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Malawi court orders schools to admit students with dreadlocks

A high court in Malawi has ordered education authorities to allow learners

Morocco, Qatar pledge to boost gender equality, women’s empowerment

Morocco’s Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration, and Family, Aawatif Hayar, held talks

Kenya president sets up inquiry commission to seek justice for cult victims

Kenya's president William Ruto has appointed a commission of inquiry into the

Nigerian MP and wife jailed for organ-trafficking plot

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, wanted the organ

Mali sets 18 June for referendum

Mali's military authorities have announced 18 June as the new date for

Ugandan court nullifies cannabis and khat ban

A law that criminalised drugs and narcotics, such as marijuana and khat,

Amnesty demands release of jailed journalists in Morocco

Rights group Amnesty International has accused Morocco of denying jailed journalists and

Nigerian senator convicted, MPs beg for UK mercy

Lawmakers in Nigeria have appealed to the UK justice authorities to “temper

South Africa’s National Assembly passes bill to make sign language official

A bill that will make sign language the twelfth official language in

South Africa mulling law to indemnify Vladimir Putin

Ronald Lamola said there were a number of options they were looking