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DR Congo’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday confirmed President Felix Tshisekedi’s landslide victory in a December election for a second term in the poor but mineral-rich massive central African country.Tshisekedi got 73.47 percent of vote during a December 20 election, the court said.The Democratic Republic of Congo held a presidential, legislative, regional and local election on …

DR Congo constitutional court confirms Tshisekedi victoryTue, 09 Jan 2024 20:28:16 GMT Read More »

Gambian former interior minister Ousman Sonko said Switzerland was not qualified to lecture on human rights as he took the stand for the first time  Tuesday as he denies charges of crimes against humanity.Sonko has been in Swiss custody ever since his arrest in January 2017 after applying for asylum following his sacking from the …

Gambian ex-minister takes stand in Swiss trial for crimes against humanityTue, 09 Jan 2024 17:19:02 GMT Read More »

Slain Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat will be laid to rest in his ancestral home in Kenya on Thursday, his family said.The 34-year-old Kenyan-born Olympian was found dead on a road on the outskirts of the Rift Valley town of Eldoret in the early hours of New Year’s Eve with a stab wound to his neck.Both …

Slain Ugandan athlete Kiplagat to be buried in Kenya ThursdayTue, 09 Jan 2024 14:23:45 GMT Read More »

Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court is set to decide Tuesday whether it can judge crimes against humanity allegedly committed before 2011, in the trial of a former Gambian minister.Ousman Sonko is accused of various crimes against humanity allegedly committed between 2000 and 2016 under the regime of former Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh.The trial is taking place …

Swiss court to decide on challenge in Gambian ex-minister’s trialTue, 09 Jan 2024 12:16:42 GMT Read More »

Newly crowned African Player of the Year Victor Osimhen is a star on a mission. He wants to transform the suffering of Nigerian supporters into joy with an Africa Cup of Nations title.The Napoli forward topped the African poll last month to finish ahead of Egyptian Mohamed Salah and Moroccan Achraf Hakimi and become the …

Osimhen dreams of AFCON title and end to Nigerian sufferingTue, 09 Jan 2024 04:11:19 GMT Read More »

Serial goal scorer Mohamed Salah has conquered the world, Europe and England with Liverpool. Now he dreams of leading Egypt to African glory.He has come agonisingly close twice with his country, being part of the teams that lost the 2017 and 2022 Africa Cup of Nations finals to Cameroon and Senegal respectively.In between reaching those …

Africa the next frontier for trophy hunter SalahTue, 09 Jan 2024 04:10:51 GMT Read More »

Since Sudan’s war spread to Al-Jazira state south of Khartoum, farmers have watched their livelihoods wither away after fighting between paramilitary forces battling the army wreaked havoc on once-bountiful lands.”For weeks I haven’t been able to reach the wheat I planted in November,” Ahmed al-Amin, 43, told AFP from his farm 20 kilometres (12 miles) …

Harvest lost as war expands in famine-threatened SudanTue, 09 Jan 2024 02:22:06 GMT Read More »

Salem Bazoum, the son of Niger president Mohamed Bazoum who was toppled in a coup last year, was provisionally released on Monday, according to a Niamey military tribunal.In a court document seen by AFP, Salem Bazoum was given “provisional release” after having been held with his parents since the presidential guard took power on July …

Son of Niger’s deposed president released on bail: Military tribunalTue, 09 Jan 2024 01:25:06 GMT Read More »

Alleged victims of political repression in Gambia hailed a landmark day for justice on Monday as former Interior Minister Ousman Sonko stood trial on charges of crimes against humanity committed under the regime of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh.Sonko, who denies the accusations, appeared at Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona.”We have been …

Anger, relief and tears as Gambian ex-minister faces Swiss trialMon, 08 Jan 2024 19:12:40 GMT Read More »

Ethiopia said it held talks Monday on military cooperation with Somaliland, just a week after a deal with the breakaway Somali region on sea access stoked tensions in the Horn of Africa.The discussions in Addis Ababa were held the same day Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud began a visit to neighbouring Eritrea.Somalia is seeking international …

Ethiopia holds military cooperation talks with SomalilandMon, 08 Jan 2024 18:27:30 GMT Read More »