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About 350 migrants tried unsuccessfully early Saturday morning to cross the fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Melilla, a Spanish government spokesman said. The Spanish border guards were alerted around 5:30 am by their Moroccan counterparts that “a group of 350 sub-Saharan Africans” was trying to climb the fence near the border post of Barrio Chino. The Guardia… Read More

The former Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo Eteni Longondo was placed Friday under provisional arrest for alleged misappropriation of funds allocated to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, prison and government sources said. “The former Minister of Public Health, Dr. Eteni Longondo, was questioned at length by the prosecutor at the Court of Cassation and placed… Read More

The professionals made the call at 4th edition of Kaduna International Film Festival held at Kaduna city, Nigeria which witnessed the presence of some professionals in the creative industry from diverse parts of the world. The Founder of Kaduna International film festival, Israel Audu says the aim is to grow the creative sector in Northern Nigeria and support the young… Read More

Last updated: 12 hours ago The U.S. military’s Ramstein air base in Germany has become a makeshift camp for thousands of Afghan evacuees who have managed to leave their country after a harrowing journey. At the airbase, evacuees undergo medical examinations and are put up in tents while their papers are processed. If all goes well, they are then placed… Read More

Burkina Faso on Friday said that it would overhaul its security forces to cope with a six-year militant insurgency that has claimed more than 1,400 lives and forced 1.3 million people from their homes. The government will “review the structural and operational organisation of the national defence and security forces,” junior defence minister General Aime Barthelemy Simpore announced at a… Read More

Campaigning began in Morocco Thursday for September 8 elections that will seal the fate of the Moroccan Islamist party which heads the current government coalition. Nearly 18 million citizens, 46 percent of them women, will be eligible to vote to choose 395 deputies of the House of Representatives and more than 31,000 municipal and regional officials. Because of the coronavirus… Read More

German laboratory BioNTech has announced that it is aiming to set up “next year” production sites for messenger RNA vaccines in Africa, notably in Senegal and Rwanda. The announcement was made on Friday at the Compact with Africa summit in Berlin. “I’m confident that with today’s meeting we can reach the goal, even if it’s step by step, starting with… Read More

Nearly 100 Nigerian schoolchildren kidnapped from an Islamic seminary three months ago were reunited with their parents on Friday after their gunmen captors freed them from forest hideouts. The May 30 Tegina seminary abduction in northwest Niger State was one of the longest-running mass kidnappings at a Nigerian school since December when criminal gangs began to target students and pupils.… Read More

DR Congo’s famed Virunga National Park announced Friday the birth of a mountain gorilla in this tourist region threatened by armed groups. The birth of a new baby male occurred on the morning of August 22,” the park’s communication officer Olivier Mukisya told AFP. The discovery was made by “a team of eco-guards” during a routine monitoring visit to the… Read More

In Senegal concrete is cheap and omnipresent, yet some builders are reverting to the use of earth bricks and revisiting traditional building methods in order to provide better insulation and heat-protection to buildings. This approach, used by a minority and requiring a precise know-how, stands out against the development of the Senegalese capital which is undergoing rapid and sometimes anarchic… Read More