2024-07-31 21:40:49
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After a historic trial that lasted nearly two years, former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara was sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity for his responsibility for the massacres in Guinea on September 28, 2009. According to a report by a UN-mandated commission, at least 156 people were killed and hundreds injured during the crackdown on an opposition rally at a stadium in Conakry on September 28, 2009. At least 109 women were raped.
Sudan’s army commander and de facto leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan escaped on Wednesday after a drone attack on a base in civil war-torn eastern Sudan and ruled out negotiations with paramilitary forces.
The UN Security Council lifted an arms embargo on the Central African Republic territory, a “diplomatic victory” for Bangui, which denounced the sanctions as “unjust” even though government troops have been excluded for a year. “This diplomatic victory is the first step to restore the dignity of the Central African Republic and its people,” CAR Foreign Minister Sylvie Baipo-Themon commented after the vote.
Two people were killed in a demolition and eviction operation in an area of Abidjan last week, a spokesman for Ivory Coast’s ruling party said on Wednesday. Last week, clashes broke out between police and residents in the working-class neighborhood of Adjame village, where construction equipment destroyed homes and businesses as a result of a road being built.
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