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As Ethiopia heads to the polls this Monday as part of its National and regional parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said this would be « the nation’s first attempt at free and fair elections ». Euronews discussed the June 21st elections with Africanews journalist, Tancrède Chambraud. He says all Ethiopian citizens won’t be able to take part in the… Read More

Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency visited a refugee camp in Burkina Faso for World Refugee Day on Sunday. Her visit aims to bring attention to the issue of displacement of people around the world. Speaking at the camp she quoted “Today 1 in 95 people are forcibly displaced.” Jolie went on to state that the… Read More

CAF considers creating ‘African Super League’ despite European failure. ‘We have been following the attempts by some top European clubs to form a Euro Super League and will learn from their experience and pitfalls,’ CAF says. Patrice Motsepe, president of CAF, said that an African Super League, inspired by the European project, should “contribute to African soccer becoming competitive”. Despite… Read More

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo attended Mass in Abidjan on Sunday, one of his first public appearances since returning home after nearly a decade in exile. To the surprise of churchgoers, Gbagbo showed up at St. Paul Cathedral, where he was greeted by Cardinal Jean Pierre Kutwa. “The ceremony has been wonderful, his (Gbagbo) visit to the cathedral was… Read More

Libya’s interim authorities reopened the Mediterranean coastal highway linking the country’s long-divided eastern and western cities on Sunday, in the latest bid to reunite the land after years of civil war. It comes three days ahead of an international conference on Libya that will be hosted by Germany and the United Nations in Berlin. “I am so delighted to participate… Read More

Would you give up your life for the good of your family? What if you don’t have a choice? Somewhere in Africa, thousands of men move from their home country to another to try and find work. We are in Lesotho and here, men are employed by criminal gangs in the mining industry. They can spend days, months underground digging… Read More

Nothing but deception for South Africans who rushed KwaHlathi. After hearing a local herder had unearthed some mysterious stones in this small town of the Kwazulu-Natal province, thousands armed with pickaxes, shovels and sticks headed to the surroundings of the village in search of diamonds. But preliminary analysis of these said diamond shows the stones are in fact Quartz, far… Read More

Twice delayed, hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic, violent insecurity, and planning chaos, Ethiopia’s electoral board says it is ready for Monday’s crucial vote and assures it will be credible. “We’re actually very confident about it,” the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) spokeswoman Solyana Shimeles told AFP. It is not optimism shared by all, with serious doubts remaining over the… Read More

Pollings stations opened in Ethiopia on Monday as Prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling Prosperity Party is widely expected to cement its hold on power. The party that wins a majority of seats in the House of Peoples’ Representatives will form the next government. Close to 40 million people have registered to take part in the national and regional parliamentary elections.… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago More than 200 families from El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, gathered Saturday with relatives from across the Rio Grande along the U.S.-Mexico border. For four minutes they exchanged glances, kisses and hugs, made possible by the “Hugs Not Walls” campaign sponsored by the Border Network for Human Rights, an immigrant rights advocacy group.… Read More