Genocide: CNN details how Tanzania president masterminded extrajudicial killing of youth, dumping bodies in mass graves
Additionally, satellite images and videos show recently disturbed soil consistent with reports of mass graves in the Kondo cemetery, north of the East African country’s main city of Dar es Salaam. Two human rights groups and witnesses interviewed by CNN say the bodies of protesters killed in the past few weeks have been buried there.
Editors renew calls for journalist protection, reforms in tandem with rapid technological growth
The forum cited recent incidents during which more than 20 journalists were injured while covering protests, with some deliberately targeted. Cases such as that of Catherine Njeri, who was shot while on duty and the unresolved disappearance of journalist Eric Isina were highlighted.
Kenyan civil societies want independent probe by ICC of election atrocities in Tanzania
Scores went missing, prompting fears that they may have been killed by the political bodies dumped in mass graves as may be the case with hundreds – civil society allege thousands – with Tanzanians suspected to have been buried in unidentified graves.
‘If we imagine poor countries can fund own transition while drowning in debt and climate disasters, we’re facing collective collapse’
A lack of money also affected the humanitarian presence at COP30, with fewer numbers attending than previous recent summits, a consequence of the deep cuts that have rocked the aid sector this year.
Eastern Congo’s triple tragedy: Pro-state militia in Uvira is as atrocious as M23 rebels and national army
With more than 700,000 inhabitants and sitting on the border with Burundi, Uvira is the last major stronghold of the Congolese government in South Kivu – one of two provinces that the M23 and Rwandan troops are currently occupying.
Lobby raises red flag over rise in pollution in Kenya despite ban on single-use plastics
An environmental lobby group wants Kenya government to shield the country from adverse effects of using single-use plastics. Speaking in Nairobi during the launch of Refill and Reuse Festival to Single-Use Plastics Festival last week, Greenpeace Africa Project Officer Hellen Dena said the country needs to transition to sustainable packaging...
Africa challenges rich world to walk the talk in fight against climate as it hosts its first G20 summit
Rich countries agreed at last year’s United Nations climate summit to pool at least $300 billion a year by 2035 to help developing countries deal with the impacts of climate change and weather disasters. But independent experts said much more – an estimated $1 trillion a year – was needed by 2030.
Kenya rolls out national Ultra-Poor Graduation Strategy to address extreme poverty
Speaking during the launch, Principal Secretary for Social Protection and Senior Citizens Affairs Joseph Motari hailed the initiative as a transformative step in Kenya’s fight against extreme poverty.
Trouble with Nigeria: State negligence created terror mobs that in turn fuelled political and economic crises
In the northeast, Boko Haram jihadi extremists and, more recently, an Islamic State-backed breakaway faction have since 2009 waged an insurgency to enforce their brutal interpretation of Shariah. In 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls – mostly Christian, but some Muslim – from a school in Chibok, in Borno State.
Human rights groups read ethnic cleansing in Gaza after charter flight lands in South Africa with 150 Palestinians
The Israeli authority responsible for implementing civilian policies in the Palestinian territories said the Palestinians on the chartered plane to South Africa left the Gaza Strip after it received approval from a third country to receive them as part of an Israeli government policy allowing Gaza residents to leave. It didn’t name the third country.
