Kenyan police arrest 58 illegal Ethiopian migrants in Kitengela town as human trafficking surges
More than 100 Ethiopians were arrested last year as the lucrative human trafficking trade along the porous border continues to thrive.
Complicity or ignorance: Media accused of failing to cover powerful testimony of people injured by Covid vaccines
Commenting on her testimony, Campbell asked, “How on earth can a clinician adjudicate someone is only 59 per cent disabled? Why not 58? Why not 61? How can you be 59 per cent disabled? I don’t understand that. I simply don’t understand it.”
Attempts to assure Goma residents of peace and security by Rwanda-backed rebels received with scepticism
The UN and aid groups have expressed concern about the safety of the displaced people in Goma. Before it was captured by the rebels, the city was a critical humanitarian hub that hosted many of the more than 6 million people displaced by conflict in the region.
US foreign aid freeze cripples world hunger efforts as President Trump slashes, reshapes American public spending
US-provided cash assistance intended to help people buy food and other necessities in Sudan and Gaza also has been halted, aid workers. So has funding for volunteer-run community kitchens, an American-supported effort in Sudan to help feed people in areas inaccessible to traditional aid, these people said.
‘Immense mess’: Italy defies ICC warrants of arrest for Libyan warlord wanted for war crimes
Al-Masri was arrested in Turin on the ICC warrant on January 19 at 9:30am, the day after he arrived in the country from Germany to watch a soccer match. The Italian government has said Rome’s court of appeals ordered him released January 21 because of a technical problem in the way that the ICC warrant was transmitted, having initially bypassed the Italian justice ministry.
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels capture Nyabibwe city, 100km away from Bukavu in eastern Congo
Neighbouring Uganda also has deployed soldiers inside Congo, with hundreds in Ituri province in the northeast since 2021 to fight the Allied Democratic Forces, another armed group, with the authorisation of Congo’s president. Col Deo Akiiki, deputy spokesman for the Ugandan military, says there had been no new deployments of soldiers to Congo in recent weeks.
Seven months after public protests over taxes and appetite for borrowing, Kenya’s extravagant regime is in talks with IMF for new loans
The decision by the administration of US President Donald Trump to freeze foreign aid could hit Kenya hard as it lacks the fiscal space to replace the funding, Mbadi said, adding that he hoped the United States would reconsider.
UN Multinational Security Support mission faces crunch as US freezes funding for fighting Haiti’s gangs
The Trump administration has not yet said whether it supports making the MSS a UN mission, and China and Russia have opposed doing so.
World’s authoritarian regimes revel in Trump’s foreign aid freeze, term affected Washington allies ‘disposable tissue’
In Venezuela, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, the main enforcer of the ruling socialist party’s security apparatus, boasted last week on state TV that the aid channelled by USAID to the opposition was a “black box of corruption” that he vowed to investigate. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on X that he hopes the “notorious Deep State doesn’t swallow” Musk for pulling the plug on the agency.
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces hit open market in Omdurman, kill 54 people and scores suffer injuries
Sudan’s Doctors Syndicate said one mortar shell hit metres (yards) away from al-Naw Hospital, which received most of the market casualties. Chris Lockyear, secretary general of the Doctors Without Borders aid group, was at the hospital when casualties started arriving.
