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Kenya cult death toll passes 300, with more exhumations planned

More than 600 people still missing, authorities say, amidd reports pastor ordered followers to starve themselves

The Guardian - UK

Kenya starvation cult death toll exceeds 300: official

NAIROBI - The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation to "meet Jesus Christ" has surpassed 300 after 19 new bodies were found Tuesday, a senior official said.

Bangkok Post

Three Tunisian opposition leaders on hunger strike in prison

Ennahdha party leaders stop eating to protest against their imprisonment on terrorism, money-laundering charges.

Al Jazeera

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Eritrea rejoins East Africa bloc after exit 16 years ago

Eritrea quit the body in 2007 in protest of its neighbour Ethiopia deploying troops to Somalia to fight al-Shabab.

Al Jazeera

Ethnic violence in Sudan raises genocide alarm as war rages on

Activists and observers have warned that unchecked violence could prove worse than Darfur’s previous cycle of killings.

Al Jazeera

How do the Sierra Leonean elections work? A basic guide

Sierra Leone elects a new president and government this June. Here’s what you need to know about the election.

Al Jazeera

Opposition blames Tshisekedi for insecurity in DRC as over 50 people die in violence in the East

At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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Fate of jailed fighters still unknown months after Ethiopia truce

The whereabouts of hundreds of fighters on both sides of the Ethiopian war are still not known, despite truce.

Al Jazeera

Romania recalls envoy to Kenya over racist comment

African group ‘not prepared to participate in same spaces with Dragos Viorel Tigau

The Independent UK

South Sudan’s sluggish peace deal and unsteady road to elections

In 18 months South Sudan is supposed to head to the polls for presidential elections, the culmination of a peace agreement signed nearly five years ago to pull the nation out of fighting that killed some 400,000 people

The Independent UK

Aid agencies raise alarm as solo children cross Chad border to flee Sudan fighting

Unicef says ‘more and more unaccompanied children’ among thousands of refugees streaming across 1,000km-long border

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda genocide accused Félicien Kabuga is ruled unfit to stand trial: this will further erode trust in international justice

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals recently concluded a two-year court hearing on Félicien Kabuga. Kabuga is accused of crimes against humanity during the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994. The court ruled that he was not mentally fit for trial.

The Conversation

‘Most fearless’ fighting in Sudan after 24-hour ceasefire ends

While Saturday marked the calmest day since the conflict began, fighting resumed on Sunday with renewed intensity.

Al Jazeera

Civilians in Sudan brace for 'return of terror' as one-day ceasefire ends

Shelling and gunfire resumed on Sunday in the Sudanese capital, witnesses said, after the end of a 24-hour ceasefire that gave civilians a brief respite from nearly two months of war.

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Latest ceasefire begins in Sudan as mediators warn it may be the last try

A 24-hour ceasefire came into force in Sudan on Saturday, but with fears it will collapse like previous truces, US and Saudi mediators warned they may break off their efforts to halt the fighting.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s 24-hour truce: ‘We don’t hear the sound of guns’

Aid agencies hoping to deliver aid during the truce period but will need a guarantee of safe passage from warring sides.

Daily Mirror

Cuban refugee escaping torture shocked by 'inhumane' immigration detention centre hell

Manuel Vega was detained and tortured by police in Cuba. He told the Mirror he was "shocked and terrified" to suffer the same treatment in the US while seeking asylum, where he was supposed to be protected

The Guardian - UK

Hero who saved hundreds of children during Rwandan genocide dies aged 61

Orphanage run by Damas Gisimba and his brother became refuge from militias during genocide that killed 800,000 Rwandans

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One UN peacekeeper dead, four others injured in north Mali attack

More than 300 of the peacekeepers in MINUSMA have also been killed since the start of the Mali mission in 2013.

Al Jazeera

Q&A: RSF adviser on Sudan ceasefire, Wagner and civilian killings

Ibrahim Mukhayer speaks to Al Jazeera about the allegations against the RSF and what would it take for the war to end.

The Guardian - UK

Food aid suspended in Ethiopia after ‘widespread and coordinated’ thievery

UN and US halt food assistance in the country, where 20 million people rely on aid, in order to investigate ‘diversion’ of supplies

Radio France Internationale

US and Saudi mediators reach a ceasefire agreement in Sudan

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America have announced that representatives of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have agreed to a ceasefire. This follows an overnight attack on Saudi Arabia's embassy in Khartoum.

France 24

UN joins US in suspending food aid to Ethiopia over diversion of supplies

The United Nations World Food Program said Friday that it is temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia because its supplies are being diverted, an announcement that came a day after the United States Agency for International Development said it was doing the same.

Radio France Internationale

UN peacekeeping mission in DRC is to withdraw 'as quickly as possible'

The top United Nations official Jean-Pierre Lacroix ended his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday saying that the peacekeepers should withdraw from the conflict-torn country "as quickly as possible".

The Independent UK

In Zimbabwe, announcement of election date triggers both hope and despair

Zimbabwe’s president recently announced that national elections will take place on Aug. 23

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