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Polisario prepares another violation of UN-brokered ceasefire in Sahara again

Few weeks after being rebuked in a UN Secretary General’s report for obstructing the functioning of the UN mission in the Sahara, the Polisario prepares for yet another blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement east of the berm putting the peace process in front of a new test. Antonio Guterres urged in a report on […]

Amnesty 2023 report: Africa’s ‘limited progress’, ‘grim picture’ in some nations

Amnesty International’s 2023 report titled “State of the World’s Human Rights” says that Africa, on the whole, continues to make progress toward respect for individual rights from speech to political association, though it paints a grim picture of Southern Africa, highlighting troubling abuses in Eswatini, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Africa has shown “limited […]

EU warns Kenya over grand corruption, but overall Africa makes progress

The European Union has threatened to blacklist Kenya over corruption and money laundering, with the bloc’s Ambassador to Kenya warning that the east African country’s reluctance to curb corruption and money laundering could scare off investors. The EU is revisiting an old problem Nairobi has struggled to contain and if there is no substantial progress […]