State where clashes between Muslim herders and Christian farming communities erupted, according to community leaders and a Red Cross report on Thursday.
January 25, 2024
Suspect in Deadly South African Fire in Court

JOHANNESBURG — A Johannesburg man who admitted to setting fire to a crowded illegally occupied housing block to cover up a killing was charged Thursday with arson and the murders of 76 people.
January 25, 2024
Burkina Faso Army Drones Kill Civilians, Says Rights Group

NIAMEY — Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused the Burkina Faso army of killing at least 60 civilians in drone strikes which the government said targeted jihadist fighters.
January 25, 2024
British Museums to Return Royal Artifacts to Ghana

ACCRA — The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum will give back gold and silver artifacts looted during colonial times from Ghana's Asante royal court, the museums and the palace said on Thursday.
January 25, 2024
Mass Graves Still Being Unearthed 30 Years After Rwanda Genocide

NGOMA, Rwanda - The discovery of mass graves are remarkably frequent even three decades after the 1994 slaughter instigated by the Hutu extremist regime in Rwanda at the time. The United Nations estimates around 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi minority, were killed over 100 days in an ethnic pogrom that turned neighbor on neighbor in the tiny east African nation.
January 24, 2024
Zimbabwe Court Convicts Opposition MP of 'Incitement to Violence'

HARARE - Prominent former Zimbabwean opposition parliamentarian Job Sikhala, who has already been in jail for one-and-a-half years, was convicted Wednesday of inciting public violence.
January 24, 2024
Ghana Court Sentences Six Coup Plotters to Death

ACCRA - Six Ghanaians, including three soldiers, were convicted on Wednesday and sentenced to death by hanging for their involvement in an alleged plot three years ago to overthrow the country's government.
January 24, 2024
More Than 70 Die in Mali Gold Mine Collapse

BAMAKO - More than 70 people have been killed after a tunnel collapsed at a Malian gold mining site last week, local sources told AFP Wednesday, the latest disaster in a region prone to mining accidents.
January 24, 2024
Five Civilians Killed by Islamic Militants in DRC

BENI - An attack blamed on militants linked to the Islamic State group in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed five civilians, local sources said on Wednesday.
January 24, 2024
Blinken Calls on Congress to Renew AIDS Support for Africa

LAGOS - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a visit to Africa called on Congress to overcome an impasse and reauthorise a major two-decade plan against HIV/AIDS, saying lives were at stake.

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