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Togo’s Annual Fashion Festival The Beninese stylist Miguel Toffohossou is getting ready to show his models. An umpteenth windfall, because he knows that it is an opportunity to promote the fruit of his work. This creator has built his career on his own and is often immersed in on-the-job training during festivals. His current objective is to make his mark… Read More

The United States is calling for an ‘’independent, impartial, credible and thorough investigations’’ into Uganda’s January 14 elections, which it says were marred by irregularities and abuses by security forces against opposition candidates. Spokesperson of the U.S Department of State, Ned Price said it will consider ‘’a range of targeted options’’ to ensure that members of Uganda’s security forces would… Read More

FIFA president Gianni Infantino, was welcomed by the president of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF), Fouzi Lekjaa, to Rabat on Wednesday. “I am here for a working visit with my friend the president of the federation, Fouzi (Lekjaa) and all his team,” said Infantino. “We are here to discuss future projects concerning Moroccan football, African football and we know… Read More

South Africa announced plans on Wednesday to allocate $688 million for vaccines and over $750 million to boost youth employment in a bid to tackle the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. “This campaign allows us to emerge from the restrictions that we have experienced to economic activity,” said Finance Minister Tito Mboweni in an annual national budget speech… Read More

Guinea is continuing its fight against the deadly Ebola disease with its mass vaccination campaign that started on Tuesday. It comes after the latest outbreak this month which killed five people in the southeastern region of Nzérékoré. They were the first cases in Guinea since the 2013-2016 epidemic that killed more than 11,300 in West Africa. The World Health Organization… Read More

Beijing has agreed to give more free doses to Zimbabwe as the country agrees to purchase a further 1.2 million coronavirus vaccines from China at ”a preferential price”, presidential spokesman, George Charamba said Wednesday. ‘’Zimbabwe is also procuring more vaccines from China at a preferential price. Zimbabwe is set to purchase another 1.2 million doses from China,” he wrote on… Read More

At the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, healthcare workers and trade unionists picket in solidarity with frontline workers before the South African Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, delivers a yearly budget speech. The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) and the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) urged their members to stay away from work to protest what they… Read More

Security forces in Ghana on Wednesday closed the office of an organization that supports the LGBTQI+ (Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual trans, queer, intersex) community in the West African country where homosexuality is prohibited, the association in charge of the entity said. “This morning, our center was invaded by National Security, to this day we no longer have access to this space… Read More

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has banned the travel of ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions outside the capital Kinshasa without prior authorization. The decision follows the deadly attack on the convoy of the Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio in Kimbumba area near the city of Goma, North Kivu, eastern DRC. On Tuesday, President Felix Tshisekedi made the decision at… Read More

Ethiopia’s foreign minister Demeke Mekonnen Hassen has told a United Nations human rights meeting that humanitarian access in the Tigray region is improving but that security remains “a work in progress.” “Full return to stability is a work in progress. But there is no doubt the situation keeps on improving, allowing better movement of humanitarian operations except for a few… Read More