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Liberia hosted French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drihan for two days. The first visit of a French minister to Monrovia in 40 years enabled President George Weah to discuss the strengthening of bilateral relations. The two men inaugurated the new French alliance in Monrovia and discussed the possibility of cooperation in matters of security within the framework of a military… Read More

A sign on the newsroom wall at the Nigerian broadcaster News Central spells out the channel’s motto: No to mediocrity and disinformation. For News Central’s dozens of journalists, most of them young reporters under 40, that part of the job just got more difficult after the government suspended Twitter. Inside the channel in Lagos financial district, the newsroom is humming… Read More

Polls opened in Algeria on Saturday for a tense election. It’s the first legislative polls since former long time President Bouteflika was forced from office in 2019. His replacement President Tebboune says the vote is to tackle corruption and build a “new Algeria”. Some 24 million Algerians are called upon to elect the 407 deputies of the National People’s Assembly… Read More

Rwanda’s national flag carrier has indefinitely suspended flights to and from Uganda, as the latter grapples with a spike in coronavirus infections. “Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases in Uganda, RwandAir announces the suspension of its flights to Entebbe effective June 10, 2021, until further notice,” RwandAir said in a statement late on Thursday. The airline advised… Read More

Baye Ag Bakabo, an executive of the Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) group — believed to be behind the kidnapping and subsequent deaths of two French journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlondeaths on November 2, 2013, in Kidal was killed on Saturday by France’s military operation. “On 5 June, Barkhane soldiers detected the preparation of a terrorist attack in… Read More

Waiting at Tunisia’s port of El Ketef in Ben Guerdane to be transferred to a detention centre, the 54 undocumented migrants of different African nationalities aged between 15 and 40 years old — who were rescued Friday while attempting to cross into Europe from Libya on Thursday night, from a sinking boat off the coast of the town near Tunisian… Read More

In Mali Friday a new government has been formed. It sees the military — which staged two coup d’états in nine months, in charge of the West African nation’s key ministries. At its head — albeit facing criticism of his position’s legitimacy, transitional president Colonel Assimi Goïta, who was sworn in on Monday. Ministerial positions of defence, security, interior and… Read More

Kenya on Thursaday lifted a ban on direct flights from Somalia ending a month feud after the suspension of air travel between the two countries. Kenya through its Foreign Minister Said it has “taken due consideration of intercessions made and has decided to reopen Kenya’s airspace to all flights originating from Somalia and emanating from Kenya to Somalia.” Kenya-Somalia diplomatic… Read More

Last updated: 54 minutes ago The Spanish squad is vaccinated against Covid-19 on the day Euro 2020 kicks off, and three days before the team’s opening game. The vaccinations were carried out by the Spanish army, who arrived at the national team’s training base in Las Rozas, in the north-west of Madrid, after the government finally gave its approval. More… Read More

Ghana is aiming to plant over 5 million trees on Friday in an effort to preserve and protect the country’s forest cover and the environment at large. President Nana Akufo was expected to lead the occasion on Friday to mark Green Ghana Day. Thousands of bags containing millions of different types of seedlings were distributed in Ghana’s 16 regions. The… Read More