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03/07/2022

In a remote village in Nepal’s westernmost province, children and women are dying of malnutrition and a lack of health facilities.

02/07/2022

Russian forces destroyed five Ukrainian army command posts in the Donbas and in the Mykolaiv regions with high-precision weapons and also struck three storage sites in the Zaporizhzhia region, says the defence ministry.

02/07/2022

The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv warns residents to stay in shelters as powerful explosions rock the city.

28/06/2022

Nigeria’s High Court has rejected a second application for bail from separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu and ordered him to face trial on November 14 on charges of terrorism and broadcasting falsehoods.

Kanu- who is in jail awaiting trial and denies the charges against him- founded the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in 2014.

The group has been pressing for the secession of a part of southeast Nigeria where the majority of the population belongs to the Igbo ethnic group

27/06/2022

Human Rights Watch has accused Cameroon’s separatists group of killing, ra**ng, terrorizing and kidnaping civilians in Anglophone regions.

Armed separatist fighters have killed at least seven people, injured six others, r***d a girl, and committed other grave human rights abuses since January 2022 the HRW report says.

24/06/2022

Qatar has banned football players and fans from engaging in s*x outside marriage during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. People who break the law risk spending seven years in prison.
Traveling fans have also been told that although alcohol is legal in Qatar, it is strictly forbidden to consume it in public and it is also a crime to be drunk in public. It's the first time the World Cup is being held in the Middle East country.
The matches start on November 21 and end on December 18. What do you make of Qatar's strict rules for football players and fans?

24/06/2022

British police have arrested a Nigerian couple, one of whom is a former Senate politician, on suspicion of plotting to bring a child from Nigeria to the UK for organ harvesting. Metropolitan police said that Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu and Ike Ekweremadu, who are 55 and 60 years old respectively, were arrested and will appear in a UK court today .

The police didn't disclose the age or gender of the child and the location of the arrest. Organ harvesting involves removing parts of the body, often for cash and against the victim's will. In 2017, a former Nigerian government minister claimed that migrants from his country were having their organs taken after being sold into slavery. What steps should be taken by various governments take to stop organ harvesting trade?

22/06/2022

Over 1,000 people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured in southeastern Afghanistan, the country's Culture and Information Department has told Al Jazeera.

22/06/2022

President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria will be more secure and prosperous at the end of his second and final term in 2023 than when he took over in 2015. His comments came is despite worsening unemployment, an increase in school abductions, and train hijackings across the country.

President Buhari says his administration has solved the decades-old conflict between cattle herders and farmers through the National Livestock Transformation Plan, which established ranches and demarcates grazing zones. Is Nigeria in a better condition than in 2015?

22/06/2022

The worst floods in Bangladesh in more than a century have killed dozens of people so far and displaced nearly 4 million people.

22/06/2022

A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of Afghanistan early on Wednesday, killing at least 920 people and injuring 600 others in the deadliest quake in two decades.

22/06/2022

Leaders from Commonwealth countries have begun arriving in Rwanda's capital Kigali for the Commonwealth Business summit. Among those expected to speak are Nigeria's Muhamadu Buhari, whose country faces insecurity and rampant kidnappings.
Uganda and Cameroon will also send a big delegation for the event. Also expected to speak is British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose recent plan to send unwanted asylum-seekers to Rwanda was thwarted at the last minute by the European Court of Human Rights. So what message do you have for the leaders?

21/06/2022

Food and drinking water concerns as floods batter Bangladesh.

21/06/2022

Thousands of students in Sri Lanka march to demand the resignations of President Rajapaksa and PM Wickremesinghe over the country's economic crisis.

21/06/2022

Two Ukrainian journalists are the winners of this year's DW Freedom of Speech Award. Mstyslav Chernov and Evgenij Maloletka were honored at a Global Media Forum event in Bonn, Germany, for their work documenting a powerful story of the siege of Mariupol, a Ukrainian city, by Russian military.

The annual award, launched in 2015, celebrates journalists who have made significant contributions to the promotion of free speech. How would you rate free speech and press freedom in your country?

21/06/2022

Leaders of East African Community member states are meeting later today to discuss the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The meeting takes place as heavy fighting in the east of DR Congo stirs up decades-old animosities, with the DRC blaming Rwanda for the recent resurgence of the M23 rebel group.

Rwanda has denied supporting the rebels on multiple occasions. DRC President Felix Tshisekedi has accused Rwanda of wanting to profit from his country's gold and other minerals. The mineral-rich DRC is battling dozens of armed groups in the country's east, many of which are the result of two regional wars a quarter-century ago. Do you think that such meetings are useful, or the two countries concerned should be allowed to handle their own issues?

21/06/2022

Belgium will today hand over the remains of assassinated Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba to his family, some 60 years after his death. Lumumba, the first prime minister of an independent DR Congo, was executed only a few months after being voted in.

His body was hacked up and his remains dissolved in acid. A Belgium policeman, who had overseen the destruction of Lumumba's body, later revealed he has taken a tooth from Lumumba as a souvenir. Lumumba's family and Congolese authorities are in Belgium for the event.

The tooth will be placed in a box before being placed in a casket and flown to DRC for burial. The handover of the tooth is seen as one step towards reconciliation between DR Congo and Belgium, its former colonizer. Is Belgium doing enough?

21/06/2022

An attack in Ethiopia has left at least 260 civilians dead in the country's Oromia region. Witnesses are blaming a rebel group, Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), for the attack that targeted ethnic Amhara.

The OLA denies being involved in the attack, which took place over the weekend. Speaking to Reuters news agency, two residents gave detailed accounts of how they helped bury corpses in mass graves.

Ethnic tensions political and historical grievances are currently flaring in Ethiopia, home to more than 80 different ethnic groups. The Amhara are the country's second-largest ethnic group and have frequently been targeted in attacks in regions like Oromia. What could be the solution to ending Ethiopia's never-ending ethnic clashes?

21/06/2022

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called Africa "a hostage" of Russia's war during an address to the African Union leaders on Monday.
The invasion and blockade of Ukraine's agricultural exports by Russia have resulted in grain and fertiliser shortages, placing millions of people at risk of hunger.
Moscow rejects accusations it is deliberately blocking grain exports from Ukraine and says global food and fuel price hikes are due to Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the Feb. 24 invasion, which it calls a "special military operation". Do you agree with President Zelensky that Africa is " a hostage" of Russia's war?

20/06/2022

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