[Premium Times] This installment of PREMIUM TIMES 'series of exclusive reporting on last year's failed coup details how a veteran Nollywood actor became involved with suspected coup plotters after developing a friendship with a soldier, before being assigned a propagandist role.
[Dabanga] Bara / El Jamama -- At least 24 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in an air strike on the village of Sharshar west of Bara in North Kordofan on Wednesday, according to local witnesses and rights groups. Hours later, a separate paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on El Jamama left at least nine people dead and triggered a fresh wave of displacement.
[HRW] Nairobi -- Apparent Indiscriminate Attack in Village Held by Islamist Armed Group
[Dabanga] Amsterdam / Kampala -- The 11th voluntary return flight carrying Sudanese refugees from Uganda to Sudan departed on Thursday with 80 returnees on board. The flight travelled to Port Sudan Airport aboard a Tarco Aviation aircraft and was sponsored by Sudan's General Intelligence Service.
[IPS] Geneva -- Three years into the war in Sudan, survivors and human rights defenders are struggling to respond to overwhelming needs amid widespread violence, displacement, and limited global attention. As horrific violations and abuses intensify and those documenting them become targets, calls for accountability and sustained international engagement grow more urgent.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Senior Counsel Philip Murgor has cautioned Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Erastus Edung Ethekon that the responsibility of safeguarding Kenya's electoral integrity ultimately rests with the commission's leadership.
[Premium Times] "For whatever reason, they are looking for leverage because we have some of their commanders with us and they feel taking these kids and holding them to ransom will make us release their commander," he said.
[ENA] In his address to Parliament earlier this week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, made a revealing assessment of the disquiet that perpetuates in the country's northernmost region of Tigray, saying that the instigator is a foreign ilk.
[Premium Times] The Senate noted that counterfeit medicines have become silent weapons of mass destruction because they destroy lives, weaken healthcare delivery and undermine public confidence in genuine pharmaceutical products.
[UN News] Atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia against Sudanese civilians in El Fasher in October - including mass killings, abductions and gang rapes - bear the markers of genocide, independent UN human rights investigators reported on Wednesday.
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's federal government and opposition representatives have agreed to continue political dialogue aimed at easing tensions over the country's political future, according to a joint statement released by the Ministry of Information on Wednesday.
[Nyasa Times] Minister of Health and Sanitation Madalitso Baloyi says government is rolling out measures to fix long-standing gaps in healthcare access, from ambulance shortages to stalled clinic construction and a lack of specialised medical services.
[Bhekisisa] In early May this year South Africa's Constitutional Court became the battleground for one of the most consequential disputes over health legislation since democracy.
[Dabanga] El Obeid / El Fasher / Geneva / Chad -- The UN Human Rights Council has unanimously condemned the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for escalating violence in and around El Obeid, warning that the North Kordofan capital faces a growing risk of mass atrocities, while the RSF-aligned Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasees) called for an immediate ceasefire and renewed political negotiations.
[GroundUp] About 400 legally documented refugees have camped outside Durban's Refugee Reception Centre for a month, fleeing threats of violence
[Capital FM] Kisii -- People's Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua on Monday accused the government of violating constitutional freedoms by blocking Saba Saba demonstrations through extensive security deployments and roadblocks, saying the anniversary should be marked peacefully in honour of Kenya's pro-democracy struggle.
[Premium Times] Governor Hyacinth Alia says he updated President Bola Tinubu on security, the return of internally displaced persons, ongoing projects and the political situation in Benue following the state's golden jubilee celebrations.
[HRW] Amend New Asylum Law in Line with International Standards
[RFI] Tuareg separatists and al-Qaeda affiliates appear to have secured control of a key town in northern Mali following a coordinated offensive by the rebels over the weekend. The Malian army and Russian mercenaries have been holed up in the key camp of Anéfis after the rebels launched their offensive on Saturday 4 July.
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