Afrika Update Report
21 August 2024
- Morocco - Rabat
Morocco's king has pardoned nearly 5,000 people convicted or wanted on charges linked to illegal cannabis cultivation, the justice ministry said in a statement yesterday.
- DRC- Kinshasa
DR Congo On Standby for First Vaccines to Fight Mpox Outbreak
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hopes to receive its first doses of an mpox vaccine by next week, following promises from the United States and Japan to help it fight its outbreak, the Congolese health minister said yesterday.
- Zimbabwe- Harare
Zanu-PF ridicules jailed civil society, opposition activists after SADC summit.
In jailing 200 civil society activists and opposition members since June, the security sector in Zimbabwe "lived up to its billing" ahead of the 44th Southern African Development Community (SADC) ordinary summit of heads of state and government.
- Haiti- Port-au- Prince
Police in Haiti's capital tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful protesters yesterday as they called on law enforcement to help them stop the gangs that have been violently seizing control of their neighbourhoods.
- In our historical archives, it was on this day 21 August 1994 when the last French troops pull out of Rwanda.
On 21 August 1994, French troops left Rwanda, ending their highly controversial mission there. In the same year, South Africa held its first democratic election. With the process of re-constructing post-apartheid society, little attention was given to the Rwandan genocide.