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Last updated: 4 hours ago Hundreds of Sudanese protesters took to the streets Saturday demanding the dissolution of the transitional government, saying it had failed them economically and politically. The protests came as Sudan’s political scene reels from divisions among factions steering the country through a rocky transition following the April 2019 ouster of president Omar al-Bashir after mass protests… Read More

Laurent Gbagbo, with a decade-long exile behind him, this weekend embarks on a path he hopes will return him to Ivory Coast’s presidency at the helm of a new party. “This is the grand return of Laurent Gbagbo to the political scene,” his spokesman Justin Kone Katinan told AFP ahead of the launch. Gbagbo will oversee the new party’s congress… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Russia and China continued naval drills in the Sea of Japan after an incident between Russian and US warships. Russia’s Defense Ministry said a Russian warship on Friday prevented a U.S. Navy destroyer from what it described as an attempt to intrude into Russia’s territorial waters. Hours later, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command called the Russian statement… Read More

Hundreds of Sudanese called Saturday in Khartoum for the fall of the government that is supposed to lead the country to its first elections after 30 years of dictatorship, accusing it of having “failed” to get them out of the political and economic stagnation, AFP reporters noted. Yahya Mohieddine, who came from his northern province to demonstrate in front of… Read More

Cape Verde votes in presidential elections on Sunday marked by debate over the future of a country battered by a slump in global tourism and worried by surging inflation. Nearly 400,000 voters, including over 50,000 outside the country, will choose a successor to Jorge Carlos Fonseca, head of state since 2011. There will be seven names on the ballot paper,… Read More

Burkina Faso commemorated Friday the 34th anniversary of the death of former revolutionary president Thomas Sankara, assassinated on October 15, 1987, and whose bust was unveiled at the university that bears his name in Ouagadougou, in the presence of his widow Mariam. “This work placed at the entrance of the university is a work of remembrance and memory for current… Read More

Beneath the defiant flag of their self-declared republic, young Somalilanders considered life as fresh university graduates in their unrecognised homeland — a country in name only, proud but alone in the Horn of Africa. These students were not yet born when Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991, an act still unrecognised by the international community that has left the… Read More

Last updated: 14 hours ago A day after clashes that took the lives of 7 people, injured dozens and a moment that took many Lebanese to the days of civil war, a tense calm now ensues in the street as people clean up the mess. Residents in the Tayouneh area of Beirut were most of the fighting played out swept… Read More

Police in Kenya said a man who had confessed to killing a dozen children and escaped from detention this week has been killed by a mob. Area Assistant County Commissioner Cornelius Nyariba said the death took place near his home in Bungoma county a day after he had escaped from police cells in Nairobi. “…… They asked us whether he… Read More

In this boxing ring is 50 year old Abdoul Aziz Ousseïni, alias “Aziz”, a former heavyweight boxing champion in Niger, giving instructions to some young boys, whom he recruited from the streets of the Niamey. “I’ve used boxing to rescue young people who have been a bit abandoned. Even though they call them ‘street children’, the street has no children.… Read More