Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo is confident he will easily win another term as he criss-crosses the country with a signature red and white keffiyeh wrapped around his head, meeting enthusiastic supporters ahead of Sunday’s vote.Embalo is only the second leader since the introduction of a multiparty system in the west African country to see …
Guinea-Bissau will elect its next president on Sunday, seeking to turn the page on a tumultuous history of coups and unrest with a vote that nonetheless lacks the country’s main opposition. Some 860,000 voters will choose between 12 candidates, including incumbent President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who is favourite to land a second five-year term.Voters in the …
South Africa will host the G20 summit this weekend, aiming to secure commitments on debt relief for developing countries and to tackle global inequalities as the United States boycotts the event.US President Donald Trump, who has clashed with South Africa over its G20 agenda, is skipping the summit amid a wider US retreat from multilateralism …
South Africa to host G20 summit boycotted by USWed, 19 Nov 2025 03:38:43 GMT Read More »
Nigerian forces hunted Tuesday for armed fighters who abducted 25 schoolgirls in the northwest, in the latest burst of violence seized upon by US President Donald Trump’s followers.The early Monday morning raid on a secondary school in Kebbi State was the latest abduction of schoolchildren in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria, more than a decade after Boko …
Nigeria school kidnapping draws fresh US ireTue, 18 Nov 2025 22:41:13 GMT Read More »
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Tuesday for Sahel nations to put aside their differences to tackle mounting attacks by armed groups in an African region beset by humanitarian crisis.Attacks by Islamist militants and other armed groups are raging across the politically divided Sahel region, which has seen a number of coups in recent years, with juntas …
Rap icon Nicki Minaj praised Donald Trump’s stand on the persecution of religious minorities on Tuesday, calling for an end to faith-based persecution in Nigeria, which the government there denies.Minaj, of “Starships” and “Super Bass” fame, spoke out at an event hosted by the US embassy to the United Nations and thanked Trump “for prioritizing …
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed Tuesday a G20-commissioned report proposing the sale of some of the IMF’s “hoard of gold” and a review of lending practices among measures to tackle Africa’s crippling debt.The proposals were included in an expert study commissioned for the first G20 summit in Africa which will bring around 20 heads …
Niger’s ruling General Abdourahamane Tiani has been criss-crossing the unstable country’s oft-poor highways in recent weeks, visiting regions hard-hit by the growing jihadist insurgency in an attempt to reassure fearful civilians.Since toppling democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum in a July 2023 coup, Tiani has been forced to contend with attacks from Islamist militants on multiple fronts. While …
Niger junta chief’s road trip bids to calm jihadist jittersTue, 18 Nov 2025 14:56:12 GMT Read More »
French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on Tuesday returned to France after a year-long imprisonment in Algeria that further strained troubled ties between Paris and its former colony, supporters and the French presidency said.Sansal, 81, travelled to France from Germany where he had been receiving medical treatment following his release last week brokered in talks between Algiers …
Novelist returns to France after imprisonment in AlgeriaTue, 18 Nov 2025 14:00:14 GMT Read More »
The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the west African nation said late on Monday. The move represents “the return of a huge part of Nigeria’s history,” Olugbile Holloway, the head of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) …
Boston museum returns two Benin Bronzes to NigeriaTue, 18 Nov 2025 09:29:55 GMT Read More »
