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Kenya: Ombudsman Seeks Nema Response Over Marsabit Power Projects Data
[Capital FM] Nairobi — The Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ) has issued an Access to Information notice to the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), demanding an explanation over its alleged failure to provide records relating to approved and pending power projects in Marsabit County.
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Africa: UAE Reaffirms Investment Drive in Africa’s Energy and Trade Sectors
[Capital FM] Nairobi — United Arab Emirates has emerged as Africa’s largest single-country investor in recent years, committing more than USD 110 billion across the continent between 2019 and 2023, with over USD 70 billion directed to energy, green and renewable sectors.
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South Africa: Call for Ceasefire As South Sudan Moves Towards Elections
[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for a cessation of all violence and hostilities in South Sudan.
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Kenya: Opposition Leaders Outraged As IG Kanja Snubs Meeting Over Alleged Rally Disruptions
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Opposition leaders were left visibly angered on Monday after a planned meeting with Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja failed to materialise, despite prior assurances that he would personally address their concerns.
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Kenya: Koome Inducts 15 New Court of Appeal Judges, Sets One-Year Appeal Deadline
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Chief Justice Martha Koome has opened an induction workshop for fifteen newly appointed judges of the Court of Appeal of Kenya, urging them to uphold excellence and accelerate the delivery of justice under the Judiciary’s Social Transformation through Access to Justice (STAJ) blueprint.
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Madagascar: Madagascar’s ‘People of the Forest’ Confront Life Beyond the Woods
[RFI] The Zafimaniry people of Madagascar are confronting a difficult choice about their future as deforestation and globalisation reshape their way of life. Fewer than 15,000 members of this forest-based community live in the “land of mist” on the southern edge of the country’s central highlands, where decades of heavy deforestation have left many hills
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Ethiopia: Crumbling of Rentier Fortress – Ethiopia’s Maritime Pivot, Decline of Djibouti’s Monopoly
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba — For much of the past three decades, the political economy of the Horn of Africa rested on a fragile but durable arrangement: Ethiopia’s overwhelming dependence on Djibouti as its primary maritime gateway and Djibouti’s ability to convert geography into political and economic leverage. That arrangement is now in terminal decline.
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Ethiopia: Ethiopia Declines to Renew Reuters Correspondents’ Accreditation After Report Alleging RSF Training Camp
[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba — The government of Ethiopia has declined to renew accreditation for three Addis Abeba-based journalists from Reuters and withdrawn the accreditation to cover the 39th African Union (AU) Summit, days after the news agency published an investigative report alleging Ethiopia is hosting a training facility linked to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces
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Sudan: RSF Violations During Capture of El Fasher Amount to War Crimes and Possible Crimes Against Humanity – UN Report
[United Nations in Sudan] The Rapid Support Forces unleashed “a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality” during its final offensive to capture the besieged city of El Fasher last October, committing widespread atrocities that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, says a report published Friday by the
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Sudan: Amid Ramadan Truce Push, Quintet Condemns Sudan’s Sieges, Drone Strikes, Civilian Carnage
[Reporter] A coalition of international powers on Thursday issued an urgent condemnation of escalating military operations in Sudan, warning that sieges, drone strikes, and attacks on civilian infrastructure are pushing the country toward further atrocities.