By Rédaction Africanews A temporary amnesty for undocumented East African migrants in Kenya after the government urged them to formally register at their embassies and further extended their stay in the country. Last week, Kenya’s President William Ruto gave foreign-owned small businesses until Monday to shut down, saying the country “has not built investor confidence for hawkers”. “For the duration of this designated registration period, all individuals undergoing registration will be presumed legally present in the Republic of Kenya,” their statement said. The government further directed that security agencies and local authorities ensure that foreign nationals were not to be…
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A man accused of killing his wife and two daughters in the UK has admitted unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition in South Africa. Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, 42, and her daughters Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, were found with fatal head injuries in Great Denham, near Bedford, on 7 July. Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma, 45, was arrested in Johannesburg after leaving the UK. Local police said he was found with a gun and ammunition he had bought in South Africa. He has appeared before magistrates in the city for a plea hearing. The Crown Prosecution Service in England has authorised…
By Agencies South Africa’s government has turned to the country’s Constitutional Court in a renewed bid to stop the auction in the United States of items once belonging to Nelson Mandela. The four-year legal battle involves 29 objects, including Mandela’s identity card, shirts, writings and a key to his prison cell on Robben Island, where he spent 18 of his 27 years in jail. The country’s heritage agency, SAHRA, and the culture ministry argue the items are part of South Africa’s national heritage and were exported without permission. The auction was first announced in 2021 by New York-based Guernsey’s, but…
Sudan’s fragile health system is on the brink of collapse as global funding cuts have led to the closure of healthcare facilities across the country, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned. Dozens of organisations were unable to find alternative funding after the US – the largest donor to Sudan – closed USAID, its body for delivering foreign aid, last year, the medical charity said. MSF urged world leaders gathering at the UN General Assembly in New York to take action. The war that erupted in April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has created one…
By Rédaction Africanews Tuesday marked a year since Gen Z-led violent protests against widespread corruption in Nepal forced the then prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli to resign. Several people showed up at an event in Kathmandu to honor the memories of those who lost their lives in the protest by offering fruits and flowers. The upheaval began last September, when youth-led protests over corruption and a social media ban spiraled into violence. Security forces opened fire on demonstrators, killing dozens, while government buildings and politicians’ homes were set ablaze. Pratish Shrestha, an injured protester called for help from the Nepal…
Kenya says it will register undocumented Burundians and other East Africans living in the country, following days of anxiety over President William Ruto’s directive targeting foreigners in small-scale businesses. On Monday, hundreds of Burundians scrambled to process travel documents amid uncertainty over whether they could remain in Kenya. Charles Owino, the Kenyan government spokesperson, has now said those without proper documents should register through their embassies or high commissions as the authorities work with diplomatic missions to regularise their status. Those undergoing registration would be presumed legally in Kenya during the process, Owino said. Ruto had set Monday as the deadline…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies A bus crash in Cape Verde has killed at least 25 people, most of them children and teenagers, public radio network RCV said on Sunday. Several others were injured in the accident on Saturday, some of them seriously, according to local authorities on Fogo Island, where the crash took place. The bus was returning to Sao Filipe after an excursion to the Pico do Fogo volcanic crater when it veered off the road and plunged into a deep ravine. Thirty-two people were on board. The driver was among the dead. He organised the excursion to…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has opened an investigation into Uber’s decision to stop its operations in Nigeria. According to the regulator, the probe will focus on whether the company left any outstanding services or responsibilities to customers. The Chief Executive Officer of the FCCPC, Tunji Bello, disclosed the development in an interview with Bloomberg. According to reports, the Commission said it has begun reviewing the circumstances surrounding the ride-hailing company’s departure from the Nigerian market. The investigation will look into how Uber handled its exit and whether customers who had pending issues, payments, services or other…
Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has returned to his country after spending more than two years in Nigeria following the discontinuation of criminal proceedings against him. According to reports, Koroma left Nigeria on Sunday after former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan saw him off before his journey back to Freetown. Koroma had been staying in Nigeria since January 2024 after travelling to the country for medical treatment. His arrival followed his indictment in Sierra Leone over the November 2023 attacks in the capital, Freetown, in which he was accused of treason and other offences. The former president remained in…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Mourners bade farewell to ten-year-old Ayoub Hadaf on Sunday, one day after his body was recovered from a well where he’d been trapped for four days. Draped in the Algerian flag, the coffin of 10-year-old Ayoub Hadaf was carried by civil protection workers during his funeral on Sunday. The young boy died after becoming trapped in a well. “On the day of the accident, he was walking with his brother, who was just ahead of him,” Ayoub’s uncle, Abdelhak Hadef, said on Sunday. “As he walked over the well, which had been covered with earth,…