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Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko continues to go head to head with the authorities. On Tuesday Sonko once again put pressure on Senegal’s president Macky Sall. During a press conference in Dakar, the leader of the PASTEF opposition party announced his intention to bring the West African country’s religious figures in the debate. “We asked the religious authorities to help… Read More

An Ethiopian official said on Tuesday that his government opposes calls by Sudan for outside mediators including the United States in the ongoing dispute over its construction of a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile River. Ethiopia is generally opposed to mediation by outside parties even though the African Union is welcome to help, Dina Mufti, spokesman for Ethiopia’s Ministry… Read More

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday issued a decree setting June 12 for early legislative elections, after dissolving parliament last month. Thousands demonstrated in Algiers on Friday, rejecting the early legislative elections announced the day before, as weekly rallies by the resurgent Hirak pro-democracy movement gain momentum. “To safeguard itself, the system says: legislative (elections),” one poster read Friday. Protesters defied… Read More

A transitional government in Libya has taken power officially beginning a tenure designed to end with democratic elections late this year. In the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, Fayez Sarraj, head of the outgoing United Nations-supported administration in western Libya, transferred power to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, and Mohammad Younes Menfi, who chairs a three-member Presidential Council. The ceremony in… Read More

Ibahi Kwebali is a skilled worker and father, while Ngayeli Anny is a shopkeeper and mother of six children. Both have something in common: they are Congolese and are suffering from the economic crisis linked to the drop in oil price, and more recently the covid 19 pandemic. Ibahi worked in a construction company, but the decline in business forced… Read More

Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters return as the crime fighting duo Bishop and Pike in the hit series, “Bulletproof.” This time the action takes place abroad as the London-based police officers get caught up in a kidnapping attempt while they’re holidaying in South Africa. Clarke, who is the show’s creator and who also co-writes the series with Walters, “had a… Read More

As several European countries suspend their rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, many African countries are continuing with it. Many nations have suspended the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as there are concerns that it may cause blood clots. On Tuesday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) said it is reviewing its guidance of the vaccine. Speaking with Bloomberg TV, Africa… Read More

Oussama Mellouli is currently training to qualify for a sixth consecutive Olympic Games. If he successfully clinches a spot in the 10km open water event, he would become just the fourth swimmer in history to compete in six Olympics (behind Therese Alshammar, Lars Frolander and Derya Buyukuncu). The Tunisian participated in the Open Water Marathon in Doha on 13th March… Read More

After Serginho Dest at Barcelona and Weston McKennie at Juventus, the United States can now count on another great hope in football- the Valencia winger Yunus Musah, revelation of the season in Spain. Born 18 years ago in New York to a Ghanaian mother, raised in Italy and trained in England at Arsenal, on Monday, Musah chose Team USA rather… Read More

The bright colours on display in this workshop are an indication of the creative minds at work. And the concept is environmentally friendly too. All of these items, from garden furniture to shoes, are made from old tyres. At a time when ownership of vehicles is rising in Rwanda, the Kamana Workshop in Kigali has found a practical way of… Read More