Cart is empty GENEVA – The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) yesterday called on governments to allow civilians fleeing Sudan into their territory and not to send them back to the conflict-torn country.
“We’re advising governments not to return people to Sudan because of the conflict that’s going on there,” Elizabeth Tan, UNHCR’s Director of International Protection, told reporters at a briefing in Geneva. – REUTERS.
RUSSIA IS A STRATEGIC ALLY, SAYS BURKINA FASO
OUAGADOUGOU – Burkina Faso’s interim President Ibrahim Traore on Thursday said Russia had become a key strategic ally but denied that Russian mercenaries were supporting Burkinabe forces in their fight against Islamist armed groups.
In a rare televised interview, Traore said “The departure of the French army does not mean that France is not an ally,” Traore replied. “But we have strategic allies too. We have new forms of cooperation. Russia, for example, is a strategic ally.” – REUTERS.
KENYANS MOURN WIDOW OF MAU MAU ICON
NAIROBI – Kenyans have been paying their tributes to Mukami Kimathi, the widow of Kenya’s Mau Mau freedom struggle icon Dedan Kimathi.
Her husband, who was the leader of the Mau Mau uprising, was captured, tried and executed by the British colonial government in 1956. He was buried at the Kamiti prison on the outskirts of the city. – BBC.
SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER SECOND MASS SHOOTING IN SERBIA
BELGRADE – A man has been arrested after eight people died and 14 were injured in Serbia’s second mass shooting in a week after a boy killed nine people at a Belgrade school on Wednesday.
The attack occurred shortly after midnight near a village some 60km south of Belgrade when the shooter opened fire from a moving car. He was arrested in the early hours of yesterday after “an extensive search. – BBC.
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