Italy has handed over to France the man accused of stabbing a young Malian to death in a mosque two weeks ago, a French prosecutor said Friday.Aboubakar Cisse was stabbed dozens of times while attending prayers at the mosque in the southern French town of La Grand-Combe on April 25.Olivier Hadzovic, a 20-year-old French national …
South Africa had “expressed concern” to the United States after reports it will accept from next week the first white Afrikaners it had offered to resettle, the foreign ministry said Friday.US media reported Thursday that Donald Trump’s administration plans to welcome the first group of white South Africans as early as Monday, after the US …
Adele Koue Sungbeu underwent female genital mutilation as a teenager but now holds her head up high and smiles broadly as she walks to work in Abidjan after reconstructive surgery.The 45-year-old midwife is one of 28 women from the west African country who underwent the procedure last month in a public hospital in Ivory Coast’s …
Ivorian women fight FGM with reconstructive surgeryFri, 09 May 2025 16:04:53 GMT Read More »
Worshippers in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to Africa’s biggest Catholic populations, on Friday voiced joy over the new pope’s election and hopes he would carry on the legacy of his liberal predecessor.In the Congolese capital, the election of Pope Leo XIV drew particular interest as the city’s archbishop had been seen …
African worshippers hope Pope Leo carries on Francis’s workFri, 09 May 2025 12:21:17 GMT Read More »
Joyce Lokonyi sits on an upturned bucket, fingers weaving palm fronds as the wind pulls her dress to expose the stump of her amputated foot, lost to a little-known disease ravaging Kenya’s poorest county.Mycetoma is a fungal or bacterial infection that enters the body through any open wound, often as tiny as a thorn prick.Starting …
Martha Karua, among the first to declare a run for the Kenyan presidency in 2027, told AFP the country is in “total disarray” due to corruption, police killings and economic decline.Karua served in government in the 2000s and, as a lawyer, has lately represented jailed opposition figures in neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda.She hopes to harness …
Robert Francis Prevost became the first pope from the United States on Thursday, picking the papal name Leo XIV after cardinals from around the world elected him leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.Tens of thousands of people packed in St Peter’s Square cheered as Prevost appeared on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica, waving …
Prevost becomes first US pope as Leo XIVThu, 08 May 2025 17:33:44 GMT Read More »
Chinese-made weapons supplied by the United Arab Emirates have been identified with Sudan’s paramilitaries, Amnesty International said Thursday, as drone attacks prompted civilians to flee the army-held aid hub of Port Sudan.The Britain-based watchdog said that its research had detailed the use by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of sophisticated Chinese-made artillery and guided bombs …
Paramilitary drone strikes targeting Sudan’s wartime capital have sought to shatter the regular army’s sense of security and open a dangerous new chapter in the war, experts say.Since April 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group has been at war with the army, which has lately recaptured some territory and dislodged the paramilitaries from the …
Drones drag Sudan war into dangerous new territoryThu, 08 May 2025 16:00:29 GMT Read More »
The head of Ivory Coast’s main opposition party on Thursday claimed the government was trying to silence dissent before upcoming presidential elections, as crowds gathered to protest his ban from standing.A court in the west African country last month barred Tidjane Thiam from being a candidate in the October 25 vote, saying he lost Ivorian …
