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Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Frans Kapafi has on Thursday appealed to Namibians to be lenient to Zimbabweans who sought refuge in the country due to political and economic back home.

Amnesty International (AI) has described Malawi’s Minister of Homeland and Security, Nicholas Dausi’s remarks as shameful denial comments that are fuelling attacks against persons with albinism in the country.

President Hage Geingob on Thursday appointed a presidential commission of inquiry into claims of ancestral land rights and restitution.

South Africa will extradite Mozambique’s former finance minister Manuel Chang held in a Johannesburg jail since December on a US-issued international arrest warrant, according to a press report.

Malawi’s suspected albino kidnapper has died while in police custody in Lilongwe on Wednesday.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Wednesday announced the appointment of a Nigerian, Ms Joy Ezeilo as a member of seven distinguished experts to serve on the newly established Civil Society Advisory Board on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Mission for the Stabilization of Mali (MINUSMA) Tuesday voiced concern over what it called serious human rights abuses in the Bankass Circle in the centre of the country.

The proceedings of a regional workshop aimed at training national trainers on the demographic dividend programming guide are into their second day in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Tuesday.

Two people taken hostage in Mali including the Prefect of Tenenkou (Mopti), Makan Doumbia have been freed, the secretary general of the Union of Civil Administrators, Ousmane Christian Diarra confirmed to APA on Tuesday.

The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) announced Tuesday that it was abandoning its moral policing role in Mali’s northern town of Kidal, including a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.