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The number of migrants arriving in Spain’s Canary Islands by boat from West Africa hit a new annual record in 2024 for the second year in a row, official data showed on Tuesday.With controls tightening in the Mediterranean, the Canaries route has become a favourite for people fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa, mostly on overcrowded, barely …

Spain’s Canary Islands breaks migrant record in 2024Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:38:39 GMT Read More »

Namibia was headed for its first woman president with two-thirds of the votes from last week’s election counted by early Tuesday, giving the governing party candidate a strong lead in a vote the main opposition has already rejected as a sham.Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah from the SWAPO party that has led the mineral-rich country since …

Namibia’s ruling party candidate ahead with two-thirds of votes inTue, 03 Dec 2024 06:50:33 GMT Read More »

US President Joe Biden is in Angola on Tuesday for the first and only visit to sub-Saharan Africa of his presidency, which is focused on a major infrastructure project that is a counterpoint to China’s investments.Biden arrived in the oil-rich Portuguese-speaking country late Monday for a two-day visit centred on a multinational project to rehabilitate a …

Biden kicks off two-day Angola visitTue, 03 Dec 2024 06:21:20 GMT Read More »

Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Monday said he would remain head of the government rather than preside over the parliament, after his party’s landslide election win sparked questions over his political role.The ruling Pastef party of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Sonko won 130 seats in the 165-seat national assembly in snap parliamentary elections …

Senegal PM says will remain head of govt after speculationMon, 02 Dec 2024 21:37:34 GMT Read More »

A stampede at a football match dedicated to Guinea’s junta chief killed at least 56 people, the government said Monday, as the opposition accused the military-led authorities of being “directly responsible” for the tragedy.Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah, whom junta leader General Mamadi Doumbouya dispatched to the scene, Monday evening said there would be three …

Stampede kills at least 56 at Guinea football matchMon, 02 Dec 2024 20:45:18 GMT Read More »

The Belgian state was ordered Monday to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly placed in an orphanage 70 years ago under a colonial-era practice that judges said constituted a crime against humanity.Reversing an earlier ruling that found too much time had passed since the alleged wrongdoing, the Brussels appeals court said the women, …

Victims win reparations over abduction by colonial-era BelgiumMon, 02 Dec 2024 16:39:36 GMT Read More »

The Belgian state was ordered Monday to pay reparations to five mixed-race women who were forcibly placed in an orphanage 70 years ago under a colonial-era practice that judges said constituted a crime against humanity.Reversing an earlier ruling that found too much time had passed since the alleged wrongdoing, the Brussels appeals court said the women, …

Belgium loses case against women taken from mothers in colonial eraMon, 02 Dec 2024 12:56:26 GMT Read More »

Over the last year, retired Ghanaian school master Richard Tagoe watched his life savings evaporate as Ghana renegotiated its debt in an IMF deal and slashed the value of his bonds.For many like Tagoe, the management of the economy will be key when they vote on December 7 to replace President Nana Akufo-Addo who steps …

Ghana’s economy dominates tight election raceMon, 02 Dec 2024 11:30:55 GMT Read More »

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former colonial master acknowledged this week had been a “massacre”.Heads of state from Mauritania, the Comoros, Gabon, the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau, and France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot joined Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye who has used …

Senegal marks 80th anniversary of troop killings after France acknowleges colonial ‘massacre’Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:00:31 GMT Read More »

Outgoing US President Joe Biden is headed to the southern African country of Angola this week, fulfilling a key promise in a bid to shore up ties with the continent.Biden, who will stay in capital city Luanda from Monday to Wednesday, will be the first US president to visit the oil-rich country since it won …

With Angola trip, Biden fulfills his promise to visit sub-Saharan AfricaSun, 01 Dec 2024 10:01:12 GMT Read More »