The South Sudan government said on Friday that First Vice President Riek Machar was “under house arrest,” two days after he was detained, as a former Kenyan premier arrived in Juba to mediate the crisis threatening to end the fragile peace deal between rival factions.Machar’s arrest by forces loyal to President Salva Kiir prompted UN Chief …
For the second time in a row, police have banned the colourful Durbar festivities that mark Eid celebrations in Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest city, as two traditional royals struggle for the throne.Authorities on Friday announced the suspension of the massive horse procession by the traditional emir and his courtiers that celebrates Eid al-Fitr, when Muslims …
Kenya’s former prime minister Raila Odinga arrived in Juba on Friday to mediate the escalating crisis in South Sudan, which threatens to end the fragile peace deal between rival factions.First Vice President Riek Machar’s arrest on Wednesday evening by forces loyal to President Salva Kiir prompted UN chief Antonio Guterres to warn that the country …
Kenyan mediator in S.Sudan after arrest of vice presidentFri, 28 Mar 2025 12:29:28 GMT Read More »
Two women, put onto canvas through paint and collage, hold the world in their hands — and cast a spell on Nancy Keshinro.”I’m in love,” the art collector and gallery owner said, as the work — nearly as tall as she is — stopped her in her tracks at +234Art Fair in Lagos.She can’t stay …
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces the most intense challenge to his authority since taking power in a coup eight years ago, with infighting in his ruling party and public anger over a failing economy.In outright defiance of the 82-year-old leader, a one-time veteran of his ZANU-PF party has called for nationwide demonstrations on March 31.”The …
Infighting, discontent challenge Zimbabwe presidentFri, 28 Mar 2025 09:54:03 GMT Read More »
Wally Faye hoped his life would take off when Senegal’s youngest president swept to power promising radical change, but a year on, the 29-year-old still has no job and is unable to help his parents or get married.Unemployed since 2019 despite having a master’s in geography, Faye was among the many young Senegalese who voted …
Young Senegalese still await promised changeFri, 28 Mar 2025 07:26:06 GMT Read More »
Machines stand inert at a unit of construction firm CSE in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, due to plummeting orders and unpaid government bills that have almost halved its workforce.A year after the west African country’s new president took power promising economic and political sovereignty and sweeping reforms, his ambitious pledges have not helped the sector.A worker …
Hectares upon hectares of luxuriant orchards cover the land from which Bernard Shabangu’s ancestors were once brutally evicted by South Africa’s apartheid government.Thousands of families lived on these green hills near the Kruger National Park, 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of Johannesburg, until the early 1900s when colonial and subsequent apartheid regimes eroded the rights …
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces vowed on Thursday there would be “no retreat and no surrender” after rival troops of the regular army retook nearly all of central Khartoum.From inside the recaptured presidential palace, Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war with his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo since April 2023, had …
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces vowed on Thursday there would be “no retreat and no surrender” and said they had “repositioned” forces, after rival army troops recaptured nearly all of central Khartoum.From inside the recaptured presidential palace, Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war with his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo since …
