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Libya’s new Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah was sworn in to lead the North African country’s transition to elections in December, after years of chaos and division. Dbeibah was sworn in alongside other members of the new unity government parliament in Tobruk city in eastern Libya. “I swear to God that I will perform my work duties with all honesty… Read More

Thione Seck, one of Senegal’s biggest music stars over the last four decades, died at the age of 66 in Dakar on Sunday, his lawyer said. “He died this morning of an illness at the Fann hospital,” lawyer Ousmane Seye told AFP, confirming reports in the Senegalese media. Thione Ballago Seck, from a family of “griot” singers, was one of… Read More

Kenya will not take part in the hearings due to start on Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on its border dispute with Somalia, the Kenyan government announced in a letter seen by AFP on Sunday. Somalia and Kenya have been at odds for several years over the delineation of their maritime border in the… Read More

A ceremony has been held in Abidjan as the body of prime minister Hamed Bakayoko arrives on a plane from Germany. The Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko died following cancer treatment in a German hospital. Bakayoko was appointed prime minister in July last year after his predecessor, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, died of a heart attack. Gon Coulibaly was slated to… Read More

Chad President Idriss Deby Itno kicked off his campaign for a sixth term on Saturday, calling for unity after rival protests were banned and broken up. The first rally since the start of the official election period on Thursday was held by Deby’s Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) at a packed stadium in the capital, N’Djamena. Deby, who has ruled for… Read More

Ethiopia began rolling out the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to health workers on Saturday in the country’s capital Addis Ababa. The launch of the vaccine was attended by the World Health Organization’s country representative Boureima Hama Sambo who urged “communities and community leaders to build trust” as well as “demand for the vaccine” and to “promptly” address “misinformation.” While health workers… Read More

The Central African Republic began voting in the second round of a legislative election on Sunday as it battles back against a rebel insurgency the government has called an attempted coup. It will be the first time many will be able to vote after only one in three of those registered were able to cast their ballots in the first… Read More

Football has helped Rufta Gebrenit connect on and off the field.   She came from East Africa as a refugee six years ago – but felt like she didn’t belong. “Actually it was really bad for me because I don’t know the language,” says Gebrenit. Diana Obeid had a similar experience coming to Tasmania in 2007 from South Sudan. “I… Read More

Trevor Noah took a careful approach hosting “The Daily Show” from his New York apartment during the pandemic, but he said traveling across the US to host the Grammys was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. “If you get asked to host the Grammys, I don’t think you take long to say yes,’” said the Emmy winner, who will host… Read More

Nigerian security forces stepped up efforts Saturday to rescue dozens of abducted college students, police and officials said, as the media ran videos they said showed hostages pleading for help. President Muhammadu Buhari meanwhile vowed an early end to the hostage crisis. Gunmen abducted 39 students from their hostels in northwestern Kaduna state late Thursday, the latest in a series… Read More