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Africa: Transnational Repression By Rwanda

[ad_1] Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing of February 15, 2024 Testimony of Lewis Mudge, Central Africa Director, Human Rights Watch Since the genocide, which devastated the country and claimed more than half a million lives in 1994, Rwanda has made great strides in rebuilding its infrastructure, developing its economy, and delivering public services. But civil and political rights remain severely curtailed, and freedom of expression is tightly restricted. Those who dare to criticize government policy or President Paul Kagame […]

todayFebruary 16, 2024

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Millions of donkeys killed each year to make medicine

[ad_1] Ejiao producers used to use skins from donkeys sourced in China. But, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs there, donkey numbers in the country plummeted from 11 million in 1990 to just under two million in 2021. At the same time, Ejiao went from being a niche luxury to become a popular, widely available product. [ad_2] Source link

todayFebruary 16, 2024

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Senegal: Top court overturns election postponement

[ad_1] Senegal’s Constitutional Council has ruled that the postponement of the February 25 presidential vote was unlawful. The country’s parliament in an unprecedented move voted to back President Macky Sall’s decision to delay the vote until December. That delay further extends Sall’s mandate but on Thursday the top court said the move was not in line with the constitution. Opposition presidential candidates and lawmakers last week filed legal challenges to […]

todayFebruary 16, 2024

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Amanda Dlamini: Former South African player on ground-breaking Afcon commentary role in Ivory Coast

[ad_1] Dlamini's sports career may have been on the football pitch but growing up in KwaZulu-Natal province she competed in many sporting codes and wanted to become a sprinter.Economic hardship hindered her pursuit of that dream and instead turned her attentions to football. "I was a sprinter [over] 100m, 200m and 400m but a lack of resources back in the rural areas hampered my progress into athletics," the former midfielder […]

todayFebruary 16, 2024

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Africa Progresses in Anti-Corruption Fight, Development . . . As US Slides Back Into More Vice

[ad_1] The current crop of African leaders has done a lot to fight corruption and those efforts should be commended while the assertion by US Government that Africa is getting more and more corrupt should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves. In Africa, current leaders have embraced anti-corruption drives and more and more senior government officials have been arrested, tried, convicted and jailed, others have been fined or fired. African governments have put in place anti-corruption institutions in their […]

todayFebruary 16, 2024

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Africa: Behind the Baobab Curtain – Putin’s Adventures Are Reshaping Africa

[ad_1] West Africa is now separated into two blocs with antagonistic ideologies, allied with foreign sponsors on opposite sides of the geopolitical divide. Vladimir Putin's neocolonial adventures in Africa are unlikely to appear on the agenda as an example of "modern neo-colonialism practice" at the forum in Moscow this week to be attended by ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula and a delegation from his party. Russia does not like to draw attention to its imperial meddling in African affairs, and many […]

todayFebruary 16, 2024

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