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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Global consumers purchasing teak may be fuelling conflict in South Sudan, a research group said on Tuesday, warning that armed groups are benefiting from an unregulated logging trade worth tens of millions of dollars. Washington-based research group … Continue reading Unregulated teak trade fuelling South Sudanese violence -report
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan court granted bail on Wednesday to the Nairobi County governor charged with multi-million dollar corruption in one of the most high profile cases in the government’s anti-graft push. Prison and police officers keep watch over … Continue reading Kenyan court grants bail to Nairobi governor charged with corruption
Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks on the second day of hearings in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands … Continue reading Myanmar’s Suu Kyi: Gambia’s genocide case at World Court misleading
CLAREMONT, Calif. (Reuters) – A Methodist church in Southern California has turned a classic Christmas tradition – the Nativity scene depicting the birth of Jesus – into a statement about immigration by putting the Holy Family in cages. The United … Continue reading Church nativity scene depicts Holy Family as caged refugees
LONDON (Reuters) – The son of Angola’s veteran ex-president faced corruption charges before the country’s supreme court in a trial which opened on Monday, state news agency ANGOP said, the most high-profile case yet under the government’s anti-corruption drive. Jose … Continue reading Angolan ex-president’s son on trial in rare corruption case
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at the U.N.’s International Court of Justice on Tuesday to defend her country over charges of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority, as back home thousands of people rallied … Continue reading As Suu Kyi looks on, Gambia asks UN judges to stop genocide in Myanmar
Model Lily Cole listens to a hunger striker outside Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London, Britain December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner LONDON (Reuters) – British model and actress Lily Cole on Monday visited two elderly climate change activists from the Extinction … Continue reading British model Lily Cole backs climate change hunger strikers
Nairobi’s Governor Mike Sonko sits in a court room during a hearing after he was arrested on corruption-related charges, at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi, Kenya. December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi NAIROBI (Reuters) – Police in the Kenyan capital … Continue reading Kenyan police seal off court as Nairobi governor set to face graft charges
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s prime minister said on Sunday Khartoum had reduced the number of troops it has in Yemen from a peak of 15,000 to 5,000, confirming a drawdown in a conflict which he said could not be solved … Continue reading Sudan says it has reduced troops in Yemen to 5,000
GISENYI, Rwanda (Reuters) – An Ebola survivor has fallen ill with the disease for a second time in eastern Congo, the Congolese health authorities said on Sunday, saying it was not yet clear if it was a case of relapse … Continue reading Congo authorities say Ebola survivor falls ill a second time
(Reuters) – The U.S. military believes that an unarmed American drone reported lost near Libya’s capital last month was in fact shot down by Russian air defenses and it is demanding the return of the aircraft’s wreckage, U.S. Africa Command … Continue reading U.S. says drone shot down by Russian air defenses near Libyan capital
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police officers were among those killed when gunmen suspected to be from Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a bus on Friday near the border with Somalia, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s office said on Saturday. The vehicle … Continue reading Kenya police officers among 10 killed in bus attack
