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Within months, U.S. forces in Iraq will end their combat duties there, President Joe Biden announced Monday during a White House meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. In response to reporters’ questions in the Oval Office, Biden, alongside the Iraqi leader, said the new role for American troops in…

A court in Tanzania has charged the leader of the main opposition party with terrorism-related crimes, police said on Monday, following his arrest while preparing for a meeting to discuss proposals for a new constitution. Freeman Mbowe, head of the Chadema party, and 10 others were detained in the city…

Tunisian President Kais Saied imposed a month-long nationwide curfew Monday, a day after dismissing the prime minister and freezing parliament. According to a written statement from the Tunisian Presidency, Saied issued a decree banning people and vehicles from streets from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting Monday evening until Aug.…

Mozambican authorities have arrested at least 24 people for violating a Covid night curfew over the weekend in the conflict-hit Cabo Delgado province. Most of the people arrested were soldiers, some in their uniform, who had been out drinking. They were disarmed and detained in the provincial capital Pemba. Provincial…

In order to consolidate the gains made over the past few days in reducing Covid-19 cases, the government has resolved that current measures, including a total lockdown in Kigali and some eight districts in the country, will be extended for five more days until July 31. This is according to…

Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissed the country’s prime minister and froze parliament for 30 days on Sunday, posing a major test to the young democracy and escalating a political crisis that has built for months. Opponents condemned the move as an attempted coup. Saied announced that he was firing Prime…

South Africa’s president announced a further relaxation of lockdown restrictions late Sunday as cases of COVID-19 slowed down in the continent’s most affected nation. Cyril Ramaphosa said in a televised address to the nation that the Cabinet has decided the country should be moved from an adjusted Alert Level 4…

On July 16, 2021, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued an advisory opinion on the right to participate in the government of one’s country in the context of an election held during a public health emergency or a pandemic, such as the COVID-19 crisis. Filed by the…

Anti-lockdown protesters have marched in major Australian cities, as Covid cases spiked to record numbers in Sydney and authorities warned of a “continuing and growing problem”. Thousands of angry, unmasked people marched through the Sydney central business district on Saturday afternoon demanding an end to the city’s lockdown, which is…

Tanzania has registered 29 new COVID-19 deaths and 176 cases in the past 24 hours, the government announced Friday. The total number of cases rose to 858. Dorothy Gwajima, Tanzania’s health minister, warned that more people are getting infected. “Let me state clearly, COVID-19 exists and people are dying, let’s…