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- Zimbabwe: constitutional amendments to extend president’s term of office 2 July 2026Zimbabwe’s parliament has approved constitutional amendments that would extend presidential and parliamentary terms from five to seven years; to become law, they await the signature of the president, Emmerson Mnangagwa. The changes would lengthen the president’s current and final constitutionally permitted term until 2030. They would also replace direct presidential…
- Africa: UN and others warn of threats from Ebola and El Niño 26 June 2026Representatives from the UN and major aid organisations have warned of growing humanitarian threats affecting millions of people worldwide. Africa is facing a rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak, with more than a thousand confirmed cases and over 260 deaths reported. Health officials describe it as the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record,…
- Nigeria: hundreds of kidnap victims freed 18 June 2026More than four hundred women and children abducted earlier this year by Boko Haram militants in northeastern Nigeria have been freed, according to local leaders and government officials. The captives were taken from communities around Ngoshe in Borno State, a region that has experienced repeated attacks during the long-running Islamist…
- France / Rwanda: memorial to 1994 genocide unveiled 4 June 2026Emmanuel Macron and Rwandan president Paul Kagame have inaugurated a new memorial in Paris honouring the victims of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Unveiled on the banks of the River Seine, the monument, known as ‘The Archive’, commemorates an estimated 800,000 men, women and children, most of them ethnic Tutsis, who…
- Nigeria: three killed and fifteen abducted at prayer vigil 4 June 2026Three Christians were killed and 15 others abducted when armed attackers stormed a church prayer vigil in Kwara State, western Nigeria, on 23 May. The assault took place during an overnight gathering at a remote prayer site near Ekerin village, where gunmen opened fire before taking worshippers to an unknown…