Residents of Ntoyo, a village in DR Congo’s perennially volatile east, were preparing for a funeral on Monday when a column of armed men emerged from the forest and slaughtered 71 people, burning some of them alive. “There were very young soldiers in the group,” said 16-year-old Jean-Claude Mumbere, who survived the massacre by ADF (Allied …
Jihadists have set up roadblocks in the south and west of landlocked Mali near the borders with Senegal and Mauritania where vital goods are imported daily.Mali has battled a security crisis for over a decade fuelled by violence by groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) as well as local criminal gangs, which …
Jihadist blockades disrupt trade, travel in landlocked MaliThu, 11 Sep 2025 11:50:57 GMT Read More »
Malawi, a poor southern African country mired in a deep economic crisis, holds presidential and legislative elections on September 16. Here are five things to know about the small country home to around 21 million people. – Dire poverty -It is one of the world’s poorest countries. According to the World Bank, 71 percent of its people lived …
Five things to know about MalawiThu, 11 Sep 2025 05:45:40 GMT Read More »
Malawians vote for a new president next week in an election clouded by economic hardship as incumbent Lazarus Chakwera squares off against his predecessor in a race where few voters see a real alternative.Three of the 17 candidates for the September 16 polls have already served as president of the southern African nation and another …
Malawians head to polls in economic despairThu, 11 Sep 2025 05:37:04 GMT Read More »
Ghana is accepting west Africans deported from the United States, Ghanaian President John Mahama said Wednesday.Deporting people to third countries — in many cases places they’ve never lived — has been a hallmark of US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, notably by sending hundreds to a notorious prison in El Salvador.Mahama told reporters …
Ghana accepting west Africans deported from USWed, 10 Sep 2025 23:35:22 GMT Read More »
Some 25 civilians killed in the eastern DR Congo were buried Wednesday, an AFP journalist witnessed, following twin raids linked to the Islamic State group that left at least 89 dead earlier this week.Fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which pledged allegiance to IS in 2019, have killed more than 150 civilians in the …
Victims buried after IS-linked attack in DR CongoWed, 10 Sep 2025 20:30:05 GMT Read More »
South African prosecutors said Wednesday they will reopen an inquest into the death of prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, nearly 50 years after he died in police custody.Biko, founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, died in a prison cell in 1977 aged just 30, after being beaten into a coma by police who had …
South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquestWed, 10 Sep 2025 16:29:00 GMT Read More »
The main defence lawyer for Ugandan rebel chief Joseph Kony Wednesday urged International Criminal Court judges to freeze the case against his client, as he cannot challenge evidence in his absence.Peter Haynes said he had the “paradoxical mandate” of representing Kony’s interests without having any way of receiving his client’s instructions.The fugitive warlord faces 39 …
Kony defence urges ICC judges to halt caseWed, 10 Sep 2025 13:56:27 GMT Read More »
Egypt forward Omar Marmoush could miss Sunday’s Manchester derby after the Manchester City player suffered a knee ligament injury while on international duty.Marmoush was due to have an X-ray on his arrival in Cairo on Wednesday after he was substituted in the fourth minute of Egypt’s goalless draw with Burkina Faso in a World Cup …
Marmoush a doubt for Manchester derbyWed, 10 Sep 2025 07:52:30 GMT Read More »
Abou Fofana spent his student years making the most of the opportunities on offer in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s bustling economic capital of six million people.But after finishing his studies and newly qualified in farming, the 33-year-old decided to move back to his hometown in the country’s west.Sangouine, a fraction of Abidjan’s size with 63,000 inhabitants, …
Young Ivorian workers snub Abidjan to settle in rural westWed, 10 Sep 2025 06:50:42 GMT Read More »
