With the 2026 #World Cup set to kick off in just two days, sports e-commerce platform LeagueBook has unveiled a new campaign designed to help football fans overcome one of the tournament’s biggest challenges: securing match tickets and official merchandise.
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#Ethiopians will vote in parliamentary and regional elections on Monday that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s party is expected to dominate despite significant unrest across much of Africa’s second most populous country.
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In #Nairobi, motorists will now pay Sh232.86 per litre for diesel. Kerosene will retail at Sh191.38 per litre. Super petrol remains at Sh214.25 per litre.
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#Nigeria rolls out locally made armoured carriers as army ramps up defence capabilities
The Nigerian Army has taken delivery of a new batch of armoured personnel carriers, combining locally manufactured platforms with foreign-supplied vehicles, in a move that underscores the country’s growing ambitions in defence production and its continued reliance on international partnerships.
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Life is harsh and dangerous in Russian-run parts of Ukraine, activists and former residents say
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Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari - who led his country first as a junta strongman and later as an elected democrat - died Sunday at the age of 82, an aide said.
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DR Congo: Rwanda-backed M23 Executed Civilians in Goma.
(Nairobi) – The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group summarily executed at least 21 civilians and most likely many more in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on February 22-23, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.
The M23 has occupied Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, since January 27, 2025. Witnesses said that on the afternoon of February 22, at least three pickup trucks carrying dozens of M23 fighters arrived at various parts of Goma’s Kasika neighborhood. They executed seven people west of Katindo military camp, a former Congolese army barracks. The bodies of 11 more people, including a boy, were found at a construction site near the camp. On February 23, the fighters rounded up people, including to forcibly recruit them, and killed three men as they tried to escape.
“The M23’s brutal control over Goma has created a climate of fear among those perceived to be allied to the Congolese government,,” said Clémentine de Montjoye, senior Great Lakes researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The mass killings don’t seem to be actions by rogue fighters, but rather the M23 leadership’s efforts to solidify their control by whatever means necessary.”
The absence of reports of fighting between the warring parties and the nature of the wounds indicate that M23 fighters deliberately executed those in their custody, which are war crimes, Human Rights Watch said.
Between February and May, Human Rights Watch remotely interviewed 22 people, including witnesses to the killings, victims’ relatives, and medical workers, among others. Researchers reviewed media reports, and geolocated and analyzed photographs and videos sent directly by sources or found on social media. On May 23, Human Rights Watch contacted Lawrence Kanyuka, spokesperson for the M23’s allied Alliance Fleuve Congo, but received no response.
Human Rights Watch received credible information that the M23 was drawn to the Kasika neighborhood because of reports of crime and activity by the Congolese army and the “Wazalendo,” militia groups aligned with the Congolese government. M23 fighters searched houses and local businesses for young men. “They started shooting and took around 25 people from the streets,” said a resident of an area close to Katindo camp, whose 25-year-old relative was killed that day.
Human Rights Watch confirmed that M23 fighters executed seven people on streets close to Katindo camp and received credible reports of dozens more killings. “[The M23] went into stores and shot people in the head on the Avenue du Commandant Belge,” said a witness. “The bodies were then piled up in two places: 10 in one place and 15 in another.” Residents described seeing over a dozen bodies on Kasika Avenue. “[The M23] showed me the bodies of people on the ground and said: ‘This is what we're going to do with you,’” said a woman whose relative was taken away. “I saw 18 bodies; others were on other streets.”
Eleven bodies were found at a construction site less than 100 meters from the camp, based on witness accounts and geolocated and verified videos and photographs. Human Rights Watch verified the identities of six victims, all civilians and neighborhood residents.
The relative of a victim taken from their house said: “The M23 walked off with him, and the next morning we found his body in the construction site with other bodies.” A relative and a neighbor of a 15-year-old boy said that the M23 took him and executed him, and dumped his body in the construction site with the others.
Photographs and videos show several bullet holes and blood on the wall on the execution site, as well as items on the ground that appear to be bullet cases, indicating that some of the victims were shot there. The Independent Forensic Expert Group of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims estimates less than 24 hours had passed since the people were killed and photographed, matching witness accounts. A photograph posted to Facebook at 10:13 p.m. local time on February 22, taken during daylight hours, indicates the victims were killed sometime before nightfall, at 6:40 p.m. on February 22.
On February 22, M23 fighters shot three people on a street just west of Kasika. “When we arrived, my friend and two others were still breathing,” said a friend of a victim. “The M23 refused to let us approach them and fired into the ground. When [my friend] died, they agreed to let us take him to the morgue.” Human Rights Watch geolocated a video shared by a resident showing one of the bodies being loaded onto a truck on Mulongwe Avenue, west of the neighborhood. The witness said he saw six other bodies on that street.
Human Rights Watch also geolocated and verified a video showing men rounded up by M23 fighters on February 23 near a sports field commonly known as “terrain des scouts.” “We saw the M23 take around 20 people and make them sit on the ground,” said a witness. “They started intimidating them – they were youth from the neighborhood, but they accused them of being FARDC [Congolese army]. At least three people tried to run away but were shot dead.” An independent source corroborated that men trying to escape were killed, but could not verify the victims’ identities.
The video shows an M23 fighter with a red arm band, believed to belong to the military police unit. The detained men were driven away in a truck, according to a witness. A resident and an independent source said they believed the men were being forcibly recruited.
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Family members of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni in His Government
1. Janet Museveni - Minister of Education (His wife)
2. Muhoozi Kainerugaba - Chief of Uganda's Defence Forces
(His son)
3. Salim Saleh - Presidential Adviser and Former Minister (His brother)
4. Bright Rwamirama - Minister For Animal Industry (His cousin)
5. Shedrack Nzeire - Senior Presidential Advisor On Defense (His step brother)
6. Miriam Karugaba - Administrator At The State House (His sister-in-law)
7. Sabiiti Muzeyi - Former Deputy Inspector General of Police (His cousin)
8. James Kateera - Military Commander (Cousin of his wife)
9. Faith Mirembe - Private Secretary In Education And Social Services (His cousin)
10. Sam Kutesa - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
(Father-in-law of Museveni's son, Muhoozi)
11. Allan Matsiko - Special Forces Command's Intelligence Director (husband to Sam Kutesa daughter, the father-in-law of Muhoozi)
12. Jim Muhwezi - Minister For National Security
(Cousin Of Museveni's wife)
13. Susan Muhwezi - Presidential Assistant of the African Growth Opportunity Act (Cousin Of Museveni's wife)
14. John Karazaarwe - Senior Presidential Advisor On Local Government (Cousin Of Museveni's wife)
15. Henry Tumukunde - Former Senior Military Officer (Married a cousin of Museveni's wife)
16. Moses Byaruhanga - Senior Presidential Advisor
(Married a cousin of Museveni's wife)
17. Hope Nyakairu - Under-Secretary For Finance And Administration At The State House
(Cousin Of Museveni's wife)
18. Jolly Sabune - Managing Director Cotton Development Authority
(Cousin Of Museveni's wife)
19. Natasha Museveni Karugire - Presidential Assistant In Charge Of Household At State House
(Museveni's daughter)
20. Joseph Ekwau - Presidential Advisor On Veterinary Issues
(His nephew)
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