Rights activists on Tuesday accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), where presidential and parliamentary elections are due to be held in August, of disclosing the phone numbers of voters who they said had received “intimidation” messages from the ruling party. According to local NGO Team Pachedu, voters, some of them newly registered, have received personalized text messages in Shona (the… Read More

Dakar is seeking to identify the remains of “about twenty” Senegalese who drowned at the end of March in the sinking of their boat off Tunisia, said an official statement on Monday. A Senegalese mission went to Sfax, the starting point in central-eastern Tunisia of the shipwrecked boat, for a mission to identify the bodies, according to a press release… Read More

Every March, sour orange trees are in full bloom in Nabeul, the Tunisian city known for this fruit which is also called ‘bigarade orange’. Samia Marzoug is busy harvesting the flowers off the trees in her yard. The flowers are sought for their strong and sublime fragrance. In Tunisia, they are widely used in the preparation of meals. “I am… Read More

Investment migration consultancy Henley & Partners has published its annual ranking of African cities with the most wealthy residents in its Africa Wealth Report, in collaboration with New World Wealth. The report provides a comprehensive review of private wealth in Africa, including trends in high-net-worth individuals, luxury and wealth management, as well as expert insights on investing in Africa, the… Read More

The EU Foreign Policy Chief said on Tuesday that the EU and the US were monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement in Ethiopia and will only gradually restore their relations with Addis Ababa. “First of all, in Ethiopia, this was a major crisis and now, fortunately, things start to move toward solving it. That’s one of the rare good… Read More