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Mali’s interim government said Friday that it would pursue dialogue with jihadists and stage elections, amid fears that it is dawdling on previous promises. Presenting a plan for government in the capital Bamako, six months after a military coup in the Sahel state, Interim Prime Minister Moctar Ouane said he would make “every effort” to organise free and fair elections… Read More

Hundreds of staff members of the national airline Tunisair on Friday protested in Tunisia against the freezing of the company’s financial assets by a Turkish firm. Turkey’s TAV froze the accounts because the company owes it millions of US dollars. At the call of a Tunisair union, and supported by the powerful UGTT union, employees of the public company protested… Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s anti-corruption drive is facing stiff resistance from political foes within his own party, including his predecessor, who is openly defying a ruling from the country’s highest court to testify at an inquiry into state graft. Ramaphosa is confronted by pushback on two fronts as former president Jacob Zuma refuses to appear at the long-running judicial… Read More

The United States says it has decided to “de-link” its suspension of millions of dollars of aid to Ethiopia from that country’s dispute with Egypt over a massive hydroelectric dam project. But the State Department early Friday said that does not mean all the roughly $272 million in security and development assistance will immediately start to flow, and it depends… Read More

Tanzania’s COVID-denying president is calling on citizens for three days of prayer to defeat unnamed “respiratory diseases” amid warnings that the country is seeing a deadly resurgence in infections. “Maybe we have wronged God somewhere,” populist President John Magufuli told mourners at a funeral for his chief secretary, John Kijazi, on Friday. “Let us all repent.” Magufuli has repeatedly claimed… Read More

Carine Kanimba, the daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, hero of the movie, ‘’Hotel Rwanda’’ on Friday called on Belgian authorities to intervene to free and repatriate her father of Belgian nationality. She denounces unfair trial. “Frankly, there are days when I cry a lot, I can’t sleep, I don’t eat at all, just knowing that my father is sitting in a… Read More

At least two people died during protests in Libreville, Gabon against the government’s new anti-Covid-19 measures. Wielding pots, pans, and plastic bottles since Wednesday, Gabonese have been coming out in their numbers to denounce what they call ‘’suicidal” measures adopted by the government to battle against the coronavirus. But during the night of Thursday to Friday, the protest degenerated into… Read More

Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi was ousted and killed in the 2011 uprising, but several of his family members survived. A decade on, what has happened to them? Three of Kadhafi’s seven sons died in the uprising, including Mutassim, who was killed by rebels in the dictator’s hometown of Sirte on October 20, 2011, the same day as his father. Another… Read More

A dozen prisoners of “Hirak” were released Friday after a pardon granted by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on the eve of the second anniversary of the uprising of this anti-regime movement, according to human rights defenders. The National Committee for the Liberation of Prisoners (CNLD) reported on Facebook that more were expected to be released later on Friday. According to Zaki… Read More

Africa has surpassed 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 as the continent praised for its early response to the pandemic now struggles with a dangerous resurgence and medical oxygen often runs desperately short. “We are more vulnerable than we thought,” the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, John Nkengasong, told The Associated Press in an interview reflecting… Read More