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Gabon votes on Saturday to pick a president with junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema the hot favourite to become the oil-rich country’s first elected leader since his August 2023 coup.Nineteen months after he ended more than five decades of Bongo dynastic rule widely viewed as corrupt, the 50-year-old career soldier has predicted a “historic victory” for himself …

Gabon elects new president with junta chief frontrunnerWed, 09 Apr 2025 05:39:44 GMT Read More »

Title-holders Al Ahly won, fellow Egyptian club Pyramids lost and Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa drew in away games as they all booked CAF Champions League semi-finals slots on Tuesday. Emam Ashour scored on 80 minutes as record 12-time African champions Ahly beat homeless Sudanese side Al Hilal 1-0 in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott for a …

African champions Ahly, Pyramids, Sundowns reach semi-finalsTue, 08 Apr 2025 21:42:47 GMT Read More »

The United States supports effort to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo but will not get involved in discussions, a US special envoy insisted Tuesday. Massad Boulos spoke in Kigali as DR Congo authorities announced that three Americans sentenced to death over a  foiled coup had their punishments commuted to life jail terms and …

US backs — but will not get involved in — DR Congo peace talks: Trump envoyTue, 08 Apr 2025 21:01:58 GMT Read More »

Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, the EU agency that monitors climate change said on Tuesday, prolonging an unprecedented heat streak that has pushed the bounds of scientific explanation. In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That drove rainfall extremes across a …

World’s ‘exceptional’ heat streak lengthens into MarchTue, 08 Apr 2025 15:05:47 GMT Read More »

Former Ivory Coast foreign minister and veteran diplomat Amara Essy, who was often mistaken for football legend Pele during his stint in Brazil, has died aged 80, state television said Tuesday.Essy was a confidant of Ivory Coast’s founder president Felix Houphouet-Boigny and served as foreign minister during the entire 1990s.He was also general secretary of …

Former I.Coast foreign minister and veteran diplomat Amara Essy deadTue, 08 Apr 2025 14:05:18 GMT Read More »

Somaliland’s opposition leader has won the presidency of the breakaway region of Somalia, according to election results released Tuesday, an outcome that signalled a rejection of the establishment and a call for change.The territory’s decades-long push for international recognition is likely to be a top priority when Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, popularly known as “Irro”, takes …

Breakaway Somaliland’s opposition leader wins presidential pollTue, 08 Apr 2025 11:52:45 GMT Read More »

Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe’s climate monitor said on Tuesday, prolonging an extraordinary heat streak that has tested scientific expectations.In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service, driving rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other.The world meanwhile …

Global temperatures at near historic highs in March: EU monitorTue, 08 Apr 2025 02:04:53 GMT Read More »

Boeing has reached a last-minute settlement to avoid a civil trial that was due to start Monday over the fatal 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX plane, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said.The Chicago trial was to feature two plaintiffs who lost family members in the calamity, but both cases were settled on Sunday evening, …

Boeing settles to avoid civil trial over Ethiopian Airlines crashMon, 07 Apr 2025 19:03:19 GMT Read More »

Angry residents vented their frustration at DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday after losing their homes in weekend flash floods in the capital Kinshasa that have killed at least 33 people. Flooding frequently proves deadly in Kinshasa, which sits on the banks of the Congo River, Africa’s second largest after the Nile.Poor maintenance and inadequate …

DR Congo president meets irate Kinshasa flood victimsMon, 07 Apr 2025 18:00:09 GMT Read More »

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday that countries sanctioning Kigali could “go to hell”, weeks after some nations imposed the measures over Rwanda’s involvement in the eastern DR Congo conflict.The Rwandan-backed M23 group has taken swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing and holding the eastern regional capitals Goma and Bukavu, to international condemnation.United …

Kagame tells countries sanctioning Rwanda to ‘go to hell’Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:57:23 GMT Read More »