Conflict between M23 rebels and government forces is intensifying in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Masisi territory, local sources said, with six killed on Wednesday and many more injured.Tensions in Masisi have displaced residents of many villages and overwhelmed health centres, according to humanitarian sources.Residents pointed to the town of Sake, a strategic point on the …
Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, the ruling party’s presidential candidate for December’s election, opened his campaign on Wednesday touting his economic management record, digitalisation programme and promises for job creation.Ghana’s presidential election is set to be a tight race between Bawumia, the New Patriotic Party’s first Muslim candidate, and former president John Mahama of the …
Ndeye Fatou Fall picked up her phone and logged into Facebook to follow the latest developments in the crisis rocking Senegal, triggered by President Macky Sall’s postponement of the presidential election.  “The arrests are starting again. They’re arresting everyone. In this case, it’s MP Abass Fall who’s just been arrested,” said the activist, better known as …
The vote to delay Senegal’s presidential election until December “cannot be considered legitimate”, the US state department said, after the move plunged the normally stable West African nation into its worst crisis in decades.The reaction is the most critical to date from one of Senegal’s major international allies, after the delay to the February 25 …
Sudan’s warring sides have agreed to meet for talks on enabling desperately needed aid delivery in their conflict-torn country, the United Nations said on Wednesday.The UN also appealed for $4.1 billion to help civilians impacted by the brutal 10-month civil war in Sudan, warning the conflict had fuelled “epic suffering”.The brutal conflict that erupted in …
Sudan’s warring sides agree to meet on aid access: UNWed, 07 Feb 2024 15:14:28 GMT Read More »
Two firms, Singapore-based Trafigura and Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines, signed a major deal on Wednesday to export copper along a US-backed rail route from the Democratic Republic of Congo.The corridor to the Angolan port of Lobito has been part-funded by Washington as part of its efforts to help Western companies compete with China for access to …
Chris Pappas doesn’t look like a typical politician in South Africa’s key electoral battleground, the populous province of KwaZulu-Natal.Thirty years after democracy was won, South Africa’s leadership is still dominated by black veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle.Pappas, however, is a young-looking 32, born more than a year-and-a-half after Nelson Mandela was released from prison — …
The election pitch of South Africa’s white ZuluWed, 07 Feb 2024 06:56:04 GMT Read More »
It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Ghana’s capital Accra. Finally, their catch emerges — a colossal barracuda and a less welcome bounty of bundles of discarded clothing.Where once nets teemed with fish, they are now tangled with tonnes …
Ghana struggling with tsunami of secondhand clothesWed, 07 Feb 2024 03:56:58 GMT Read More »
Senegal’s opposition on Tuesday denounced a “constitutional coup” after parliament voted to delay the presidential election by 10 months, plunging the country into its worst crisis in decades.West African bloc ECOWAS said it “encourages” Senegal, a member state, to urgently restore the electoral timetable, adding it was following events “with concern”.Lawmakers backed postponing this month’s …
Sitting atop piles of second-hand clothes in Dakar’s teeming Colobane market, salesman Assane Fall said he was “hurting” after the parliament’s decision to postpone Senegal’s presidential election.Like many residents of the capital interviewed by AFP on Tuesday, Fall was proud of his country’s long-cherished democratic principles, making it a peaceful outlier in coup-hit West Africa.But …
