A team of UN human rights experts on Thursday called on the international community to take immediate action to avert mass bloodshed in South Sudan, as well as other human rights abuses, as they wrapped up a 10-day visit to … Read More
In her first reaction to the change of government in the Gambia, Mrs. Nymuna Ndure-Darboe, wife of jailed leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), says the defeated Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, “should take responsibility for all crimes committed in … Read More
The dream of former South African President, Nelson Mandela, became a reality on Friday with the opening of a magnificent children’s hospital in Johannesburg. Former deputy chief justice, Dikgang Moseneke, who gave the keynote address at the event, said the … Read More
One of the leading contenders for the African Union chairperson position, Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathily, has strongly argued that public and private economic players must “pull together” to build an “African social base” for the development of the continent. Speaking … Read More
Sudanese police have freed 11 young Somali nationals, comprising eight young women and three boys, from human traffickers in Sudan’s north Kordofan, near the border with Libya. The official Sudan news agency on Tuesday said police at the Jabrat al-Sheikh … Read More
Adama Barrow, who defeated President Yahya Jammeh in the 1 December polls, will become Gambia’s third president, after Sir Dauda Jawara and the incumbent. Barrow, a 7-party coalition candidate in the polls, was declared winner by the independent electoral commission … Read More
Gambia’s dictatorial leader, Yahya Jammeh, on Thursday suffered a shock defeat in the country’s presidential elections, losing to the 7-party coalition candidate Adama Barrow, the electoral commission has said. Electoral commission chief, Alieu Momarr Njai, declared on national television that … Read More
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