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Pulcherie Gbalet, president of an organization known as the Alternative Ivorian citizen (ACI), with closed links to the opposition in Ivory Coast, was released Wednesday night, her lawyer told AFP. Ms. Gbalet was arrested in August 2020 and imprisoned at the Abidjan House of Arrest and Correction facility. She was “charged with inciting revolt, calling for an insurrection, disturbing public… Read More

The ‘’tahtib’’ is an ancient Egyptian martial art dating back 5,000 years ago. The ‘’stick fighting’’ has become a modern martial art here. Stakeholders see the arts as an improved sports version of a multi-millennial art. In traditional tahtib, popular in Egypt’s rural south, two men perform a dance while wielding bamboo-like rods, in a face-off somewhat resembling a fencing… Read More

Elephants roam in Kimana Sanctuary. Last year a large 180-acre farm near the Amboseli National Park, Kimana Sanctuary, and other conservation areas, was sold by local Maasai to KiliAvo Fresh, who fenced off the site and prepared it to plant avocados. Conservationists and a group of local landowners, Amboseli Land Owners Conservancies Association, took their objections to National Environment Management… Read More

The World Bank on Wednesday granted $100 million for an emergency recovery project in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by a jihadist insurgency. An agreement for the funding – part of a three-year $700-million project – was signed by the government and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) which oversees the project.… Read More

The Chadian Transitional Military Council, CMT, expressed itself for the first time on the demonstrations against the establishment of the military council led by Mahamat Idriss Déby, one of the sons of the former Chadian president killed on 19 April. The Ministry of Public Security and Immigration had earlier placed a ban on protests but various civil society and democratic… Read More

The Mozambican government says it plans to invest over a billion dollars in the country’s Northern region. Already underway, it says, is a 100 million dollar emergency programme to support health and education. The announcement follows the suspension of the largest private investment in Africa by TOTAL. The International Red Cross in reaction to the news says it is paying… Read More

In light of recent violent clashes between government troops and opposition factions on the streets of the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, Somalia senior analyst at International Crisis Group (ICG) Omar Mahmood describes the situation in the country as a “worrying development”. The rival sides exchanged gunfire on Sunday in an eruption of long-simmering tensions sparked by the delay of February… Read More

Moroccan police have arrested more than 1.5 million people for violating Covid-19 preventative measures between July last year to 22 April this year, according to the country’s Deputy Interior Minister Noureddine Boutayeb. Boutayeb revealed that the figures meant security services arrested more than 5,700 Covid-19 violators daily during a nine-month period. “Although this number seems large, it indicates a great… Read More

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday admitted that the country’s ruling party could have done more to halt state graft under his predecessor Jacob Zuma. During a much-anticipated appearance before a judicial panel probing allegations of corruption and fraud under Zuma, Ramaphosa said graft had “eroded” constitutional values and “undermined the rule of law”. “We all acknowledge that the… Read More

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu has pardoned 5,001 prisoners from different correctional facilities across the East African country. Of these prisoners, 1,516 have been released after a quarter of their sentences were reduced in lieu of a standard one-third reduction under the provisions of the Prisons Act chapter 58, according to The EastAfrican paper Other inmates numbering 3,485 have had their… Read More