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A court in the French capital Paris on Thursday handed down life sentences to the three defendants in the trial of the bombing of a French camp in Ivory Coast in 2004. The two Ivorians and one Belarusian, were tried in absentia for perpetrating the bombing that killed 9 French soldiers in the second largest city of Bouake. President of… Read More

The Burkinabé government decided Wednesday that the nation’s flagship cycling competition Tour du Faso will take place from October 29th to November 7. A major comeback for the event as after Angolan Antonio Dario’s victory in 2019, the race took a one-year hiatus — due to the onset of the unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic preventing it from holding in 2020.… Read More

In the Kapiti Nature Reserve in southern Kenya, this dromedary is furiously undergoing a PCR test to detect a cousin of COVID-19, Mers, which could one day cause the next global pandemic. Two metres high and weighing 300 kilos, the beast rumbles and struggles, restrained at the neck, muzzle and tail by three camel drivers, while the veterinarian in the… Read More

Several thousand Central Africans, mostly from President Faustin Archange Touadéra’s United Hearts Movement (MCU), took to the streets of Bangui on Thursday. The march began at the sports complex in Bangui to the headquarters of the UNMISCA. The people decried the discourse during an interview with RFI last Friday of Mankeur Ndiaye the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the… Read More

Mali will hold presidential and parliamentary elections in February next year, the country’s interim government announced on Thursday. Lieutenant Colonel Abdoulaye Maiga, the minister of territorial administration, told journalists in Bamako that the first round of voting will take place on February 27 with a second round of vote in March. The announcement of the dates according to the government… Read More

Parents and relatives gather for prayers at the Chibok school where hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram jihadists seven years ago. Several more mass kidnappings of schoolchildren have occurred in northern Nigeria since Chibok, resulting in hundreds of schools being shut in a region where the literacy rate and school enrolment are already very low. On April 14,… Read More

The Central African Republic on Tuesday took delivery of the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines for the UN Mission in the country. The AstraZeneca jabs were received at the Bangui airport by UN and government officials. SOUNDBITE (French) Denise Brown, MINUSCA Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Central African Republic: “The arrival of these vaccines which are intended… Read More

Coinciding with the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Egypt fired on Tuesday the centuries-old Midfa Al-Iftar or Ramadan Cannon at Cairo’s historic Salah El-Din citadel after 30 years of silence. The cannon, last fired from the citadel in 1992, underwent a restoration program as part of the country’s plan to develop archaeological sites. The cannon, will be… Read More

Cape Verde Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva, who is running for re-election in this week’s legislative elections, says he is “confident” he will win “with an absolute majority”, arguing that government stability is important for the country, and also “good for our oil, our diamonds. “We are confident in the sense that we can achieve victory with an absolute… Read More

Slavia Prague defender Ondrej Kudela has been suspended from ten matches for racist behaviour towards Glasgow Rangers midfielder Glen Kamara. Dutch football star Clarence Seedorf — who is vocal about combatting racism and hate speech within the football industry, wants players who cover their lips to hide their words on the field sanctioned with yellow cards. “For me, it should… Read More