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Mohammed Bazoum, a favorite and close ally of Niger’s incumbent President Mahamadou Issoufou, takes an early lead in the second round of votes held Sunday February 21. As at the time of filing this report, results posted to the official website of the National election commission known as CENI, indicate that the presidential candidate of the ruling PNDS, the Niger… Read More

With hospitals in the Nigerian capital under increasing strain amid the coronavirus pandemic, a private medical service has been providing health care at home for some patients with the disease. PrivateMD’s team of professionals, equipped with portable medical devices and a couple of ambulances, have been cutting through Lagos traffic to treat people in their homes. One of their patients… Read More

Faced with chronic fuel shortages, the Republic of Congo is seeking to refine more oil at home. President Dennis Sassou Nguesso on sunday launched the construction of a new, bigger refinery near the port city of Pointe-Noire. The 2.5 million tons per year facilty will cost $600m. Named Atlantic Petrochemical Refinery, this unit will be built on 240 hectares and… Read More

Call it a hat-trick of joy as music superstar Kelly Rowland is basking in her current bliss. The Grammy-award winning artist gave birth to her second child, she turned 40 last week and released a new EP dubbed ‘K’ on Friday February 19. It’s a result of her musical labor of love. “I think the hardest part for me in… Read More

The interior minister of Libya’s unity government, Fathi Bashagha, survived an assassination attempt Sunday on a highway near the capital Tripoli, an official from his inner circle told AFP. Official sources indicate that his convoy “was fired on from an armored car while he was on the highway. His police escort then returned fire. Two of the assailants were arrested… Read More

As The African Union pushes for its new flagship 2063 agenda — initiatives for prosperity and peace on the continent –Investment in Agriculture will play a key part for development says the AUs Commissioner for Agriculture in comments to Euronews. Becoming autonomous will also be key for the continent Josefa Sacko says. “We have an import bill per year of… Read More

Niger will choose between its outgoing leader’s anointed successor and a former president running for the fifth time in a presidential election runoff on Sunday. The second-round vote is hoped to bring about the first peaceful handover of power between democratically elected leaders in the history of the coup-prone West African country. The right-hand man Mohamed Bazoum, a former interior… Read More

The opposition presidential candidate in Niger, Mahamane Ousmane cast his vote Sunday morning in Birni, a working-class neighborhood in his hometown of Zinder, while Mohamed Bazoum, the anointed successor to Niger’s outgoing President Mahamadou Issoufou, cast his at the Niamey City Hall. The two candidates ex president Mahamane Ousmane and Mohamed Bazoum faceoff in a run-off presidential elections that will… Read More

The president of the International Football Federation (Fifa) Gianni Infantino launched Saturday the project to organize a school championship in the Democratic Republic of Congo that will be replicated at the African level, in the presence of President Felix Tshisekedi, current chairman of the African Union (AU). “We launched today a project of a competition, a school championship here (in… Read More

Extreme violence and attacks involving thousands of fighters at a time have engulfed more than three-quarters of South Sudan, UN human Rights Council-appointed investigators said on Friday, warning that the bloodshed and exactions faced by civilians are “the worst recorded” since the country’s civil war began in December 2013. Highlighting a continuing lack of local and national State infrastructure almost… Read More