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Eritrean nationals in Sweden, Qatar, Angola, and Zimbabwe celebrated the 30th Independence Day anniversary enthusiastically under the theme “Resilient: As Ever”.At the celebratory event conducted in Stockholm, Sweden, on 23 May, Mr. Yonas Mana, Charge …

The United States is warning Ethiopia and Eritrea that they may face further U.S. actions, including Magnitsky Act sanctions, if those stoking violence against civilians in the Tigray region do not reverse course. As VOA’s Senior Diplomatic Corresponde…

Officials in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday ordered the partial evacuation of the city of Goma out of fears of another eruption of the nearby Mount Nyriagongo volcano. North Kivu province Military Governor Constant Ndima Kongba announced…

Kenya’s department of gender says reported cases of gender-based violence have nearly quintupled during the COVID-19 pandemic. But activists say that stigma and fear associated with reporting abuse means the real number of cases is many times higher. J…

French President Emmanuel Macron was in Rwanda’s capital Thursday, where he acknowledged France’s role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and said he hoped for forgiveness. Speaking alongside Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the Gisozi genocide memorial in …

Two investigative reports this year accused the Burkina Faso representative of tobacco giant Philip Morris of funding terrorism through tobacco smuggling. In an exclusive interview with VOA, Apollinaire Compaoré rejects those findings. Selling cigarett…