Britain to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing
14 Apr

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to move on from the uproar caused by his Covid-19 lockdown fine by announcing a plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda to be processed.
#britain #borisjohnson

South Sudan food insecurity likely to rise, UN agency says

Intensified intercommunal clashes in the Abyei Administrative Area (AAA) in South Sudan between February and March led to the displacement of up to 100 000 people, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has said.
#southsudan #un

Zimbabwe deports DRC refugees who allegedly looted food at refugee camp

The Zimbabwean government deported about 70 refugees back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in violation of international humanitarian law, the United States Embassy in Harare said. Officials rounded up 80 refugees who were alleged to have looted food rations from the Tongorara Refugee Camp's warehouse and put them in a Harare prison. Ten were found not guilty and the rest were deported.
#zimbabwe #harare #tongorara

Botswana to translocate 500 elephants to Mozambique

Two years after pledging 500 elephants to Mozambique as a gift, Botswana says the animals are set to be translocated in the near future. This was revealed by President Mokgweetsi Masisi during a three-day state visit by Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi that ends on Good Friday.
#botswana #filipenyusi

Ivory Coast PM and government resign

Ivory Coast's prime minister resigned on Wednesday and a new "streamlined" government will take shape next week, President Alassane Ouattara announced. Speaking at the opening of outgoing Prime Minister Patrick Achi's last cabinet meeting, Ouattara said he had accepted the government's resignation and would "from next week appoint a new prime minister who will come to me to propose a streamlined government."
#ivorycoast

Namibia's youngest MP challenges the president to take a salary cut

The youngest parliamentarian in Namibia, Inna Koviao Hengari, 26, has challenged President Hage Gottfried Geingob, 80, and other African leaders to take salary cuts or go without, like some of their peers on the continent.
#namibia #innakoviao #hagegottfried

Forces are 'disrupting' insurgency in Mozambique - but fight is not over, says SANDF chief

South Africa's military chief said Wednesday that multinational forces had been able to "disrupt" jihadist rebels in northern Mozambique since their deployment there last year.
#southafrica #mozambique

Seven police officers, 4 soldiers die in Niger attacks

Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the country's borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said Wednesday.
#niger #libya #burkinafaso

Egyptian activist takes British nationality in campaign against detention

The family of one of Egypt's most prominent human rights activists, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, said on Monday he had obtained British citizenship as part of a campaign to win his release from prison and spotlight the plight of fellow detainees.
#abdelfattah #egyptianactivist

Millions of Somalis at risk of famine: UN agencies

Millions of people in Somalia are at risk of famine, with young children the most vulnerable to the worsening drought in the troubled Horn of Africa nation, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.
#somalis #famine