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- SundayNews
- July 31, 2024
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Museveni, Tayebwa want accountability in wealth creation initiatives
President Yoweri Museveni has tasked accounting officers to be strict with matters of accountability in wealth creation programmes for rural poverty eradication. Museveni said programmes like the Parish Development Model…
- SundayNews
- July 31, 2024
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Republic of Korea (ROK) Government Decides to Provide US $1 Million in Humanitarian Aid to Ethiopia in Response to Landslides in Southern Ethiopia
The government of the Republic of Korea has decided to provide US $1 million in humanitarian aid to Ethiopia to support the latter’s ongoing relief efforts in response to landslides.…
- SundayNews
- July 31, 2024
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Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Statement by High Representative Josep Borrell on the agreement for a ceasefire
The EU welcomes the ceasefire agreed yesterday in Luanda as a result of the trilateral meeting between Angola, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It commends the…
- SundayNews
- July 31, 2024
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Skyrocketing violence against children in Sudan demands urgent protection measures: United Nations (UN) report
The report on Children and Armed Conflict in Sudan, released on Tuesday, documented a staggering 2,168 grave violations against 1,913 children in 2022 and 2023 – a significant increase compared…
- SundayNews
- July 31, 2024
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South Sudan: Rise in extrajudicial executions
We are extremely concerned about extrajudicial executions in South Sudan, where people face army and security forces’ firing squads for a range of alleged offences, such as murder, rape, cattle-raiding,…
- SundayNews
- July 31, 2024
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Côte d’Ivoire: Model to follow for definitive abolition of the death penalty, says Special Rapporteur
A UN human rights expert today welcomed Côte d'Ivoire’s ratification of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as a definitive and irrevocable step…
- SundayNews
- July 31, 2024
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Mauritania: Press release on the death of more than 25 migrants off the coast of Nouakchott
The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (the Commission) is closely monitoring the situation of migrants on the continent and the extreme risks they face, particularly in the context…
adminFour nabbed in botched bid to rob Chegutu mine
Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau THREE-armed robbers and their accomplice, an employee at Pickstone Peerless Mine in Chegutu, were arrested on Monday evening after alert security guards thwarted their plan…
Four nabbed in botched bid to rob Chegutu mine
Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau THREE-armed robbers and their accomplice, an employee at Pickstone Peerless Mine in Chegutu, were arrested on Monday evening after alert security guards thwarted their plan…
Ngwazi brothers, same calling, miracle survival and a mission made in heaven
Tadious Manyepo Arts Reporter The Ngwazi siblings Mark and Tindo have engraved their names in Zimbabwe’s entertainment folklore following their rapid rise to sungura stardom. The brothers, who are just…