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Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has been re-elected for a second term as President of Burkina Faso winning a majority in the first round of voting. The chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Newton Ahmed Barry announced Thursday, he was recelected with 57.87% of the vote. Eddie Komboïgo, candidate of the party of former President Blaise Compaoré, comes second with 15.48%… Read More

The Moroccan judiciary confirmed the life imprisonment sentences handed to Sahrawi activists found guilty of killing eleven members of Morocco’s armed forces in 2010 in Western Sahara, a lawyer said Thursday. “The Court of Cassation rejected Wednesday all appeals of the defense. This is the final decision” for the 23 Sahrawis, convicted for the deadly clashes in 2010 in the… Read More

Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title, has died at 60. Maradona died two weeks after being released from a Buenos Aires hospital following brain surgery. The office of Argentina’s president has decreed three days of national mourning to honor their hero Speaking before Maradona’s death, director Asif Kapadia, Maradona’s biographer… Read More

South Africa on Wednesday began a period of mourning for lives lost from gender-based violence and COVID-19. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, during his address to the nation on November 11, said national flags were to be flown at half mast at various national key sites and government buildings for five days until November 29. The period of mourning has… Read More

Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title, has died. He was 60. The office of Argentina’s president will decree three days of national mourning because of Maradona’s death on Wednesday, and the Argentine soccer association expressed its sorrow on Twitter. Maradona died two… Read More

A shocking but true unfolding of events. A man resurrected at a local hospital in Kenya after he was mistakenly taken to the mortuary section by the health facility. The 32-year old Peter Kiplangat Kigen was taken to Kapkatet Hospital in Kericho County on Tuesday morning after he fainted at home. The patient’s uncle Denis Langat said that the nephew… Read More

A Young Girl with a Loud Voice November 25 is the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and was also the kickoff for the international 16 Days Of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign this year. In the spirit of this forward-moving energy, Edrine K premiered a song yesterday titled ‘Decision’ appealing to girls to stay… Read More

An ultimatum given to Tigray rebels to lay down arms expired on Wednesday, with the Ethiopian armed forces threatening an all out offensive on Mekelle, the region’s capital. There was no immediate word from Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the region’s governing party after the expiry of the deadline at 16:30 GMT on Wednesday. But the group has rejected an… Read More

Scores of freshly-dug graves fill the church compound in Mai-Kadra. Shovels abandoned by weary hands are strewn on the dirt among empty cans of lemon air freshener that fail to mask the stench of death. Elsewhere in this town in western Tigray, dozens of corpses still awaiting a grave lie abandoned in a roadside ditch, their exposed flesh rotting in… Read More

A Force to Be Reckoned With Caroline Esinam Adzogble is a twenty-eight-year-old woman from Ghana who can now boast about being the youngest woman — in not only Ghana but in all of Africa to an accredited international college, Potters International College. The inspirational entrepreneur began establishing the educational institutional — which is based in Accra, Ghana on African soil,… Read More