Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted more than two dozen African leaders at a banquet in Beijing on Wednesday, kicking off the city’s biggest summit in years with promises of cooperation in infrastructure, energy and education.China, the world’s number two economy, is Africa’s largest trading partner and has sought to tap the continent’s vast troves of …
For the past year Kebira Ait Bellaid has been living in a tent in a mountain village in Morocco, haunted by the memory of losing her daughter and three grandchildren.”I can still hear my nine-year-old grandson’s screams under the rubble,” the 52-year-old said, recalling the September 8 earthquake that devastated the area.”This earthquake has changed …
An attempted jail break from DR Congo’s largest prison has left at least 129 people dead and led to women being raped, the interior minister said Tuesday.The circumstances around the bid to bust out of the Makala prison in the capital Kinshasa, which holds 10 times the number it is meant to house, in the …
DR Congo jail break attempt leaves 129 deadWed, 04 Sep 2024 00:07:00 GMT Read More »
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine, a leading critic of authoritarian President Yoweri Museveni, was shot in the leg by police on Tuesday, according to his party, but police said he stumbled and hurt himself while getting into his car.A statement on Wine’s official account on X said the incident took place in Bulindo in central …
A Namibian government cull of more than 700 wildlife to cope with its worst drought in decades is under way, with nearly 160 animals already killed, the environment ministry said Tuesday.The government announced the cull last week to relieve pressure on grazing and water supplies, and to provide meat for programmes to support the thousands …
Namibia’s drought cull of more than 700 wildlife under wayTue, 03 Sep 2024 16:54:24 GMT Read More »
A Ugandan Olympian was in intensive care in Kenya on Tuesday suffering 80 percent burns after being doused with petrol and set on fire allegedly by her partner, the latest horrific incident of gender-based violence in the East African country.Long-distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei was assaulted after her Kenyan boyfriend Dickson Ndiema Marangach reportedly snuck into …
Botswana will hold general elections on October 30, the president of the stable and diamond-rich southern African country announced Tuesday.President Mokgweetsi Masisi, who is standing for a second five-year term, said in a televised address that October 30 and 31 would be public holidays to allow people to “vote in large numbers”. Parliament will be dissolved …
Botswana general election set for October 30Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:35:42 GMT Read More »
A Ugandan Olympian is in intensive care in a Kenyan hospital after being doused with petrol and set on fire allegedly by her partner, officials said Tuesday, the latest horrific incident of gender-based violence in the East African country.Long-distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei, 33, was assaulted after her Kenyan partner Dickson Ndiema Marangach reportedly snuck into …
Four years ago, Lagos was the epicentre of the largest anti-government demonstrations in Nigeria’s modern history when youths protested against police brutality. But economic hardship protests last month failed to take hold on a large scale in the country’s commercial capital or elsewhere in Africa’s most populous nation.Analysts say limited turnout in the megacity was a key …
Lagos grapples with failure of Nigeria’s hardship protestsTue, 03 Sep 2024 05:28:32 GMT Read More »
A dangerous, decaying megalopolis where abandoned cemeteries and a brothel provide refuge: South Africa’s gritty, apartheid-scarred city of Johannesburg is the star of Niq Mhlongo’s latest novel written from the fresh perspective of his new home in Europe.The award-winning writer was born in Johannesburg’s sprawling Soweto township 51 years ago and the dilapidated city still …
