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With more than 41 million people aat risk during the lean season this year, Food insecurity situation is becoming alarming in West and Central Africa. This is according to the World Bank which also estimates in a new report published on 12 April, that 29 million people are currently dependent on emergency food aid. The financial institution blamed the high… Read More

“Time for a new deal with Africa” is the theme of a forum organised by the French Council of Investors in Africa (CIAN) in Paris on Tuesday. The African continent is a major supplier of energy to the European Union, and has many raw materials and rare metals that are essential to the energy transition and are highly sought after… Read More

Luciano Spalletti said Monday (Apr.17) that the return of star striker Victor Osimhen will more than make up for other key players missing in Napoli’s Champions League quarter-final showdown with AC Milan. Nigeria’s Osimhen played his first minutes since the international break in Saturday’s (Apr. 15) goalless draw with Verona — hitting the bar.  He will lead the line at… Read More

Syria’s top diplomat is on a three-day official visit to Tunisia to restore diplomatic ties broken since 2012 during the civil war that followed President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on mass protests against his rule. Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad met his Tunisian counterpart Nabil Ammar shortly after arriving on Monday evening. No details were released on those talks or… Read More

In Kenya’s western city of Kisumu, Malaria is endemic. Parents queue to have their children jabbed. They will receive the RTS,S vaccine which acts against Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite globally and the most prevalent in Africa. That vaccine, sold by GlaxoSmithKline as Mosquirix, is about 30% effective. Despite medical trials for other parasitic and mosquito-borne diseases, progress is painstaking but hope is… Read More

Washington’s top diplomat said Tuesday that a U.S. Embassy convoy came under fire in Sudan and denounced “indiscriminate military operations” as the country’s armed forces and a powerful rival unleashed heavy weapons in urban areas for a fourth day. The convoy of clearly marked embassy vehicles was attacked on Monday, and preliminary reports link the assailants to the Rapid Support… Read More

G7 foreign ministers on Tuesday urged warring forces in Sudan to “end hostilities immediately” and return to negotiations, after clashes that have killed almost 200 people. A weeks-long power struggle exploded into deadly violence Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo,… Read More

Rached Ghannouchi, one of the main opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied, has been arrested, his Ennahdha party said Monday, the latest in a string of opposition figures held. Ghannouchi, 81, whose party was the largest in parliament before Saied dissolved the chamber in July 2021, was arrested by police at his home in Tunis, the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha said in… Read More

Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal was named a UNCCD Goodwill Ambassador Monday (17 April 2023). He previously served as a UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) Land Ambassador alongside fellow musicians Inna Modja and Ricky Kej. Maal has long been an activist on climate change and refugees. Since 2003, he has been committed to various development challenges in Africa, working… Read More

After a sleepless night as fighting raged, Khartoum residents are cautiously venturing out to buy supplies amid fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitaries. Despite the risk, Farouq Hassan insisted on opening his bakery. “We are trying to work and make ends meet despite the power and water outages,” he told AFP. The few clients hurrying back home for safety. Many… Read More