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26 Dec 2024 - Angolan President Joao Lourenco has pardoned some 50 prisoners, including the son of his predecessor Jose Eduardo dos Santos who was serving a five-year jail term for embezzlement.

26 Dec 2024 - The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has raised concern over the rising cases of abductions in the country as 26 have remained missing since the anti-government protests in June.

26 Dec 2024 - Detectives in Nakuru are probing three separate murders in Bahati and Gilgil sub-counties on Christmas Day.

26 Dec 2024 - An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday killing 38 people was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.

26 Dec 2024 - Abductions have no place in a democratic state like ours, rights group says.

26 Dec 2024 - Mozambique prison riot leaves 33 dead as civil unrest grips country

26 Dec 2024 - Tedros says he was in Yemen to negotiate the release of detained UN staff.

26 Dec 2024 - In several churches, religious used the platform to challenge the government to address the several woes the country is facing including unexplained abductions.

26 Dec 2024 - What we know about crash of Azerbaijan Airlines plane

26 Dec 2024 - About 1,534 people escaped from the prison in the incident but 150 have now been recaptured.