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Sunday, November 24, 2024
World
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Fighting escalates in Sudan as cases of human rights violations reported
Clashes between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) remained more intense on Sunday, as the conflict in the country’s capital and western regions entered its 12th week. Air and artillery strikes, as...
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OIC condemns Qu’ran burning in Sweden
Nigeria and 56 other countries, members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), have jointly expressed their condemnation of the recent act of burning several pages of the Quran by an Iraqi refugee living...
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Sierra Leone’s main opposition party rejects election results, calls for rerun
Sierra Leone’s main opposition party, the All People’s Congress (APC), has officially rejected the presidential results, alleging “glaring irregularities,” and called for a rerun of the June 24 vote. Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio...
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Human Rights Watch report accuses Burkina Faso’s military of killings, torture
A Human Rights Watch report has accused the Burkina Faso military of terrorizing communities in the country’s northeast this year with instances of arbitrary killings, forced disappearances, and incidents of torture. The violence erupted...
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UN Security Council halts peacekeeping mission in Mali
The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed on Friday to put an end to a decade-long peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West African country’s military junta abruptly ordered the 13,000-strong force to leave....
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UK government vows to go ahead with plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
The UK government says it is committed to ending cross-Channel migrant boats despite a recent court pronouncement that ruled its Rwanda policy to be unlawful. The home secretary, Suella Braverman told MPs she would...
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Sierra Leone election observers identify ‘statistical inconsistencies’ by electoral commission
European election monitors in Sierra Leone said there were “statistical inconsistencies” in the presidential results presented by the electoral commission, which pronounced President Julius Maada Bio the winner of Saturday’s poll. The Mission urged...
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Sierra Leone incumbent president in early lead after Saturday’s election
President Julius Maada Bio is taking an early lead in the Saturday general elections in Sierra Leone, according to the electoral commission. He’s so far received 56% of the half of the ballots while...
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Just in: Wagner didn’t march to overthrow Russia’s leadership — Yevgeny Prigozhin
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has explained why he declared that his men would march on Moscow in a fresh 11-minute audio message released by the head of the group. Mr. Prigozhin is speaking for...
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South Sudan admits 10,000 refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan – UN Humanitarian agency
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said no fewer than 10,000 people have registered as refugees in South Sudan after fleeing the conflict in Sudan. The UN agency also...
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