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Five people have been shot and killed in Johannesburg in suspected violence between rival gangs of illegal miners, police said on Sunday. The five bodies, believed to be those of illegal miners , were found near an abandoned mine shaft near a suburban slum to the west of Johannesburg. “The preliminary investigation suggests that two rival groups of illegal miners… Read More

In the unbearable midday heat, a Libyan patrol near the border with Tunisia comes across a black African man collapsed on the reddish-brown desert sand. He is barely breathing, and officers try to revive him, gently, with a few drops of water on his lips. The man is just one among hundreds of migrants arriving daily in Libya after being… Read More

Nigerian music superstar Wizkid records another giant feat for Afrobeats after selling out the Tottenham stadium. On July 29, 2023, over 60,000 people reportedly turned out to watch the Grammy winner in his first stadium headline show in the United Kingdom. The show is one of the stops for Wizkid’s tour of his fifth album ‘More Love, Less Ego’ which… Read More

Thousands of people backing the coup in Niger marched through the streets of the capital denouncing France, the country’s former colonial power, waving Russian flags, and setting a door at the French Embassy ablaze on Sunday before the army broke up the crowd. Demonstrators in Niger are openly resentful of France, and Russia is seen by some as a powerful… Read More

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has expressed hope for a return to normality and reopening of borders with North African neighbour Algeria, which cut diplomatic ties nearly two years ago. “We pray to the Almighty for a return to normality and a reopening of the borders between our two neighbouring countries and our brotherly peoples,” Mohammed VI, 59, said late Saturday… Read More

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has expressed hope for a return to normality and reopening of borders with North African neighbour Algeria, which cut diplomatic ties nearly two years ago. “We pray to the Almighty for a return to normality and a reopening of the borders between our two neighbouring countries and our brotherly peoples,” Mohammed VI, 59, said late Saturday… Read More

Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Niger’s capital, Niamey, to demand the departure of French military troops from the country. They also want an end to other foreign interference, after last week’s coup that has brought a military junta to power. However West African leaders meeting in an extraordinary summit on Niger have threatened military action against the junta if it… Read More

Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Niger’s capital, Niamey, to demand the departure of French military troops from the country. They also want an end to other foreign interference, after last week’s coup that has brought a military junta to power. However West African leaders meeting in an extraordinary summit on Niger have threatened military action against the junta if it… Read More

Voting is underway in the Central African Republic in a referendum that would allow president Faustin-Archange Touadéra to run for a third term. Elected in 2016, President Touadéra was re-elected in 2020 after a vote interrupted by several incursions by armed rebel groups and marred by accusations of fraud. Sixty-six year old, Touadéra is accused by his opponents of wanting to… Read More

Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has backed the African peace initiative on Ukraine. Speaking at the close of the Russia-Africa Forum in St Petersburg, Putin also praised China’s efforts at finding a solution to the conflict. “But in general, the initiative (African peace initiative on Ukraine, Ed.), in my opinion, can be the basis of some processes aimed at the search… Read More