cover of episode Africa News Tonight: Opposition aims to cut ANC vote, Nigeria activists oppose proposed death penalty, militants may be using child soldiers - May 15, 2024

Africa News Tonight: Opposition aims to cut ANC vote, Nigeria activists oppose proposed death penalty, militants may be using child soldiers - May 15, 2024

2024/5/15
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With South Africa’s general election just two weeks away, some polls suggest the governing African National Congress could get less than 50 percent of the vote for the first time in 30 years. Human rights activists in Nigeria are criticizing a new bid put forward by Nigerian lawmakers to punish drug trafficking with the death penalty. Human Rights Watch says an armed group allegedly linked to the Islamic State militants used boys as young as 13 to raid and loot the northern Mozambique town of Macomia in Cabo Delgado province.