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Last updated: 7 hours ago After eight years of planning and billions of dollars in spending, the Middle East’s first ever World Fair opened on Friday in Dubai, with hopes the months-long extravaganza draws both visitors and global attention to this desert-turned-dreamscape. Named Expo 2020, the event was postponed by a year due to the outbreak of the coronavirus last… Read More

Rwandan police said on Friday they had arrested 13 people suspected of plotting “terrorist” attacks in the capital Kigali and paraded them before the media. The suspects were arrested with bomb-making materials including explosives, wires, nails and phones, Rwandan National Police said in a statement. “Investigations have revealed that the terror cell worked with Allied Democratic Forces (ADF),” it said,… Read More

Mali Defence Minister Colonel Sadio Camara saluted a burgeoning partnership with Russia after taking delivery of four Russian military helicopters. Camara enthusiastically welcomed “the reliability and serious nature of this partnership — which has always given us satisfaction”. The development of the hardware which Camara said was from the Russian federation is likely to raise eyebrows and concern in Europe.… Read More

Nigeria was on Friday celebrated its 61st Independence day in Abuja, despite growing security challenges and a badly depreciated currency. In a televised address President Muhammadu Buhari said the last 18 months had been “some of the most difficult periods in the history of Nigeria since the civil war.” The country as seen in recent times more deadly attacks on… Read More

Somalia has opened the country’s first public oxygen plant as the Horn of Africa nation with one of the world’s weakest health systems combats COVID-19. The oxygen plant was opened on Thursday at a hospital in the capital, Mogadishu. It is expected to produce 1,000 cylinders of oxygen a week. The scarcity of medical oxygen has hurt response efforts across… Read More

For the last 10 months Africa and the Africans have been the subject of an unprecedented initiative in France. “Saison Africa2020” provided a platform for Africans to talk about their views on the state of the world. The season involved projects and partners both in Africa and in France. “We did more than 1,500 projects with about 911 partner structures… Read More

Morocco’s capital, Rabat, hosted consultations between Libya’s two rival bodies on a dispute involving electoral law. The meeting takes places less than three months before presidential and legislative elections announced for December 24th. The US envoy to Libya urged the two sides to reach agreement. “In order for the elections to take place on December 24th, as planned, the electoral… Read More

A Rwandan court on Thursday sentenced a yachtswoman critical of President Paul Kagame’s rule to 15 years in prison for “inciting violence. Yvonne Idamange, 42 and mother of four, was not present in court in Kigali when the verdict was read, finding her guilty on six counts, including inciting violence and insurrection, denigration of genocide memorials, spreading rumors and assault.… Read More

Kenya’s Interior Ministry ordered the suspension on Wednesday of a visa-free transit agreement with Pakistan. The move was prompted after social media sites showed videos with crowds of Pakistani nationals crowding residential areas across the capital, Nairobi. According to the authorities there has been an influx of Asian foreigners who at first were thought to be Afghan refugees. Interior Principal… Read More

Last updated: 13 hours ago North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his willingness to restore stalled communication lines with South Korea in coming days while shrugging off US offers for dialogue as “cunning ways” to conceal its hostility against the North, state media reported Thursday. Kim’s statement is an apparent effort to drive a wedge between Seoul and Washington… Read More