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Mozambican authorities say 158,000 people could be affected by Cyclone Freddy in its epicentre in the central province of Zambezia. The cyclone is expected to make landfall on the coast of central Mozambique late on Friday. Cyclone…

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his first deputy, Riek Machar, are expected to meet on Friday at the State House in the capital, Juba, to discuss the recent dismissal of Defence Minister Angelina Teny. Mr Kiir also swapped the…

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has begun investigations into the alleged maltreatment of more than 200 Nigeria-bound passengers by German airline, Lufthansa Airlines. Local media said the carrier last Friday threatened to call…

Veteran Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Paudel has been elected the Himalayan nation’s third president since a centuries-old monarchy was abolished in 2008. In the two-man race for the largely ceremonial position, the 78-year-old…

Nigeria’s electoral commission says it has postponed by a week the elections to pick new governors, saying it needed more time to reconfigure electronic machines that are at the centre of a highly contested presidential vote last month.…

A bill has been tabled in Uganda's parliament that would criminalise anyone identifying as LGBTQ+. If passed, they would face jail terms of up to 10 years, as would those engaging in same-sex relations. The law would ban the funding or…

The governor of Nigeria's Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has called for people to come forward and donate blood as medics treat those wounded in a collision between a train and bus earlier on Thursday. “It is still a critical period…

Having formed to the north-west of Australia more than 30 days ago, storm Freddy is still going and could end up in the record books for the longest-lasting tropical storm on record. The World Meteorological Organization is currently…

Six people have been confirmed dead after a bus and a train collided in the Nigerian city of Lagos. Seventy-one people were injured, 29 of them critically. The accident happened on Thursday morning during rush hour and both vehicles were…

Panel discussion on the protection of refugees in the Tindouf Camps (Hybrid format) In the framework of the 52nd Ordinary Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the "Geneva International Observatory for Peace and Human Rights"…