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International envoys mediating in the violence following Guinea’s disputed election have urged the government to lift a blockade of the home of opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo. Representatives from the United Nations, African Union and the 15-nation West African bloc ECOWAS said in a statement on Tuesday that “Guinean authorities (must) lift the barricade in the spirit of inclusive dialogue”.… Read More

A lot can be told from a person’s hands and even more from a handshake. A new art installation titled “Beyond Walls” is being displayed around the globe and is open to interpretation. The sustainable project is the work of the French-Swiss artist Guillaume Legros, who goes by the allias Saype. “This idea was born the idea of creating, symbolically,… Read More

The Kenyan parliament is debating a reform of the constitution. Two years after the historic handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Amollo Odinga, the two politicians have both spoken in favour of a report that could put an end to electoral violence. Members of parliament will have to vote on an amendment to the 2010 Constitution, which… Read More

Armed men on motorbikes have kidnapped an American citizen from his home in southern Niger, according to security sources. The incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday, in the rural village of Massalata in the department of Birni Nkonni, which sits on the Nigerian border. The American man –named by his father– as Philip Walton had been living there… Read More

An unprecedented event that neither side could have planned for has come to dominate this year’s US election like no other issue- COVID. At the White House, sceptical of scientists’ warnings Donald Trump’s first reflex was one of denial. “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat,… Read More

A major opposition party in Tanzania is accusing police of shooting dead at least seven citizens amid unrest over alleged fraud on the eve of the country’s presidential election. The ACT Wazalendo party on Tuesday also said police in the semi-autonomous island region arrested its Zanzibar presidential candidate, Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad. A police official in Zanzibar city, Mohammed Hassan… Read More

South African police on Monday arrested five suspects over the 2014 murder of national football captain Senzo Meyiwa, a major breakthrough in a case that stunned the crime-ridden nation. The 27-year-old goalkeeper and national squad captain was gunned down at the home of his pop-star girlfriend Kelly Khumalo, southeast of Johannesburg during the evening of October 26, 2014. Until now… Read More

Libya is set to restart the last of its major oil fields following a ceasefire in its civil war. The state energy firm lifted force majeure on exports from El Feel on Monday. The OPEC member has mostly been offline since January. The move will help the attempt by the Tripoli-based National Oil Corporation to boost Libyan production to 1… Read More

France and Mali had a difference of opinion on Monday over whether to talk to jihadists to help end the Sahel state’s eight-year-old insurgency, with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian ruling the option out. During a news conference in the capital Bamako, Le Drian distinguished between engaging with armed groups which had signed peace accords, and “terror groups”. “In… Read More

Looting is becoming a common sight in Nigeria as the country suffers the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, a warehouse containing food intended for poor households affected by COVID-19 was emptied in Abuja, an AFP journalist reported. Residents of the federal capital looted a warehouse of Cacovid, a private fund to fight against Covid-19 that finances a… Read More