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A South African convicted murderer who faked his death to escape from prison has been arrested in Tanzania following a two-week manhunt, police have announced. South African officials are to extradite Thabo Bester, 35, dubbed the “Facebook Rapist” as he used the social media platform to lure at least two women he was convicted of raping. He was also found… Read More

The German ambassador to Chad, declared persona non grata for “discourteous behaviour”, left the country on Saturday evening, Chadian Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Annadif told AFP on Sunday. On Friday, the government of Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno had asked the diplomat to leave the country within 48 hours, for “non-compliance with diplomatic practices”. “The German ambassador to Chad, Jan Christian… Read More

Followers of the Kimbanguist church in Goma took to the streets on Thursday, playing music and singing to celebrate Kimbangu’s day after the Congolese president declared it an official holiday in memory and recognition of the fight of Simon Kimbangu. Born at the end of the 19 century, while Congo was still a Belgium colony, the Baptist mission catechist was… Read More

Against a backdrop of food and energy crises, uncertain economic prospects and growing climate change impacts, the United Nations says an industrial transformation is needed to close the growing development gap between countries and achieve climate and sustainable development goals. In the 2023 Report on Financing Sustainable Development: Financing Sustainable Transformation, released Wednesday, the UN says urgent and massive investments… Read More

Gunmen have killed at least 50 people during two attacks on a village in north-central Nigeria, authorities said Thursday. Ruben Bako, chairman of the Otukpo local government where the massacre happened, said that gunmen killed 47 people on Wednesday in Umogidi village in Benue state. A day earlier, three other people had been slain in the same place, he said.… Read More

Demonstrations were organized Saturday night in different cities of Morocco to protest against the soaring prices of foodstuffs, at the call of a coalition of left-wing parties. In Casablanca, more than sixty people demonstrated their “fed up” against the high cost of living, at the Sraghna square in a popular district of the megalopolis, noted a journalist from AFP. “I… Read More

Israel Adesanya wanted a quick rematch after a November loss to Alex Pereira stripped him of the 185-pound championship belt he’d held since 2019. Five months later in UFC 287 in Miami early Sunday, Adesanya dropped the middleweight champion Pereira with two right hands, then raised his fists in triumph as he took back his middleweight championship belt and cemented… Read More

Ukraine, Middle East, international terrorism: Pope Francis condemned on Sunday the numerous “stumbling blocks” to peace in the world during his traditional message “Urbi et Orbi” for Easter. In front of some 100,000 faithful massed in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, the Argentine Jesuit expressed his “deep concern” because of the attacks of recent days” in the Middle East,… Read More

Some 65 kilometers north of the Ugandan capital Kampala, a lush green bamboo forest, it’s the brainchild of former journalist-turned farmer, Andrew Ndawula Kalema. Kalema switched from journalism to bamboo farming in order to contribute to the reversal of environmental damage being seen in the East African country. In 2010, Uganda had 6.93 million hectares of tree cover, extending over… Read More

Thousands of devotees from Ethiopia’s Muslim community took part in a large-scale street iftar, a fast-breaking dinner, during the holy month of Ramadan on Meskel Square in Addis Ababa, to raise funds to help internally displaced citizens. “People are displaced in our country because of man-made and natural causes. We want to help and support these people during this fast-breaking… Read More