Ghana has become the latest country to accept people deported from the US as part of its campaign against undocumented migrants. President John Mahama said nationals from various West African countries would now be taken in following a bilateral agreement with the US. He said 14 had already arrived. He cited the regional bloc Ecowas’s […]
Nearly 130 people have been “summarily executed” by Islamist insurgents in Niger in separate attacks since March, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. The rights group says gunmen carried out a series of brutal attacks, including a mass murder at a mosque in the western Tillabéri region in June, where more than 70 […]
Seven Chinese nationals who smuggled Malawians to South Africa and subjected them to forced labour have been handed 20-year prison terms each. The four men and three women were found guilty of human trafficking and kidnapping earlier this year by a South African court. Their sentence comes nearly six years after they were arrested when […]
The threat of flooding once again looms over the city of Maiduguri, in north-eastern Nigeria, a year after torrential rains and the collapse of a dam left entire neighbourhoods submerged in water. For many residents who are still bearing the scars of last year’s floods, the possibility of a repeat has created huge unease. At […]
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