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The army was called in on Monday to contain the violence in South Africa, on the fourth day of violence initially triggered by the imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma and which has already left at least ten people dead. Incidents broke out on Friday in Zulu country, where Mr Zuma is originally from and where he was imprisoned after… Read More

Egypt’s highest appeals court on Sunday upheld the life sentences of 10 leaders of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, including the group’s head, the state-owned MENA news agency reported. In 2019, a Cairo criminal court had convicted all 10, including the group’s leader, or supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, of charges related to killing policemen and organizing mass jail breaks during Egypt’s… Read More

Last updated: 10 hours ago Dozens of people have been arrested after violence and looting erupted in South Africa. Unrest centred on KwaZulu-Natal, where ex-president Jacob Zuma is in jail, and in the economic capital Johannesburg.  In a statement, police said they had arrested 37 people in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal and 25 in Johannesburg over the previous two… Read More

Last updated: 4 hours ago South African police said on Monday shops and businesses have been looted and vandalised during rioting that broke out following the imprisonment of South Africa’s former President, Jacob Zuma. Six people have been killed and 219 arrested so far. At Jabulani Mall in Soweto, a township of the city of Johannesburg, hundreds of people were… Read More

Thousands of women from Divo, in rural Ivory Coast, have turned to organic farming and grouped together to gain financial independence. Now they go to the fields with machetes and dabas (a traditional African hoe) to farm their produce, which they say helps preserve their health and traditions. “We’ve thrown out the chemicals. We don’t pump chemicals on crops anymore.… Read More

Last updated: 40 minutes ago Prisoners climbed onto a prison roof in Sydney as smoke billowed from a burning section of the building on Monday. Aerial footage showed the prisoners standing on the roof of Parklea Correctional Centre, some using ropes to climb through the barbed wires. About 14 prisoners were involved in the disturbance, local media reported. Police managed… Read More

The European Union formally established a military mission for Mozambique on Monday to help train its armed forces battling IS-linked jihadists in the northern Cabo Delgado Province. A deadly insurgency by militants linked to the Islamic State group has ravaged the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province since late 2017, claiming some 3,000 lives and displacing 800,000 people. Former colonial power Portugal… Read More

Trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) finally kicked off on January 1, 2021, to a lot of excitement, after being delayed for six months due to the pandemic. The AfCFTA unites an estimated $3 trillion market and could help to realize more than $84 billion in untapped intra-African exports, according to a report by the African Export-Import… Read More

Last updated: 15 minutes ago Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday attempting to reach Havana’s seaside Malecón Avenue to protest against the shortages and high prices of food in the midst of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus and what they consider the lack of response from the authorities. These are the most numerous protests in… Read More

Last updated: 12 hours ago Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance since surgery last week, greeting well-wishers as he stood on a hospital balcony. Francis, 84, has been steadily on the mend, according to the Vatican, following his July 4 scheduled surgery to remove a portion of his large intestine. On Sunday, his voice sounded a bit… Read More