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Kenyan lawyer sued by international justice surrenders to ICC
Kenyan Paul Gicheru has surrendered to the Dutch authorities, while since March 2015 he has been wanted by the ICC, based in the Netherlands.
This lawyer was especially accused by the Court of having witnessed at the time when the current Kenyan Vice President, William Ruto, was prosecuted for crimes against humanity following the 2007-2008 election violence.
The prosecution had denied his charges, but the arrest warrant against Paul Gicheru was still pending.
Despite his arrest warrant, Paul Gicheru did not hide.…
gloomy start to the vanilla export campaign
The vanilla export campaign started a month and a half ago (September 15), but at the moment buyers are not killing with exporters from the Big Island, the world's largest producer of this spice.
After years of high prices and peaked at $ 550 per. Kilo in 2018, the vanilla sector has seen a marked decline since last year. To avoid a sudden drop in prices in this volatile market, the Malagasy government has set a minimum export price of $ 250 per kilo. Despite this price halved compared to 2018, orders are currently few.…
Shooters kill 32 individuals in assaults in western Ethiopia
Gunmen executed 32 individuals and torched greater than 20 homes in a raid on an space in western Ethiopia, a regional administrator mentioned on Monday.
The killings had been carried out on Sunday by an armed group referred to as OLF Shane within the western Wollega zone within the Oromiya area, administrator Elias Umeta advised Reuters.
"We buried 32 of them as we speak. About 700 to 750 individuals had been additionally pushed away from the realm," he mentioned.
OLF Shane cut up from the Oromo…
fatal attack on civilians in the Oromia region
Inter-ethnic violence reaches a new level in Ethiopia. On Sunday, November 1, a massacre claimed the lives of at least 54 people in the western part of the country.
repression continues, several opposition figures arrested
In Tanzania, the opposition called for massive and peaceful protests on Monday, November 2, following the re-election of President Magufuli. She shouts for massive fraud and condemns the multiple arrests in her ranks. This Monday, repression continues.
Tundu Lissu, the biggest opponent and failed presidential candidate, was arrested again this afternoon. According to his lawyer, he was taken to the central police station. Earlier today, Chadema party leader Freeman Mbowe was arrested along with two other officials.…
Al-Shabaab carries out a collection of assaults in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Al-Shabaab militants carried out a collection of assaults over the weekend within the southwest in rising circumstances of insecurity throughout the nation regardless of a non secular effort to dismantle the group that controls massive components of central and southern Somalia within the countryside.
Al-Shabaab swore allegiance to Al-Qaeda in 2010, and since then the group has managed to hold out a number of lethal assaults each in Somalia and throughout the border. Kenya is without doubt one of the…
Somaliland ought to elect its personal voting committee with out FGS enter,
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somaliland must be left to elect its personal voting committee with out the oversight of Somalia's federal authorities, Senate President Abdi Hashi has stated, including that any interference will compromise the end result of the upcoming election.
In a letter dated November 1, 2020, Senate Chief President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble informed them to chorus from appointing them to run the election on behalf of Somaliland, a area claiming to have withdrawn…
Somalia’s cupboard approves a 46% enhance within the 2021 price range to $ 671.8
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's cupboard final Thursday accepted a $ 671.8 million price range for the fiscal yr 2021, a 46 % enhance from the 2020 price range, in one other transfer that reveals a gradual development within the nation's economic system that has been in shambles for many years.
Lately, the price range has been rising because of the enlargement of the economic system after years of reconstruction, which has occurred by successive regimes. For instance, the 2020 price range elevated by virtually 158…
Al-Shabab makes use of a North Korean missile to assault the UN connection in
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia-based Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants used a North Korean missile in an assault on a UN compound in Somalia earlier this yr, the UN knowledgeable panel mentioned, an indication that the 2 events might have arms offers in battle with worldwide conventions.
The militants hardened within the Horn of Africa carried out six assaults close to Aden Adde Worldwide Airport within the Somali capital between February and Might, focusing on closely fortified Halane Base Camp.
Based on the…
Safety forces interact in shootings with militants in
MOGADISHU, Somalia - No less than three individuals have been killed and a number of other others injured on Sunday after al-Shabaab militants attacked intelligence officers within the Somali capital, Mogadishu, police stated.
Captain Hassan Ahmed, a senior police officer, has confirmed to Axadlethat gunmen on bikes opened fireplace on undercover brokers guarding surveillance cameras on the Dabka junction.
"The pre-dawn assault resulted within the deaths of two intelligence brokers and a militant, whereas not less…