After seizing the biggest city in eastern DR Congo, the Rwandan-backed armed group M23 was advancing south through a neighbouring province on Friday, as young men volunteered to fight against it alongside the struggling Congolese army.The group took Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, after intense fighting earlier this week and has vowed to …
In a village nestled in the mountains of northeastern Algeria, locals and visitors gathered under a cold winter sky to celebrate Tamechrit, a centuries-old Berber tradition rooted in sharing.Seeking to preserve a practice that faded during the Algerian civil war of the 1990s, villagers marked Tamechrit with Berber music and food on the occasion coinciding …
Sudan’s paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, in a rare video address on Friday, acknowledged setbacks in the capital Khartoum but vowed to expel the army from the city again.The war since April 2023 between Daglo’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the army has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted more than 12 million, according …
President Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday welcomed the “definitive and complete departure” of French forces from Chad which marks the end of France’s last foothold in the wider jihadist-hit Sahel region.After a closed-door military ceremony a day earlier, Deby addressed Chadian forces and diplomats at an event in the capital N’Djamena.The handover of the Kossei …
Chad leader welcomes ‘complete’ departure of French forcesFri, 31 Jan 2025 11:43:36 GMT Read More »
The Rwandan-backed armed group M23 moved south as it closed in on a key military airport in DR Congo on Friday, a day after pledging to take the capital Kinshasa and as international criticism mounted.The group’s capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, earlier in the week was a dramatic escalation …
Screeching off East Africa’s only ice rink, the skates of Kenya’s Ice Lions scatter frozen chips of ice as they celebrate their first title win in the capital Nairobi.Ice hockey only arrived in Kenya in 2006, after a group of bored Canadians set up the Nairobi rink — but it was not until 2019 that …
Kenya’s Ice Lions skate to win on East Africa’s only rinkFri, 31 Jan 2025 07:42:05 GMT Read More »
Once an emblematic landmark of traditional west African architecture, Dakar’s fondly remembered Sandaga market can now only be marvelled at through old photographs.Sandaga is just one of the many historic buildings in Senegal’s ever-expanding capital victim either to the march of modernisation or the clamour for greater profits from property developers.The distinctive concrete market hall …
The Rwanda-backed armed group M23 vowed on Thursday to march on the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa, as its fighters made further advances in the mineral-rich east of the country.The group’s capture of most of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, is a dramatic escalation in a region that has seen decades of conflict involving …
A court in Benin on Thursday sentenced two former allies of President Patrice Talon to 20 years in jail on charges of “conspiring against the authority of the state”.Neither Olivier Boko, an influential businessman long considered to be Talon’s right-hand man, nor former sports minister Oswald Homeky had lawyers representing them at the trial’s conclusion.Boko, …
Benin court jails two ex-allies of president for 20 yearsThu, 30 Jan 2025 18:31:51 GMT Read More »
Strewn with rubble from mortar and artillery fire, the eastern DR Congo city of Goma awoke on Thursday to a new abnormal — hiding from bandits and counting the dead.Fighting has all but ceased between Congolese soldiers and the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group, which captured most of Goma on Sunday — a dramatic escalation in …
