Kenyan Court Awards Compensation to Victims of 2007 Election Violence

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/2007–12–30T120000Z_455924949_GM1DWXWBGGAA_RTRMADP_3_KENYA-ELECTION-VIOLENCE.JPG?imwidth=800NAIROBI — A Kenyan court award­ed com­pen­sa­tion to four women who were sex­u­al­ly abused dur­ing the vio­lence that fol­lowed the dis­put­ed 2007 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Thurs­day’s judg­ment marks the first time a Kenyan court has rec­og­nized vic­tims of sex­u­al abuse from

Uganda Issues New Directives for Foreign Journalists

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/2016–02–21T120000Z_1492445123_GF10000317436_RTRMADP_3_UGANDA-ELECTION.JPG?imwidth=800KAMPALA, UGANDA — Human rights activists are denounc­ing a new Ugan­dan direc­tive to scru­ti­nize jour­nal­ists work­ing for for­eign media. On Thurs­day, Paul Ekochu, the chair­man of the Ugan­dan government’s Media Coun­cil, said jour­nal­ists work­ing in the coun­try for for­eign outlets

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US On Verge of Launching COVID Vaccinations

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/AP20344826446388.jpg?imwidth=800The Unit­ed States could be hours away from start­ing its COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion pro­gram.  The U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion report­ed­ly could autho­rize on Fri­day or Sat­ur­day the emer­gency use of a COVID-19 vac­cine pro­duced by U.S. drug mak­er Pfiz­er and Germany’s BioN­Tech.  An FDA advi­so­ry pan­el vot­ed to rec­om­mend approval of the vac­cine late Thurs­day.  With the U.S. on the verge of its inoc­u­la­tion pro­gram, human rights group Amnesty

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Nigeria Warns of Possible New COVID-19 Wave

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/ap-images/2020/12/5a40c292f75e723b2a9588e8915161f4.jpg?imwidth=800Nige­ria may be on the verge of a sec­ond wave of COVID-19 infec­tions, the health min­is­ter warned Thurs­day, as anoth­er offi­cial said the coun­try expects to roll out a vac­cine by April next year. Osagie Ehanire, speak­ing at a news

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Kenya election violence: Court orders government to pay sex attack survivors

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share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About shar­ing image copy­right­Get­ty Images In what has been called a “land­mark judg­ment”, four women sub­ject­ed to sex­u­al assault in the vio­lence that fol­lowed Kenya’s dis­put­ed 2007 elec­tion are set to receive compensation.

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Black Lives Matter: Activists demand #EndSARS protesters’ release

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share­Sharen­o­close­Share pagelinkCopy link­About shar­ing image copy­right­Get­ty Images Promi­nent Black Lives Mat­ters activists and celebri­ties have writ­ten to Nige­ri­a’s pres­i­dent demand­ing jus­tice over the treat­ment of peo­ple dur­ing protests against police bru­tal­i­ty. The group, which

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UN Official: Sudan Needs World’s Support in Transition to Democracy

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https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2019–04/E257CFB8-982A-4980-BD53-6F9FBF973F5F.jpg?imwidth=800A U.N. offi­cial says Sudan is at a crit­i­cal junc­ture as it tran­si­tions to a democ­ra­cy and needs the sup­port of the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty to over­come its myr­i­ad eco­nom­ic chal­lenges. Rose­mary DiCar­lo, U.N. under­­sec­re­­tary-gen­er­al for polit­i­cal and peace­build­ing affairs on

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