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Without a last-minute diplomatic intervention, Nigeria’s youth basketball team would have missed an international competition in South Africa last month.Nigerian officials claimed South Africa had tried to stop the under-18 team from participating — the latest row in long-simmering tensions between the two African economic heavyweights.Recently the discord has spilled over into sports, music, ride-sharing …

How Nigeria-South Africa rivalry turned uglyFri, 04 Oct 2024 14:35:25 GMT Read More »

A senior Guinean official has warned that anyone attacking the image of the country’s ruler would meet the fate of a doctor who died in jail after being held for allegedly burning his portrait.The prefect of the eastern Kankan region, Kandia Mara, caused a furore after videos surfaced on social media of him apparently warning …

Top Guinean official threatens anyone attacking junta leaderFri, 04 Oct 2024 14:32:28 GMT Read More »

A spoon, some towel hooks, a piece of kettle and a plastic cap — that’s all you’ll need to make a mixing deck if you have the technical and musical skills of DJ Boboss.The 27-year-old — real name Paul Mwangi — has been building up a fanbase online and on the streets of Kenya with …

Spoon scratching: Kenya’s DIY DJFri, 04 Oct 2024 05:26:20 GMT Read More »

When an Israeli air strike killed her employer and destroyed nearly everything she owned in southern Lebanon, it also crushed Fatima Samuella Tholley’s hopes of returning home to Sierra Leone to escape the spiralling violence.With a change of clothes stuffed into a plastic bag, the 27-year-old housekeeper told AFP that she and her cousin made …

‘We don’t want to die here’: Sierra Leone migrants trapped in LebanonFri, 04 Oct 2024 05:24:56 GMT Read More »

The barring of independent election observers from Sunday’s presidential vote in Tunisia reflects a broad crackdown on rights groups ahead of the ballot which President Kais Saied is widely expected to win, activists say.The Tunisian electoral board, ISIE, says it will not allow observers from I Watch and Mourakiboun to monitor the vote, alleging they …

Lack of election observers for Tunisia vote reflects crackdownFri, 04 Oct 2024 02:34:09 GMT Read More »

President Kais Saied, elected democratically before staging a power grab in 2021, sees himself as a man on a divine mission for Tunisia, but critics see him as ushering in a new authoritarian regime.Clean-shaven, with an unwaveringly upright and slender figure, Saied has a stiff demeanour and no social media account.He has given very few …

Tunisia’s Kais Saied: president on a ‘divine mission’Fri, 04 Oct 2024 02:33:45 GMT Read More »

Tanzania suspended the online operations of a leading newspaper on Thursday after it released cartoons featuring the president and referencing recent abductions and killings of dissidents.One of the animated videos released online earlier this week by The Citizen showed President Samia Suluhu Hassan watching news broadcasts of dissidents and victims of state repression.Hassan has faced mounting …

Tanzania suspends newspaper over animations featuring presidentThu, 03 Oct 2024 11:28:02 GMT Read More »

President Emmanuel Macron this week hosts dozens of leaders of French-speaking countries for a summit he hopes will help boost French influence in a world beset by crises, in particular Africa.The leaders will gather Friday and Saturday for the “Francophonie” summit, the first time the event has been held in France for 33 years. Macron …

Macron hosts Francophone leaders in bid to boost French cloutThu, 03 Oct 2024 11:26:50 GMT Read More »

In northern Ivory Coast, thousands of refugees from neighbouring Burkina Faso have fled two threats — jihadist attacks, and massacres committed by army-backed militiamen who target the Fulani community.A year ago, the night that gunmen showed up at Ami G.’s village near Titao, in northern Burkina Faso, she and her six children left everything behind …

‘They even murder children’: Burkinabes caught in conflict crossfireThu, 03 Oct 2024 05:46:02 GMT Read More »

The Senegalese town of Kayar sits on the doorstep of the vast Atlantic Ocean, but it is a farm located further inland that provides part of its fish production.The farm’s pioneering founder, Khadidiatou Sar Seck, began the project around 15 years ago in the West African country, where fishing is a key part of the …

Senegal looks to aquaculture as fish stocks dwindleThu, 03 Oct 2024 05:25:21 GMT Read More »