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[ad_1] Yves KaduliYves Kaduli, a Congolese doctor, says he fled his country after being kidnapped and torturedFor the growing number of African asylum seekers and economic migrants in the US, the upcoming presidential election could reshape their entire future.“We deserve safety,” says Dr Yves Kaduli, a 38-year-old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo who lives in the US. "I have a dream that I will defend those that […]

[ad_1] BBCNyakuma and her husband Sunday, who live in a village in South Sudan, struggle to find food due to droughtThe area of land surface affected by extreme drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has revealed.Forty-eight per cent of the Earth’s land surface had at least one month of extreme drought last year, according to analysis by the Lancet Countdown on […]

[ad_1] AFPThousands of Sahrawi people are living in refugee camps in AlgeriaFrance's President Emmanuel Macron has told Morocco's parliament that he believes Western Sahara should be under Moroccan sovereignty, and has pledged to invest French money there.Western Sahara is a territory on the north-western coast of Africa that has been the subject of a decades-long dispute.It was once a Spanish colony, and is now mostly controlled by Morocco and partly […]

[ad_1] Motsepe's team say they started their tenure on the back foot financially, inheriting a deficit of between $40-50m (£30.8-38.5m).The administration was further burdened by having to pay a $50m (£38.5m) settlement fee to French media company Lagardere after Ahmad's regime cancelled the biggest broadcast deal in African football history in 2019.Last week, Caf announced its deficit had fallen to just under $10m (£7.7m) in the 2022-23 financial year - […]