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EU leaders will on Thursday debate calling for "pauses" in Israel's war with Hamas to get aid into Gaza, as the bloc weighs how to respond to another conflict as fighting rages in Ukraine. The European Union has struggled for both unity and influence in the face of the crisis that has engulfed the Middle [...]

The Seychelles National Assembly ratified an agreement with the European Union that will allow persons arrested for drug and weapons trafficking off the coast of Somalia by a member state of the EU, to be tried, prosecuted and imprisoned in Seychelles. The motion for the Assembly to ratify the agreement signed by Seychelles on August [...]

Nigeria's Supreme Court validated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's election victory on Thursday, dismissing the opposition's final appeal against his mandate five months after he came to office. Most Nigerian elections have ended up in legal battles since Africa's most populous nation emerged from military rule in 1999, but the Supreme Court has never overturned a [...]

The Seychelles National Assembly on Wednesday approved proposed amendments to the Prevention of Terrorism Act in keeping with Eastern Southern Africa Anti-money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) recommendations. The proposed amendment bill was presented to the the National Assembly by the Minister for Internal Affairs, Errol Fonseka, who said that it was important to make the amendments to [...]

The Gaza Strip has lived through 16 years of de-development, the United Nations said Wednesday, adding that the economic consequences of the Israel-Hamas war were "impossible to determine". "Gaza has experienced 16 years of de-development and suppressed human potential and the right to development," the UN's UNCTAD trade and development agency said in an annual [...]

More than six decades after Gitu Wa Kahengeri was jailed, tortured and denied food in a British-run labour camp in Kenya, the anti-colonial fighter says he is still waiting for justice. Now in his nineties, Gitu has ramped up his push for an apology and compensation from the British government ahead of a visit by [...]