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An hydro-electric dam, a few roads and a hospital complex. These are some the latest projects Congo’s president Dénis Sassou NGUESSO has inaugurated a few weeks before the presidential elections. Fors some in this central African country, this is a well thought out plan to end the current term and that urges supporters to give another term to President Nguesso.… Read More

Equatorial Guinea on Friday held a funeral ceremony for those who perished in the explosions at a military camp at the country’s economic hub of Bata on March 7th. The official death toll has been pegged at 105. Although Human Rights Watch reports that ”far more” lives were lost. A total of 615 people were wounded in Sunday’s blast at… Read More

South African mining billionaire Patrice Motsepe was elected president of the African soccer confederation on Friday without the need for a vote after a deal brokered by FIFA saw his three challengers withdraw and left him as the only candidate. Motsepe was confirmed by acclamation _ a round of applause by officials _ at the Confederation of African Football’s general… Read More

Reactions are pouring in South Africa to death of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. The king wielded great influence among millions of Zulu speakers through his largely ceremonial and spiritual role despite having no official power in current-day South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the king “will be remembered as a much-loved, visionary monarch who made an important contribution to cultural… Read More

Thousands demonstrated in Algiers on Friday, rejecting early legislative elections announced the day before, as weekly rallies by the resurgent Hirak pro-democracy movement gain momentum. Protesters defied a coronavirus-related ban on gatherings to rally from different parts of the capital, converging on the central post office, the Hirak movement’s emblematic rallying point, AFP correspondents said. Demonstrators shouted slogans including “No… Read More

Senegal’s opposition has called for a fresh rally in the capital Dakar on Saturday, days after the arrest of a rival to the president sparked the West African nation’s worst unrest for years. At least five people were killed in clashes between opposition supporters and security forces, which were sparked on Wednesday by the arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko,… Read More

The body of the Ivory Coast’s late prime minister Hamed Bakayoko arrived Abidjan on Saturday from Germany. Hamed Bakayoko, popularly known as “Hambak”, died in Germany from cancer aged 56, four days after legislative elections that went ahead peacefully and handed victory to the ruling RHDP party. On Thursday, the government declared an eight-day national mourning period from 12 to… Read More

Medical staff in Tunis, Tunisia’s capital have received some of the first Covid jabs in the North African country’s vaccination campaign. The opening round of vaccinations was held in a field hospital set up in a sports complex in the El Mensah district of Tunis on Saturday. First up for a shot in the arm were health care workers, soldiers… Read More

Time seems to have stood still at Papazian’s, an Armenian Egyptian watchmaker whose almost 120-year-old Cairo shop has withstood the decades, surviving political upheavals and urban transformations. Sheltered from the hustle and bustle of the capital’s unforgiving traffic and surrounded by street vendors in Attaba Square, the unassuming shop housed under the arcades of an old Haussmannian building is a… Read More

Somalia held a state funeral Friday for former president Ali Mahdi Mohamed, who died of COVID-19 earlier this week in neighboring Kenya. The seaside capital was brought to a standstill, with all the main roads blocked by the army and police as the hearse was transported to a mosque where the late president’s family paid their last respects. Somalia has… Read More