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Ethiopia said Thursday that rebels from war-hit Tigray had been routed from the neighbouring region of Afar. The office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) had “suffered great losses” and were forced to retreat from Afar, two months after the rebels launched incursions into the region – the latest turn in a 10-month… Read More

Business Africa, your program dedicated entirely to the economy on our continent. This week: What economic reforms does the newly elected president, Hakainde Hichilema, plan to undertake? Hichilema has promised 10% growth per year during his five-year term as his country is in talks with the IMF for financial assistance. In 2020, Zambia was the only African country to default… Read More

Illegal logging, charcoal production and poaching in and around Virunga National Park, the famed sanctuary of mountain gorillas in eastern DR Congo, are enriching armed groups in the troubled region, local NGOs say. “The majority of armed groups active in North Kivu (province) have set up bases in and around the park,” raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars (euros)… Read More

The leader of the National Rally of Independents party (RNI) in Morocco declared the results of the legislative elections a “victory of all Moroccans” after his party won the most seats. With nearly all of the votes counted, the Interior Ministry said the RNI took 97 out of 395 seats in the lower house of parliament. The Islamist Justice and… Read More

The rioting that erupted in parts of South Africa in July over former President Jacob Zuma’s imprisonment caused damage worth $1.7 billion (25 billion rand), according to the state insurance company handling the claims. More than 300 people died and more than 200 shopping centers were looted in the KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng provinces when rioters ransacked shops. and stole… Read More

The authorities in Mali have made an office available to a president ousted in May, in a gesture to a key figure in the country’s post-coup political turmoil. A government decree seen by AFP late on Wednesday said former president Bah Ndaw would be given a chief of staff, four advisers and an aide-de-camp. Ndaw had been appointed transitional president… Read More

The African Union’s health watchdog accused world leaders Thursday of falling short in their pledge to share coronavirus vaccines with poorer nations, and their failure risked making the disease endemic. Africa is facing a Covid-19 resurgence as it lags in the global vaccination drive, with just 3.18 percent of its 1.3-billion population fully innoculated. “We cannot continue to politicise this… Read More

Abdoulaye Bah, a senior member of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea party was among dozens of prisoners released by Guinea’s junta on Tuesday. They had been jailed for opposing ousted President Alpha Conde’s third term bid and his controversial re-election last November. On Wednesday, he became the latest senior figure of the West African country’s political opposition to… Read More

The European Union is ready to do “more” to support the organization of elections scheduled in Libya in late December, in particular by supporting the reform of the security sector, assured Wednesday in Tripoli the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell. “The EU has already provided technical support to the High National Electoral Commission (in Libya) and we are ready… Read More

Last updated: 9 hours ago A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the giant pedestal where it has towered over Virginia’s capital city for more than a century. The piece, one of America’s largest monuments to the Confederacy, was lifted away just before 9 a.m.… Read More