BUNIA (DR Congo), June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nine civilians, five of them children, were killed late Tuesday in the eastern DR Congo province of Ituri, where some 1,000 civilians have been massacred since late 2017, local sources said. The killing was the latest attributed to an ethnic militia called CODECO,…

HARARE, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Zimbabwe’s top security officials on Wednesday made a surprise dismissal of “rumours” of an imminent coup, two years after veteran leader Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military-backed take over. A special national security working council which includes military and police chiefs, blamed opposition politicians,…

UNITED NATIONS, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The International Criminal Court called for Sudanese war crimes suspects to turn themselves in, just a day after longtime fugitive militiaman Ali Kushayb surrendered to The Hague. ICC lawyer Fatou Bensouda said during a United Nations Security Council videoconference that Kushayb — who is…

Many English-speaking people complain of being treated like second-class citizens YAOUNDE, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) —  Cameroon’s conflict with English-speaking separatists has been rated as the most neglected crisis in the world for the second year running by the Norwegian Refugee Council. The West African nation’s English-speakers are fighting for autonomy…

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa KHARTOUM, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Water and Irrigation ministers from Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia on Tuesday resumed negotiations over the filling of the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile. “The meeting discussed…

Conflict between rebels and pro-government militias began in 2003 KHARTOUM, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A leader of Sudan’s Janjaweed militia, which fought a war in the western Darfur region in early 2000, is in the custody of the International Criminal Court (ICC).The ICC said Ali Kushayb surrendered voluntarily in the…

LILONGWE, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The health authorities in Malawi’s northern city of Mzuzu say 158 people have received treatment for various injuries they suffered following a stampede that ensued when thousands of mostly young people reported for government job interviews. The health ministry announced that it was hiring hundreds…

Fishermen working on the Lake Kivu in Goma KINSHASA, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Eighteen people drowned when two boats capsized in separate incidents in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), officials said. The accidents happened overnight on Sunday in Lake Albert, which is shared by the DRC and Uganda,…