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Facebook has shut a slew of accounts belonging to Ugandan government officials accused of seeking to manipulate public debate ahead of elections Thursday, the internet giant told AFP on Monday. The East African nation is holding presidential and parliamentary elections after a tense and bloody campaign, with President Yoweri Museveni, 76, facing a stiff challenge from the popstar-turned-politician Bobi Wine,… Read More

Alive, Kicking and Still Under Investigation Former minister and one of the main opposition leaders in Côte d’Ivoire Abdallah Mabri Toikeusse finally resurfaced on Sunday following his two-month disappearing act that many speculate came about in light of the charges for “conspiracy against the authority of the state” brought against him in November. The former minister and leader of a… Read More

A Consulate on Whose Land Exactly? The United States on Sunday began the process of establishing a consulate in Western Sahara — a disputed and divided former Spanish colony. The territory is now recognised by Washington as under Morrocan sovereignty in exchange for Rabat normalising ties with Israel. This is in spite of the decades-long tensions within the region with… Read More

More than 40,000 birds have been culled in Senegal after an outbreak of bird flu. Senegal reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday. It said the outbreak occurred in the Thies region east of the capital Dakar. The 40,000 birds were slaughtered on… Read More

Top officials of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have been killed in an operation by Ethiopian forces, according to an announcement on Thursday. Ethiopia’s defence force deployment department also said nine other TPLF leaders were arrested Those killed include TPLF spokesperson Sekoture Getachew and Daniel Assefa, former Head of Tigray finance bureau. Zeray Asgedom, the former head of the… Read More

Niger’s interior minister on Saturday promised not to “abandon” the country’s troubled west at a meeting of local leaders, a week after its worst-ever jihadist massacre against civilians. Last Saturday, around 100 attackers riding motorbikes killed over 100 civilians in hours-long attacks on two villages in the jihadist-plagued region of Tillaberi, 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of the capital Niamey.… Read More

The “One Planet Summit” devoted to biodiversity, with the aim of relaunching a green diplomacy put on hold by Covid-19 begins on Monday, January 11 in Paris. About thirty personalities are expected to take part, mainly by visio due to the health crisis. They include the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the President of the World Bank David Malpass, the… Read More

A riot took place near Cameroon’s Douala International Airport on Saturday. The Police charged at a group of young people protesting the demolition of their homes and a mosque. They succeeded finally in dispersing them with tear gas. Yassu Anne, an inhabitant of the airport area has lived here for 37 years. She admits to losing everything. “We came today… Read More

The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR says it has continued to register new refugee arrivals at the Sudanese-Ethiopian border. Some 800 people crossed from Ethiopia’s Tigray region into eastern Sudan in just the first few days of the new year according to the agency. Since early November, more than 56,000 Ethiopian refugees have fled to neighbouring Sudan. Grisgeher Lahol is one.… Read More

The rebels on the offensive in the Central African Republic against the power of President Faustin Archangel Touadéra, freshly declared re-elected after a controversial election, attacked Saturday Bouar, a major city 340 km from the capital Bangui, announced the UN peacekeepers. Two French fighter jets were dispatched for a “mission of overflight” of the country by President Emmanuel Macron who… Read More