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• Armed men kill at least 33 in village in Ebola-hit eastern DRC
  Source: Al Jazeera English - News

  Armed men kill at least 33 in village in Ebola-hit eastern DRC. Locals blame ADF armed group, which pledged allegiance to ISIL in 2019, for the deadly raids on North Kivu villages.

• Kenyan doomsday sect leader jailed for 200 years for murder of 190 children
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Paul Mackenzie convicted over deaths of children and one adult after followers were ordered to starve themselves and their families The leader of a Kenyan doomsday sect has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult disasters in recent history. The sentence, comprising 100 years for murder by starvation and 100 years by direct homicide, came two weeks after the court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa found the cult leader guilty of the crimes. Continue reading...

• Kenyan doomsday cult leader given life sentence for murdering 191 people
  Source: BBC News - World

  Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve their children to death in a forest so they could "meet Jesus".

• ANC faces bruising defeat in South African local elections with 80% of ballots counted
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Former liberation movement’s share of national vote almost 14 percentage points below 2021 result The African National Congress is on course to suffer a bruising defeat in South Africa’s local elections, with the once dominant party of Nelson Mandela falling to under a third of the vote nationally with more than 80% of ballots counted. Wednesday’s fragmented vote marks another stage in the decline of the ANC, which has led national governments since the end of white minority apartheid rule in 1994. High unemployment, crime, corruption and poor local service delivery have all contributed to voters turning away from the party . Continue reading...

• British healthcare worker with Ebola evacuated from DR Congo to UK
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Patient is ⁠in ​stable condition and will be transferred to a specialist ‘high consequence’ infectious disease unit A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the UK for medical treatment, it has been confirmed. “A British citizen currently in the DR Congo has tested positive for Ebola,” a spokesperson for the UK government said in a statement on Wednesday. “The UK has well-established procedures for dealing with cases like this, and those processes have been activated … The risk to the UK public from Ebola remains low.” Continue reading...

• ANC faces anger over poor services as South Africans vote in local elections
  Source: The Guardian - World

  Party expected to get less than a third of the vote amid frustration over water outages and power cuts The African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as voters go to the polls amid deep discontent over water outages, power cuts and crumbling infrastructure.

• ANC under pressure to reverse South Africa decline
  Source: BBC News - World
• Why South Africa's local elections matter
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English
• Trump to remove Rwanda and South Africa from US trade deal
  Source: BBC News - World
• Sinkholes, scarred land and scapegoats: the scourge of illegal gold mining in Johannesburg
  Source: The Guardian - World
• Russia in Africa: What is Putin hoping to achieve?
  Source: Deutsche Welle - English
• Africa’s ‘unprecedented’ Ebola outbreak could reach UK, says top health official
  Source: The Guardian - World

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