BBC There are fears the move will disrupt efforts to avert the country’s food crisis South Sudan’s government says it will not ban foreign workers, annulling a decree it issued a day earlier. Contrary to reports, there was no policy ordering foreign workers to leave by 15 October, Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said. Thousands
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BBC There are fears the move will disrupt efforts to avert the country’s food crisis South Sudan’s government has issued an order to non-governmental organisations (NG0s) and private firms to fire certain foreign workers by mid-October. The labour ministry says roles ranging from receptionist to executive director should in future be filled by South Sudanese
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US Department of State The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Eritrea and strongly recommends U.S. citizens not travel to the country since there is increasing possibility U.S. citizens will not receive the requisite exit permit from Eritrean authorities. This replaces the Travel Warning for Eritrea of November
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Somalilandsun Today’s major political conflicts might relate to the Western European powers’ aggressive and rivalry occupation towards other continents of the globe for industrial resources. That systematic migration, which its last foot was Africa’s Scramble of 1880s, was too strange to the occupied people and nations while today’s liberty or freedom through “own state sovereignty”
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BBC Uganda’s Entebbe Airport Security was increased at key sites in the Ugandan capital, including Entebbe international airport The authorities in Uganda have uncovered a terrorist cell which they believe was planning an imminent attack, the US embassy in Kampala says. It said the cell belonged to Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, but this has yet
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WSJ Reuters-China has begun deploying 700 soldiers to a U.N. peacekeeping force in South Sudan to protect oil fields and Chinese workers amid a rebellion in the African country, The Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper quoted a spokesman for South Sudan’s president as saying on Tuesday that the airlift of a Chinese infantry battalion to
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Reuters By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s Islamist rebel group bombed African peacekeepers and government vehicles on Monday in twin attacks that left at least 12 civilians dead, marking al Shabaab’s first major attack since promising revenge for the killing of its leader last week. The blasts within an hour of
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BBC The case against Uhuru Kenyatta has angered many African leaders Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have asked for the case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to be adjourned indefinitely. ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she still did not have enough evidence to proceed with the trial, which was due to resume next
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BBC Al-Shabab fighters want to overthrow the UN-backed Somali government Somalia’s Islamist group al-Shabab has named Ahmad Umar as successor to former leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a US air strike. The group announced the move in an online statement, vowing to take revenge for Godane’s death. Somalia’s authorities earlier put the
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AFP The death of Al-Qaeda’s top man in Somalia has been viewed as a major victory. Why is his death important? The leader of Somalia’s Shabaab rebels Ahmed Abdi Godane, declared dead by the United States after an air strike earlier this week, was a ruthless kingpin of Al-Qaeda’s main African affiliate. On Monday night, US
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