here is your latest african news cameroon trump administration accused of exposing asylum seekers
to human rights abusers the trump administration is said to have exposed dozens of cameroonians
who fled their country between 2019 and 2020 to human rights abuses including rape and torture
by unfairly denying the muslim and deporting them cesar new reports human rights watch investigated
the plight of nearly 100 cameroonians expelled from the united states between 2019 and 2021
the group said in 149 page report published that cameroonian authorities detained or imprisoned
at least 39 of those deported from the u.s many without due process or in inhumane conditions
for periods ranging from days to months the salem seekers fled cameroon between 2017 and 2020 as
a result of the conflict in the anglophone region of the country where there's fighting
senegal senegal facilities set to begin covet 19 vaccine production
a new effort in senegal is aiming to fill and address the vaccine manufacturing up in africa
and in turn stop vaccine reliance in the continent senegal and other african
countries that rely on the international community for immunization have repeatedly
run out of supplies on many occasions and scientists in africa are working to change that
last week south african scientists reported that they had successfully replicated the
modena vaccine and the new venture at the pasture institute in dakar is following suit the institute
has partnered with biotech to build a production facility for its modena vaccines east africa
eac council approves democratic republic of congo admission to the east african community
the east african community council of ministers has now approved the admission of the democratic
republic of congo into the regional bloc the council has now directed the eac secretary to
develop a draft roadmap for the integration of the drc into the community and submitted to the
council for consideration the democratic republic of congo's admission process was kicked off by
an application from the democratic republic of congo in 2019 to join the east african community
marking stage one of the admission process at the 18th extraordinary eac heads of state
summit virtual meeting held on 22nd december 2021 and chaired by kenya's president uhuru kenyatta
the six heads of state director the council of ministers to begin negotiations of the
democratic republic of congo in order to pave way for its admission into the east african community
uganda uganda says u.n court order for democratic republic of congo war damages
unfair uganda has protested an order by the un's highest court for it to pay the
democratic republic of congo 325 million dollars in damages over a devastating war two decades ago
the payment fell short of the 11 billion dollars in reparation demanded by king
shasa over a conflict that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of people
the ruling by the international court of justice was the accumulation of a long legal
battle between the neighboring countries over the conflict in 2005 the icj ruled that uganda had
to pay reparations but the two countries never settled on an amount and no money changed hands
south sudan south sudan kingdom restored 117 years after british soldiers killed the last monarch
one of south sudan's oldest monarch has been restored more than a hundred years after the
death of its last monarch king budeo was killed by british colonialist in 1905 but on february
9th budeo day a cultural day agreed upon to be celebrated yearly by the under people of south
sudan to remember honor and celebrate the life of king budeo his great grandson atoroba penie rikito
budeo was installed in his place as a monarch of the azande king budeo was a royal azande leader
and arguably the most prominent person in the recent history of the azander people for an ethnic
group of north central africa they are residents in the central and western parts of south sudan's
equatorial regions ever since his demise in 1905 their zandi kingdom has been without a king until
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