West African heads of state on Sunday chose Nigeria’s new President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lead their regional bloc for the next year, replacing Guinea-Bissau’s leader Umaro Sissoco Embalo, AFP journalists reported.Speaking at a summit in Bissau after being named chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Tinubu said democracy was “the …

West African bloc names Nigeria’s Tinubu as new headSun, 09 Jul 2023 22:43:38 GMT Read More »

Pope Francis said on Sunday he would appoint 21 new cardinals from across the world at the end of September as he seeks to leave his imprint on the papacy.The upcoming assembly of cardinals, scheduled for September 30 and known as a consistory, will be the ninth for Pope Francis, 86, who became pope a …

Pope to create new cardinals who will choose his successorSun, 09 Jul 2023 18:42:01 GMT Read More »

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Sunday that next month’s BRICS summit, which Vladimir Putin has been invited to attend, will be held in-person despite an arrest warrant on the Russian leader.South Africa is the current chair of the BRICS, a grouping of heavyweights that also includes Brazil, Russia, India and China to challenge the …

BRICS summit to be ‘physical’ despite Putin warrant: S.AfricaSun, 09 Jul 2023 18:04:49 GMT Read More »

Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba has defied doubters after years in his father’s shadow and dispelled rumours of his demise due to ill health with the announcement Sunday that he will run for a third term.The 64-year-old Bongo, who suffered a stroke five years ago, has been the subject of fevered speculation around his health …

Gabonese President Ali Bongo defies illness, father’s shadowSun, 09 Jul 2023 17:02:51 GMT Read More »

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba said on Sunday that he would seek a third term as the oil-rich African nation’s head of state.The Bongo family has ruled the country for 55 years already and is branded a “dynastic power” by the opposition after Bongo, 64, took over from his father, Omar Bongo Ondimba in 2009.”I …

Gabon President Ali Bongo says will run for third termSun, 09 Jul 2023 16:16:46 GMT Read More »

Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo are pinning hopes for economic revival on the revamp of an iconic African railway connecting mineral-rich inland areas to the Atlantic Ocean.Earlier this week, Luanda and Kinshasa granted a group of investors a 30-year concession to operate the line linking Angola’s seaport of Lobito to Kolwezi, a southern …

Angola, DRC eye iconic rail revamp to quench global minerals thirstSun, 09 Jul 2023 13:34:28 GMT Read More »

Ons Jabeur thanked the rain after battling back from a set down to beat Canada’s Bianca Andreescu and reach the Wimbledon fourth round on Saturday.A single break in the first set cost last year’s finalist at the All England Club but she engineered a break of her own in the second set to level the …

Jabeur takes rain check as she reaches Wimbledon last 16Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:01:53 GMT Read More »

Kurt-Lee Arendse scored a hat-trick of tries as understrength South Africa crushed Australia 43-12 in Pretoria on Saturday in the first match of the Rugby Championship season.”It was really special to play in front of an amazing Loftus Versfeld crowd and get a win,” said the slightly built 27-year-old winger after receiving the man of …

Arendse scores three tries as South Africa crush AustraliaSat, 08 Jul 2023 18:44:18 GMT Read More »

One of the rare African-born figures to head a German cultural institution, Bonaventure Ndikung is aiming to highlight post-colonial multiculturalism at a Berlin arts centre with its roots in Western hegemony.The “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” (House of World Cultures), or HKW, was built by the Americans in 1956 during the Cold War for propaganda …

African-born director’s new vision for Berlin cultural magnetSat, 08 Jul 2023 17:53:31 GMT Read More »

The number of people killed in protests in Kenya rose to three on Saturday, a hospital official and two police officers told AFP, after opposition leader Raila Odinga urged Kenyans to take to the streets against tax hikes.Police on Friday fired tear gas in the capital Nairobi, targeting Odinga’s convoy, and took similar steps against …

Three killed in Kenya protests over tax increaseSat, 08 Jul 2023 16:02:17 GMT Read More »