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Uganda: Police crackdown on anti-corruption protest, youth activists defy govt’s threats

Ugandan police forcefully detained dozens of protesters at an anti-corruption rally in the capital city of Kampala on Tuesday (23 July), as people rallied against the government’s corruption, ignoring warnings by police and President Yoweri Museveni. Organizers and participants of a planned march against corruption on Tuesday defied a ban on anti-government protests — inspired […]

UN Climate Summit: Princess Lalla Hasnaa Meets Top UN Executives

Princess Lalla Hasnaa, Chairperson of Mohammed VI Foundation for Environment Protection, met on Monday in New York, separately with Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Mrs. Patricia Espinoza, and UNDP Chief Achim Steiner. The meetings took place on the sidelines of the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit during which Princess […]

Rwanda hails UK high court ruling as ‘positive step’, NGOs see deportations as ‘immoral’

While both the British and Rwandan governments welcomed the UK court giving the green light to the deportation of migrants, who have arrived illegally in the United Kingdom, to the central African country, opposition politicians, charities and other organizations in the UK have condemned the plan. The Rwandan government spokesman Alain Mukuralinda called the ruling […]