2023-05-02 20:35:50
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Leaders of Sudan’s warring army and paramilitary forces agreed to a seven-day truce from May 4-11 in a phone call with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. None of the previous truces was respected. The fighting, which began on April 15, left more than 500 dead, mainly in Khartoum and Darfur, and thousands injured, according to a largely underestimated toll. There are said to be more than 330,000 internally displaced people.
The Tshiani bill continues to be debated in the DRC. This law provides that candidates for the highest offices of the State are born of Congolese father and mother. But this proposal worries. Some compare it to the notion of “ivoirité” at the origin of the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire… The opposition, Monusco, the Catholic Church, many of them denounce this proposal concocted eight months before the presidential election. Details in Kinshasa, Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula.
Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed an amended version of an anti-LGBT+ law that had sparked outrage from many Western NGOs and governments in which it maintained heavy penalties for same-sex relations and the “promotion” of homosexuality. Faced with international outcry, President Yoweri Museveni had asked parliamentarians on April 26 to “re-examine” the text, enjoining them in particular to specify that the “fact of being homosexual” was not a crime but that only sexual relations ‘were.
Six months ago, the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the party of the authorities of the Tigray region who have gone into rebellion, signed a “Cessation of Hostilities Agreement” ending two years of war brutal and murderous. An agreement that put an end to two years of deadly war. If progress is undeniable today, NGOs fear a peace without justice.
What happened to these fishermen in Guinea? A number of them have been hospitalized. The cause: a mysterious skin disease causing rashes and 3rd degree burns. These symptoms could be caused by a chemical agent spilled on the high seas. The authorities who opened an investigation want to be reassuring. Report by Sarah Sakho and Malick Diakité.
Editor: Célia Caracena
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