An appeals court in Morocco has upheld a six-year jail sentence for the journalist and human rights activist Omar Radi on charges of espionage and rape.
Radi, who was originally sentenced in July last year, denies the charges.
Omar Radi is the second freelance journalist in a week to be sentenced to a long prison term over sex crime accusations.
The campaign group Reporters Without Borders has condemned the ruling.
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Uganda’s president meets Russian ambassador
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Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni met Russian ambassador Vladlen Semivolos on Thursday to discuss “issues of mutual interest”.
, but it came a day after Uganda abstained from voting for a UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sixteen other African countries including South Africa, Angola, Algeria and Mali abstained from the vote.
President Museveni’s son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba had on Monday expressed support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a tweet.
First group of Nigerians arrives home from Ukraine war
The first batch of Nigerian nationals evacuated from the conflict in Ukraine arrived on Friday morning in the capital, Abuja.
The group consists of 451 students according to the chairman of Nigeria’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, Yusuf Buba, who accompanied them from Romania’s capital, Bucharest.
Nigeria is expected to evacuate 5,000 citizens who are fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.
Many have crossed over to the neighbouring countries of Romania, Poland and Hungary.
The repatriation exercise was meant to start on Wednesday but was delayed because of logistics challenges.
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission has tweeted photos of the students’ arrival at Nnamdi Azikwe international airport.
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Source: BBC
