#Sudan's war refugees describe horrors in Egyptian jails, surging deportations

#Zimbabwe's upper house of parliament on Wednesday approved a bill to extend presidential terms from five to seven years, which will allow current President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in office until 2030.

#Rwanda continues to steal valuable minerals from DR #Congo, one of the world's poorest nations. A year-long report by #GW_DRC.

https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/transition-minerals/who-buys-rwandas-smuggled-coltan-the-global-journey-of-conflict-coltan-from-drc-to-the-worlds-electronics

Over 3 000 undocumented #Malawian immigrants have been deported since Friday from South Africa through the Beitbridge Border Post in Musina, Limpopo.

#SouthAfrica: Premier Ntuli condemns killing of Malawian in #Pietermaritzburg #xenophobic attack.

#Mauritius aims to cut its budget deficit for a second year by boosting revenue and relying on #UK payments for the Chagos Islands lease to help fill its financing gap

A #Vietnamese man deported by the United States to South Sudan a year ago as part of the Trump administration's hardline immigration agenda left for Vietnam on Friday, South Sudanese officials said.

#Nigeria : United Nations and European Union call for shift from humanitarian crisis management to long-term community-owned development for 3.5 million displaced #Nigerians.

Donors have pledged $910 million, including $80 million from African Union member states, to support the Ebola response in Congo and Uganda, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement on Thursday.

The U.S. State Department announced visa restrictions targeting people it said were undermining peace in Ethiopia on Thursday, focused on hardliners in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and their immediate family members.