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The European football season is coming to an end and the first titles are starting to fall. Romelu Lukaku and Inter Milan won the Italian championship on Sunday after Atalanta drew with Sassuolo. The Nerazzuri had beaten Crotone 2-0 on Saturday, with Lukaku providing the opening goal for Dane Christian Eriksen The Congolese-born Belgian doubled his tally a few minutes… Read More

Nigeria will restrict access to its territory to all foreign travellers who have stayed in Brazil, India and Turkey over the past two weeks, in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus, health authorities announced Sunday. The travel restriction will take effect from May 4. Sunday’s statement — issued by Boss Mustapha, chairman of the pandemic presidential steering committee,… Read More

As they have done for hundreds of years on the Orthodox Easter weekend, priests wrapped in traditional white robes read the Bible by candlelight on Saturday evening in the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia. The ancient ritual has been a tourist draw in recent years. Tens of thousands of visitors from around Ethiopia and abroad usually come to… Read More

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo on Saturday reopened talks to hold elections as soon as possible, a move welcomed by the opposition and raising the spectre of further deadly violence. In a short speech to MPs, broadcast live on television, the president called for a negotiated solution to the ongoing political crisis, abandoning the two-year extension of his presidential… Read More

Demonstrators — mainly made up of youth, took to the streets in the cities of Sarh and Koumra in Southern Chad on Saturday morning. The activists marched in peaceful protest against the newly emerged Transitional Military Council — a regime strongly supported by France. The former coloniser has been strongly warned by the country’s opposition parties to not meddle in… Read More

Last updated: 12 hours ago Among them was a memorial for Rabbi Eliezer Mordechai Goldberg, as burials do not take place during the Jewish Sabbath. The festival was attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel and killed at least 45 people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. It was one of the country’s… Read More

Last updated: 30/04 – 20:48 Volunteers placed 400 body bags on the beach during the demonstration in memory of Brazilians who have died from the virus during the pandemic. Those participating in the act, dressed in hazmat suits as they buried empty body bags covered with Brazilian flags. A banner was also set in front of the demonstration with the… Read More

Japanese on his mother’s side and Nigerian on his father’s, Ado Onaiwu is the sensation of the early football season in Japan. On Saturday, his hat-trick gave the Yokohama Marinos a win against FC Tokyo. Three goals that bring his total scored to eight over 11 games played. Standards that recall his 2018 season when the Afro-Asian international football player… Read More

The family and friends of Synna Garandi Noullah, a 19-year-old student who died during a demonstration against the junta in Chad, gather in a cemetery in N’Djamena for the funeral. At least six people died Tuesday during banned protests against Chad’s new military junta, with its leader pledging national dialogue as generals take charge following the shock battlefield death of… Read More

The new Nigerien president Bazoum Mohamed has made school education his priority. He wants to get the Nigerien school out of its deep malaise. To do this, he outlined his vision for the coming years to the various actors of the Nigerien education system and technical and financial partners. Our Africanews special correspondent, Abdoulkarim Mahamadou, provided us with details surrounding… Read More