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An independent probe into the running of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has revealed elements of misappropriation of the body’s finances. The report by auditing firm Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC), was highly critical of how the organisation’s finances had been managed, Reuters reported on Sunday. The report cites some 40 payments totaling $10m. It says 14 of those payments… Read More

Men armed with rifles and machetes attacked a police station in Benin near the border with troubled Burkina Faso, raising fears that extremist violence could be encroaching even further south, officials said. One policeman was killed and another wounded in the attack in the village of Mekrou-Djimdjim at dawn on Sunday and the gunmen then set fire to the building,… Read More

Some analysts have expressed worry over the level of preparedness of African countries to combat the prevailing coronavirus. The outbreak of the new coronavirus, which has now claimed more than 900 lives, claimed its first non-Chinese victim, a black American some reports said. Dr Michel Yao, WHO Africa’s Emergency Operations Manager, in a video posted late last week said the… Read More

Activists of the left-wing Workers’ Party in Algeria are demanding the release of Louisa Hanoune. They demonstrated in the town of Blida, about 45 kilometres south-west of the capital, where Hanoune and Said Bouteflika, the jailed brother of the former president, are due to appear before a military court. “Through this stand, in addition to the demand for the immediate… Read More

Liberia’s government is struggling to keep the fuel flowing at petrol pumps, as sloppy bookkeeping and poor port infrastructure have caused long queues at petrol pumps for nearly two weeks. Incorrect fuel-reserve figures in the impoverished West African country partly led to the shortage, which has dragged on since late January, an industry official said. But an undredged port in… Read More

African leaders on Sunday condemned US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan as illegitimate, taking advantage of an African Union summit to voice solidarity with “the Palestinian cause”. AU Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat told assembled heads of state that the plan unveiled in late January represented the “umpteenth violation of multiple United Nations and African Union resolutions”. He said… Read More

African heads of state gather Sunday at the headquarters of the African Union for a summit meeting due to focus on how the body can play a more prominent role in resolving conflicts proliferating across the continent.The two-day summit has taken as its theme “Silencing the Guns”, yet AU officials are well aware of their failure to achieve the goal… Read More

Cameroon voted Sunday in polls overshadowed by a partial opposition boycott and separatist violence that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.Elections for the central African country’s legislature and local councils are taking place for the first time in seven years, after two postponements.They are unlikely to ruffle the enduring rule of President Paul Biya, one of the world’s oldest… Read More

At a Chinese-run hospital in Zambia, some employees watched as people who recently returned from China showed up with coughs but were not placed in isolation. A doctor tending to those patients has stopped coming to work, and health workers have been ordered not to speak publicly about the new virus that has killed hundreds around the world. The virus… Read More

The European Union has expressed its readiness to contribute to an “inclusive” dialogue in Guinea, following the announcement of a constitutional referendum, which the opposition denounces as a manoeuvre by President Alpha Condé to seek a third term in office at the end of 2020. “Unity and peace in Guinea must prevail over partisan interests,” the EU said in a… Read More