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A Malian court on Wednesday sentenced to death two men found guilty of killing more than two dozen people in attacks targeting foreigners in 2015. Fawaz Ould Ahmed and his co-defendant Sadou Chaka were convicted after two days of hearings. “The court finds you guilty of the facts you are accused of and does not grant you any mitigating circumstances,”… Read More

Tanzania is counting votes after polls in its high-stakes election closed on Wednesday evening. President Joseph Magufuli, eyeing a second five-year term, voted in the country’s new capital of Dodoma. A total of 29 million voters were registered to vote in 80,115 polling stations, where they had to choose between 15 presidential candidates and 399 seats in Parliament, in addition… Read More

Millions have already voted but the campaigning is intensifying with just under one week to go before the 2020 US presidential election. As President Donald Trump continues his whistle stop tour of states – Michigan Wisconsin and Nebraska all in one day . That’s a normally Republican state but a change in demographics – more younger voters – could swing… Read More

Sudanese asylum seekers living in Israel fear being kicked out once ties are normalised between the two countries, though some hope their presence will be seen as an advantage. Technically at war with Israel for decades, Sudan on Friday became the third Arab country this year to announce it is normalising ties with the Jewish state, following the United Arab… Read More

Hundreds of protesters marched in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday to protest remarks made by French President Emmanuel Macron defending cartoons in a French satirical magazine which are seen by some as insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Protesters dragged the French flag through the streets before setting it on fire, urging Muslims around the world to unite in a boycott… Read More

Algeria’s Grand Mosque, the world’s third-biggest and Africa’s largest, will host its first public prayers on Wednesday, a year and a half after construction was completed. Known locally as the Djamaa El-Djazair, the modernist structure extends across 27.75 hectares (almost 70 acres), and is smaller only than the two mosques in Mecca and Medina, Islam’s holiest sites, in Saudi Arabia.… Read More

Ivorians will this saturday October 31 go to the polls to elect a new president. One of the four candidates contesting in the presidential election Kouadio Konan Bertin, aka “KKB”, is calling on voters to cast their ballots. His call comes after opposition parties asked their supporters to boycott the polls. They have called for a boycott accusing the electoral… Read More

Tanzanians began voting on Wednesday morning to elect their president and members of parliament. The outgoing head of state John Magufuli, nicknamed the “bulldozer”, faces main opponent Tundu Lissu, who has been able to reinvigorate the opposition, largely stifled during the last five-years. On the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, the situation had become clearly tense on Tuesday, with an opposition… Read More

Almost 2,000 protesters in Tunisia are threatening to cross into Italy illegally by the sea in protest at their local football club’s suspension from the league. Earlier this month The Tunisian football federation banned CS Chebba for a year for an incomplete and late membership application. The club’s president has for months been at odds with the federation’s chief, Wadie… Read More

Protests have flared in the United States after police shot and killed a 27-year-old Black man on a Philadelphia street after yelling at him to drop his knife. The shooting occurred on Monday afternoon as officers responded to a report of a person with a weapon, police said. The man has been identified as Walter Wallace. Police said he was… Read More