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More than 44,000 people, 45% of them children, are currently declared missing across Africa, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement marking the International Day of the Disappeared. About 82% of those missing are from just seven countries with armed conflicts, the ICRC said. Nigeria accounts for more than half of the total number of… Read More

Last updated: 6 minutes ago A group of pro-democracy activists in Poland entered the grounds of the country’s constitutional court in an act of civil disobedience Monday, on the eve of an expected court ruling critical to the country’s future relationship with the rest of the European Union. Some stood outside with a huge banner that read “Civic Shutdown of… Read More

France will send 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa over the next three months, the French presidency said in a statement on Monday. The vaccines will be allocated and distributed through the African Union’s Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) and Covax. AVAT is a means of enabling group purchases of vaccines by AU members to help them meet at… Read More

Togo have set an ambitious, if not difficult target for their new coach. Paulo Duarte was announced as Claude Le Roy’s successor in May. Le Roy resigned after failing to take the Togolese Sparrowhawks to the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroon. But the Portuguese manager’s first challenge will be to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.… Read More

Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter pulled out all the stops to celebrate the 18th anniversary of his famous New York club and lounge, The 40/40 Club, Saturday (28 AUGUST 2021). “It’s big for us, very exciting. It’s very important because typically in these things, there’s no sort of diversity, there’s no one that represents the city,” explained the rap icon. “So all… Read More

The Senegalese renowned mediator Alioune Badara Cissé who helped broker a peace deal during the recent violent protest died in Dakar on Saturday the 28. As Mediator of the Republic, he called on President Macky Sall to speak out, to listen to Senegalese youth and warned against an escalation of violence when thousands of youths rioted in protest to the… Read More

South Sudan security forces have arrested seven people, including a top religious figure, a civil society organisation said Saturday, as rights groups warn of a widening crackdown on critics in the East African nation. The arrests, which police denied, come ahead of planned nationwide protests organised by the People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA), which has called for the country’s… Read More

Dozens of students at an Islamic seminary in western Nigeria who were abducted nearly three months ago and six of whom died in captivity have been freed, the school’s principal announced Thursday. On May 30, about 200 heavily armed men invaded the town of Tegina, in Niger State (western Nigeria), and kidnapped 136 students from the private Muslim school Salihu… Read More

Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, who was from 2017 to 2019 the Prime Minister of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, overthrown a year ago by a coup d’état, was jailed on Thursday in a case of alleged fraud, announced his lawyer, Kassoum Tapo. Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, 67, is a political heavyweight in Mali and has also served as foreign minister, defense minister and… Read More

Images of bedraggled jihadists and families surrendering to the military have sparked heated debate over the Nigerian army’s claims of success in its long war and the future of fighters who lay down their guns. Scores of Boko Haram members have been shown in army images this month surrendering to soldiers in northeast Borno state, some given hand-written signs to… Read More