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New governors are being chosen for 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states as the opposition continues to reject the victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu from the West African nation’s ruling party. On Friday, armed security forces were seen patrolling the streets across the states where elections were to be held. “Ahead of the elections, the security situation across the country appears… Read More

Rwandan authorities greeted the arrival on Saturday of British Home Secretary Suella Braverman on a two-day trip to the country in a bid to accelerate the implementation of a controversial deal to send migrants arriving by boat in the UK to the East African country. The deportation agreement announced last year allows UK authorities to send to Rwanda asylum seekers… Read More

President Saied issued two decrees, the first terminating Charfeddine’s duties and a second appointing Kamel Feki as Interior Minister, the presidency said in a statement on Friday night. Mr. Feki is a law graduate and a former executive of the Ministry of Finance. He has held the post of prefect of Tunis since late 2021. His nomination comes few hours… Read More

Hundreds of people gathered outside State House in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, on Friday for the funeral of footballer Christian Atsu who died last month in the earthquake in Turkey. Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, was also present. Atsu’s widow, Marie-Claire Rupio, was overcome with emotion as she paid tribute to her husband. The 31-year-old spent most of his career playing… Read More

Gabon’s transport minister, Brice Paillat, resigned Thursday (Mar. 16), the presidency announced, a week after a ferry disaster claimed the lives of at least 21 people, with another 16 still missing. Relatives of the victims, opposition politicians and campaigning groups, had made repeated calls for the minister to depart. The government had already suspended four senior figures inside the merchant marine and… Read More

Senegal on Thursday repatriated 76 compatriots from Tunisia and neighboring Libya, the government announced on Friday. It is the latest sub-Saharan country to repatriate nationals after Tunisian President Kais Saied said on February 21 that the presence of Tunisian nationals in the country was a threat to the country’s security.  He said the presence of “hordes” of illegal immigrants from… Read More

Nearly a month after the presidential elections, Lagos will head to the polls on Saturday to either retain its incumbent governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, or elect a new one. The governor elect will have to tackle numerous issues such as security, traffic and corruption. “For Lagos, I think majorly what we need to work on is security and the traffic. There… Read More

As the search for dead bodies in Blantyre, Malawi continues, local authorities have brought on search dogs to support a team of soldiers and local people. “The search for dead bodies is faster today than yesterday because of the sniffer dogs that have come. We are able to see what is happening because of the dogs,” explains Kondwani Chilimba, relative to… Read More

Omar Zlitni holds a decades-old, black-and-white photo of himself as a boxer in his prime, posing in shorts and a training vest before Libya’s then-dictator, Moamer Kadhafi, banned his beloved sport. Boxing was “in his blood”, said the 63-year-old Tripoli resident who proudly keeps the image as his phone’s wallpaper. In 1979, he was just 19 when boxing, along with… Read More

Moroccan authorities have charged eight suspected collaborators of French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier in a sexual abuse and trafficking case, lawyers for the complainants said Thursday. Bouthier, 76 and one of France’s richest men, is being held in Paris on suspicion of child rape and trafficking. The case in Morocco opened in June 2022 when four former employees of a… Read More