M23 rebels kill 29 civilians in DR Congo since mid-June: Human Rights Watch
The other deaths took place in subsequent attacks on the same village and in the hamlets of Ruseke and Kabindi, taking the death toll to 29, HRW said.
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Myanmar villagers accuse junta troops of massacre
Over 2,100 people have been killed in the junta’s crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring group.
Sri Lanka troops demolish main protest camp
Wickremesinghe himself was elected by legislators on Wednesday to replace Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled to Singapore and resigned after demonstrators chased him from his palace.
Kenya: Wanaotafuta kazi mawindo rahisi kwa walaghai mtandaoni
Matangazo mengi ya nafasi za ajira zina dalili zinazofanana: zina makataa mafupi, huahidi mishahara mikubwa na mara nyingi hujumuisha kiungo kwenye jukwaa la nje la mtandao linaloomba maelezo ya kibinafsi.
Mali expels spokesman of UN peacekeeping mission
Malian colonels angry at the government’s handling of the insurgency seized power in August 2020 and carried out another coup in May 2021.
Malawi police arrest 76 after day of protests
The police and protestors faced off in the townships of Area 36, Area 23 and Falls Estate after demonstrators blocked the main road with burning tyres.
Amnesty urges probe into ‘horrific’ ethnic massacre in Ethiopia
The attackers unleashed a campaign of summary executions of ethnic Amhara, while also looting and burning homes, in claims corroborated by satellite imagery which showed evidence of fires breaking out in the area, Amnesty said.
Kenya rejects blame over Omanyala US visa debacle
Kenyan authorities have rejected blame over a US visa hitch that may have robbed African 100-metre champion Ferdinand Omanyala of a chance of a medal at the World Championships in Oregon.
Many in Kenya were outraged when the country’s 26-year-old sprint star secured a US visa only at the last-minute, meaning he landed in Oregon just a few hours before his heat last Friday.
Omanyala, currently the third fastest man in the world, made it through the heats but could only manage fifth place in the semi-finals.
Athletics Kenya chief Jackson Tuwei said the organisation had engaged an external firm to process the visa applications for the contingent of athletes and officials heading to Oregon.
While a number of athletes received their visas on July 8, Omanyala’s passport was not released as the embassy required further information from him, Tuwei said in a statement late on Monday.
“Neither the (sports) ministry nor Athletics Kenya could intervene because the required processes by the embassy had to be undertaken individually,” he said.
A magnanimous Omanyala — who ran a time of 9:77 in September to win the crown of fastest man in Africa — had said after finally securing his visa that “there is no-one to blame here”.
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But former Kenyan government spokesman Ezekiel Mutua said Omanyala should have been accorded diplomatic treatment.
“The US visa delay controversy for our 100m sensation Ferdinand Omanyala should be an international relations matter,” he said on Twitter.
“A sportsman of Omanyala’s calibre should be treated like a diplomat and accorded such honour. He cannot just be stranded in a visa matter like a commoner.”
Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui, who had been expected to compete in the 10,000m, failed to even get to Oregon because of a similar visa issue.
“The (sports) ministry should have fought for me as well if they indeed intervened for Omanyala. I was left on my own,” said Chepkirui, who is set to travel to the English city of Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games starting next week.
Tuwei meanwhile also branded media allegations that people other than Kenya’s 45 athletes and other support staff had travelled to Oregon as “false and unsubstantiated”.
Police have confirmed they are investigating the claims, which mirror another scandal that engulfed Kenyan athletics at the Rio Olympics in 2016, when so-called “joyriders” were allowed to travel with the Kenya team.
Former sports minister Hassan Wario was convicted in September last year of abuse of office and the misappropriation of 55 million shillings ($460,000) over the scandal.
The charges covered allegations of embezzlement, the purchase of unauthorised air tickets, overpayment of allowances and expenditure on unauthorised persons.
DR Congo leader’s brother-in-law accused of stealing church land
In 2019 “a group of people” came to the land, part of a larger church plot which hosts a major seminary, and wrongfully claimed to own it, he added during a press conference at the contested site
South Africa arrests 13 police officers over lockdown violence
Police violence during the pandemic confinement, triggered national outrage and some protests in 2020, with rights groups reporting an increase in the use of lethal force.
