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The United Nations has underlined its unwavering commitment to the Palestinian people in their ongoing struggle to achieve self-determination, independence and sovereignty. Senior officials joined ambassadors and other representatives from the international community in New York on Wednesday to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, officially observed each year on 29 November. Established in 1977, it marks ...

Ernest Bai Koroma has arrived in Namibia to lead the African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM). The Mission comprises 40 Short Term Observers (STOs) representing various Member States of the African Union (AU), deployed since 21 November 2019. The delegation consists of members from the African Union Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC), Pan-African Parliament (PAP), African Election Management Bodies, Civil Society ...

A submarine loaded with more than 2,000kg (4,409lb) of cocaine has been seized in Spain, police sources say. They say two people were held after the vessel ran aground off Galicia’s coast in the north-west. A third person fled. They all are said to be from Ecuador. Spanish media report that the submarine was from Colombia and police are trying ...

The office of Egypt’s last major independent media outlet has been raided by plainclothes security officers, its editors say. On Facebook, Mada Masr said laptops and phones were confiscated and three staff members briefly arrested. Despite being blocked in Egypt since 2017, the website is accessible in the country via virtual private networks. The authorities have not commented. There has ...

Pan-African e-commerce giant Jumia has suspended its marketplace business in Cameroon. Jumia did not publicly announced it imminent closure in the country and the move took many customers and local staff by surprise. “It came as a bombshell and all operations just stopped abruptly,” a Yaounde-based staff member, who asked not to be named, said. The company that has positioned itself ...

A lawyer has died after she was hit by a bullet when a gun, which was being used in court as evidence, went off by accident in KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa, police say. Adelaide Ferreira-Watt succumbed to her wounds just hours after the bullet from the shotgun hit her in the hip. The gun went off as it was ...

Liberia is said to be making headway in implementing reforms to attract new investments to build the nation. This move is predicated on a government which is burnt on changing the narrative which is aimed at boosting its economy and overcome challenges like high inflation, exchange risk volatilities, health challenges, bad roads among others. George Weah, President of Liberia at ...

A convicted internet fraudster has been placed under investigation in Nigeria for allegedly masterminding a “mega scam” from a maximum-security prison worth at least $1m (£773,000). Anti-corruption officials said Hope Olusegun Aroke used a “network of accomplices” for the fraud. He was arrested in 2012 and has been serving a 24-year sentence at the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison. But a ...

Up to 90% of Tanzania’s biggest city is not connected to the sewage system, a joint report released on World Toilet Day has found. It says Dar es Salaam’s four million residents largely rely on the services of a band of illegal workers known as “frogmen” to deal with human waste. This group of clandestine night workers, who are predominantly ...

The High Court in Kenya has dismissed a petition seeking to increase prisoners’ wages. Three ex-inmates filed the petition four years ago, arguing that current prison laws deprived them of basic human dignity and subjected them to slavery. Kenyan prisoners currently earn less than $1 (£0.78) a year – something that has not been revised since 1979. They make a ...