Moroccan student Said Rifai, 15, is on a mission to help his peers pursue education in a country where an estimated 270,000 children drop out of school each year.”We must help them come back,” said Rifai, who goes to middle school in Tiflet, a town east of the capital Rabat, and has already helped several …
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed a peace agreement Friday in Washington to end fighting that has killed thousands, with the two countries pledging to pull back support for guerrillas — and President Donald Trump boasting of securing mineral wealth.”Today, the violence and destruction comes to an end, and the entire region begins …
Rwanda, DR Congo sign peace deal in US after rebel sweepSat, 28 Jun 2025 00:20:52 GMT Read More »
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday he has been in contact with the warring sides in Sudan to try to reach a ceasefire in the besieged and starving city of El-Fasher.Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has agreed in principle to such a humanitarian pause, his ruling Transitional Council said.But the opposing paramilitary side, led …
UN working for ceasefire in besieged Sudan cityFri, 27 Jun 2025 19:49:47 GMT Read More »
Mozambique’s human rights commission said on Friday it has opened an investigation into media reports of deadly abuses by government soldiers against villagers fleeing jihadist unrest near a major TotalEnergies gas plant.Politico reported in September that soldiers tasked with protecting the French fossil fuel giant’s site had rounded up villagers following a major attack in …
Hundreds gathered on Friday in rural Liberia for the state funeral of authoritarian former leader Samuel Doe decades after his assassination, a reconciliation effort the president described as meant to help the nation heal.Doe’s brutal 1990 torture and murder were an early turning point in the two bloody civil wars that killed around 250,000 people …
A strike by elementary school teachers in Nigeria’s capital is dragging into its fourth month, as workers demand to be paid the minimum wage enacted almost a year ago but yet to be implemented.Affecting more than 400 schools in Abuja, the prolonged closure has left over 50,000 pupils without lessons, according to the teachers’ union, …
Hundreds of people gathered Friday in rural Liberia for the state funeral of authoritarian former president Samuel Doe 35 years after his assassination, part of the country’s ongoing reconciliation efforts over its violent past.Doe’s brutal 1990 torture and murder were an early turning point in the two civil wars that killed around 250,000 people and …
In an unlikely Ethiopian outpost of one the most French of pastimes, four men are leaning over their petanque balls, arguing over who is winning.Petanque, the bowling game also known as boules,is more readily associated with French village squares where locals launch metal balls at a jack while enjoying an afternoon drink. But for decades, it …
It only took two days for Nigeria to raise $59 million through green bonds — part of a funding drive for climate and environmental projects in a nation still hooked on oil.Africa remains a small player in the green bond market, and the debt instrument is underused — but it is becoming a fast-growing source …
Green bonds offer hope, and risk, in Africa’s climate fightFri, 27 Jun 2025 06:31:22 GMT Read More »
Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long roamed desert plains, seemingly unaware of the existential threat to their dwindling breed.The Sloughis, known for their speed and slender physique, have for many centuries accompanied nomadic societies across North Africa, and have been featured …
