Author: Amnewsworld

Following an historic fourth place at the World Cup, Morocco is looking ahead for more success in world football. Their first challenge: Brazil, this Saturday at the Ibn Batouta Stadium in Tangier, Morocco. Head coach Walid Regragui is pleased with the friendly match against the five-time World Champions, as he wants “to keep at a good level”, as he said in a news conference on Friday ahead of the match. “If we want to be at a good level and to achieve important results – especially against big teams like Spain, Portugal or Brazil, like tomorrow’s (Saturday’s, Ed.) match – we must be solid, we must not change our identity. But what’s good is that we…

The Rwandan government announced on Friday that Paul Rusesabagina, an outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, is set to be released. Rusesabagina, who also played a part in the hit film “Hotel Rwanda”, was jailed on terrorism charges in September 2021. The Rwandan government’s spokesman maintained that all procedures were followed. “There is no doubt that the procedure was well respected, and there is no doubt that Mr.Rusesabagina had been convicted because he deserved it. On this point there is no doubt. Today he is released because the law allows it. And you also have to remember that if you relapse and fall back into the…

The recent approval of anti-gay legislation in Uganda set off the alarm in neighboring Kenya also in the grip of anti-gay sentiment. Last month, Kenya’s Supreme Court ruled against a petition seeking to bar LGBTQ lobbying groups, sparking a torrent of condemnation including from the attorney general. Jasmine Nelima is a lesbian woman in Kenya who admits she lives in fear. “The court (Kenya Supreme Court, Ed.) has done a good thing to accept us the way we are and as we walk outside we know the courts acknowledge us but the main issue is that our President has declined to acknowledge the LGBTQ community in Kenya and that makes us live in hiding “,…

A Nigerian senator, Ike Ekweremadu, was found guilty in a London court on Thursday for trying to have a young man’s kidney removed last year for a transplant to his daughter. In addition to the 60-year-old senator, his wife Beatrice, 56, and a doctor who acted as a go-between, Obinna Obeta, 50, were also found guilty of conspiring to bring the young man, from Lagos, to the UK to have his kidney removed. The couple’s daughter Sonia, 25, was cleared. The influential senator, a former deputy speaker of the Nigerian Senate, and his wife pleaded not guilty, as did their…

The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that U.S. accusations of war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are “inflammatory” and “selective because they unfairly allocate responsibility among the parties” to the conflict. On Monday evening, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who had just returned from Ethiopia, said that all the warring parties – pro-government forces and rebels – had committed war crimes during the two-year conflict in Tigray, saying that many of these acts were not “due to chance” or “an indirect consequence of the war” but “were calculated and deliberate. He pointed especially to crimes against humanity attributed to…

For some residents of Cameroon’s economic capital it is a routine to get up early and queue outside a brewery to fill their bottles with water. The public water utility Camwater is not reliable which makes the business of drilling for water a lucrative one. It is good deal for private contractors and the only option for many residents. “Drinking water sources are extremely rare, it is so rare and not very visible and few neighborhoods have them,” Cédric a computer scientist deplores. “So, when there is a point like this, everyone rushes. You could already see how difficult it is…

The toll of attacks on villages by militiamen on Saturday in Ituri, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), rose from 15 to more than 30 dead, including many women and children, we learned Monday from local sources. The CODECO ( Cooperative for the Development of Congo ) community militia, which claims to protect the Lendu tribe against the Hema tribe, is accused of carrying out the attacks early Saturday morning against five villages in the territory of Mahagi, killing inhabitants, stealing cattle, looting and burning houses. Arnold Lokwa, head of the “chiefdom” of Panduru, in which…

The European Union is concerned about the deterioration of the political and economic situation in Tunisia and fears a collapse of the country, declared Monday the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell. “The situation in Tunisia is very dangerous,” he warned after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. “If Tunisia collapses, this risks causing migratory flows towards the EU and causing instability in the MENA region. We want to avoid this situation,” he said. The ministers asked Belgium and Portugal to send representatives on a mission to Tunisia in order to carry out “an assessment of the situation…

A group of 43 Facebook moderators fired in January have announced they are filing a lawsuit in Kenya against the social network’s parent company Meta for, among other things, “unlawful dismissal,” according to a statement released Monday. Meta, which also encompasses Instagram and WhatsApp, has undertaken to reduce its workforce by nearly 25% in less than six months, a symbol of the difficulties faced by the tech sector. “In January, 260 content moderators working at Facebook’s moderation center in Nairobi, Kenya, were informed that they would be let go by Sama, the outsourcing company that has run the office since…

South African authorities have requested Twitter to take down a video that reportedly incites violence against those who will not participate in protest marches planned for 20 March. The opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is organizing nationwide marches to protest the country’s power crisis and has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to resign. In a statement, the Film and Publication Board (FPB) said the video warns that any pupil wearing school uniform during the protests will be beaten up, as well as teachers and police officers. The video was posted by a person claiming to be a member of…