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Mauritania’s former economy minister Sidi Ould Tah was on Thursday elected to succeed Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina as president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and tackle the withdrawal of US financing from the institution.In 2015 Adesina took six rounds of voting to become Africa’s “super banker”, but Tah, 60, secured the prestigious post in only …

Mauritanian elected as Africa’s new ‘super banker’Thu, 29 May 2025 15:19:13 GMT Read More »

Ex-president Joseph Kabila was back in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday via Goma, an eastern city seized by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia whose lightning offensive the government accuses him of orchestrating.Kabila’s appearance comes despite the former president facing the possibility of a treason trial over his alleged support for the M23, which has …

Ex-leader Kabila back in DR Congo via M23-held cityThu, 29 May 2025 14:56:21 GMT Read More »

Mauritania’s former economy minister Sidi Ould Tah was on Thursday heading the race to become Africa’s next “super banker”, succeeding Nigeria’s Akinwumi Adesina as head of the African Development Bank.Five candidates began the contest in Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan but after two rounds of voting, Tah was out in front and close to securing …

Mauritanian candidate on track to become Africa’s next ‘super banker’Thu, 29 May 2025 12:52:33 GMT Read More »

The number of people killed in violence committed by jihadist groups and criminal gangs topped over 10,000 in two years in central and northern Nigeria, Amnesty International said Thursday.In a report, the global rights group blamed the government of President Bola Tinubu for failure to protect people in swathes of the country hit by raids …

Amnesty says over 10,000 killed in two years in north, central NigeriaThu, 29 May 2025 11:04:19 GMT Read More »

A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape Town, and has never been …

S.African woman gets life term for selling 6-year-old daughterThu, 29 May 2025 10:05:13 GMT Read More »

A cholera outbreak in Sudan’s war-ravaged capital has claimed 70 lives in two days, health officials said Thursday, as Khartoum faces a mounting health emergency after more than two years of brutal conflict.The health ministry for Khartoum state said it recorded 942 new infections and 25 deaths on Wednesday, following 1,177 cases and 45 deaths …

Cholera outbreak in Sudan capital kills 70 in two daysThu, 29 May 2025 09:19:48 GMT Read More »

A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape Town, and has never been …

S.African woman gets life term for selling 6-year-old daughterThu, 29 May 2025 09:03:51 GMT Read More »

A series of attacks in northern Mozambique this month point to a resurgence of violence by Islamic State-linked militants as energy giant TotalEnergies prepares to resume a major gas project, analysts say.The group terrorised northern Mozambique for years before brazenly vowing in 2020 to turn the northern gas-rich Cabo Delgado province into a caliphate. TotalEnergies paused …

Jihadist attacks hit Mozambique as Total readies to resume gas projectThu, 29 May 2025 08:03:43 GMT Read More »

When Assita Kanko was 10 years old, she pictured herself as president of her native Burkina Faso — with a mission to stamp out female genital mutilation, and further women’s rights.As it turned out, she sits as a Belgian lawmaker in the ranks of the hard-right in the European Parliament, and says that suits her …

From Burkina to Belgium, fighting women’s corner from benches of hard-rightThu, 29 May 2025 06:04:05 GMT Read More »

In a field of paprika plants in the heart of Zimbabwe, fourth-generation farmer Daniel Burger and relative newcomer Miriam Mupambawashe discuss the quality of the crop.Burger, 36, and Mupambawashe, 59, are neighbours and partners in efforts to revive the country’s once-flourishing agriculture sector cut down by a ruinous land reform drive in the 2000s.The reform …

Zimbabwe’s farmers push on as land grab compensation floundersThu, 29 May 2025 05:40:35 GMT Read More »