The Johannesburg High Court has sentenced Gerhard Ackerman, a notorious serial offender, to 12 life sentences for his extensive record of sexual crimes against children in South Africa.
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As South Africa grapples with a record unemployment rate of nearly 33%, the United Nations and other experts have warned that this is a "time bomb” that has the potential to cause political instability.
The Community of West African States (ECOWAS), while favoring the path of dialogue, gave the green light to an armed intervention against the soldiers who took power on July 26 in Niger, by activating its " standby force".
The announcement said high-ranking West African politicians and "their international mentors" have made false allegations and attempted to derail a peaceful solution to the crisis in order to justify a military intervention
Economic and financial sanctions have left land-locked Niger with minimal power supply as Nigeria, whose supply accounts for 70 percent of Niger's electricity, has cut off power supply.
Col. Major Amadou Abdramane called the move on Sunday (Aug. 13) "i...
"MINUSMA has anticipated its withdrawal from Ber due to the deterioration of security in the area and the high risks that this poses to our Blue Helmets" ,
Authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out mass arrests of hundreds, even thousands, of people in the capital after deadly unrest in the country's Amhara region, lawyers and witnesses said.
Six soldiers, including the head of the mission, were killed and another was injured, according to the "provisional assessment" of the High Command.
A Moroccan coastal surveillance unit intercepted a boat carrying 130 Senegalese illegal migrants on Saturday when it ran aground off Dakhla in Western Sahara, a Moroccan military source said on Sunday.
After suffering serious injuries early in his stay at Barcelona, Dembele consolidated himself as one of its most irreplaceable players thanks to his speed and playmaking.
