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Paul Rusesabagina became popular after Hotel Rwanda depicted his efforts to save hundreds of Tutsis at his hotel during the genocide. He is a Hutu who inspired a Hollywood film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Authorities are charging him with leading “terrorist movements”. Rusesabagina launched an opposition party, which had an armed wing based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...

A Ugandan refugee mother in her 30s has been found dead beside her malnourished baby in a flat in Glasgow. Mercy Baguma was found by police in Govan on Saturday, after friends, who had not seen her since Tuesday, raised the alarm. The baby boy, who was found crying and weakened from starvation beside his mother’s body, is now being cared ...

The former president of Tanzania His Exellency Benjamin Mkapa, who served from the 1995 to 2005 and led to several East African peace mediation efforts while in office and afterwards, died on Friday night, whilst receiving treatment in Tanzania’s capital Dar es Salam. Former President of Tanzania Benjamin Mkapa has passed away at the age of 81. He died while ...

Unprecedented heat continues to sear the Arctic, with temperatures last week hovering around 33.8 degrees Celsius. In June, the region already set an all-time high temperature of more than 38 degrees Celsius in the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk.  This is feverishly hot for a human, but considering Verkhoyansk is home to one of the coldest temperatures ever recorded outside Antarctica, the unprecedented heat is cataclysmic. Unseasonably early fires are also blazing ...

American rapper, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and entrepreneur Kanye West who’s also a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that he would run for US presidency 2020 to challenge Trump and former Vice president Joe Biden. “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am ...