UN says 33m people are food insecure in Sahel
No fewer than 33 million people in the Sahel are food insecure, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the UN Peacebuilding Commission have s
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MACEDONIA: Ex-PM ‘seeks asylum in Hungary’
Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has reportedly fled to Hungary after failing to show up to begin a two-year prison sentence. In a Fa
CAMEROON: Govt drops fake news charges against journalist
The Cameroon government has dropped charges of fake news levelled against a prominent TV journalist from an Anglophone region. Mimi Mefo Takambo was a
SOUTH AFRICA: Gigaba resigns weeks after sex video scandal
South Africa’s embattled Home Affairs Minister, Malusi Gigaba, has resigned two weeks after a video of him masturbating was circulated online. A state
EUROPEAN UNION: You can’t copyright taste, court rules
The taste of a food cannot be protected by copyright, the EU’s highest legal authority has ruled in a case involving a Dutch cheese. The European Cour