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The UN envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, announced on Monday the launch of an “initiative” for the organization of presidential and legislative elections in the country this year. “I have decided to launch an initiative aimed at enabling the organization and holding of presidential and legislative elections in 2023,” the Senegalese told the UN Security Council. “In this regard, I… Read More

Nigeria’s two main opposition parties have called for the annulment of what they have described as a “sham” election, denouncing the “massive manipulation” of the results. A partial count has given a slight lead to ruling party candidate and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu. Saturday’s vote was generally peaceful, although there were some security incidents and logistical hitches. But… Read More

The head of Mali’s ruling junta, Colonel Assimi Goita, received a draft of a new constitution on Monday, amending a draft that was contested last fall, his office said, without saying when it would be put to a referendum. This Constitution is a key element of the vast reform project invoked by the military to justify its continued rule. Its… Read More

Squashed between the mountain slopes and the Atlantic Ocean, impoverished residents of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, are running out of space to build their homes. In desperation, they are constructing houses on land “reclaimed” from the sea in a process know there as “banking”. This involves piling up layers of tyres, rubbish, and sacks of earth on the water’s edge,… Read More

Kevin Hart’s alter ego wants to ditch comedy and become an action star in upcoming comedy “Die Hart.” Hart (“Ride Along,” “Fatherhood,” “Me Time”) plays a fictionalized version of himself who is trying to pivot from being pigeonholed as a comedy wingman to being taken seriously as an action movie star. Hart attends “action hero school” run by Ron Wilcox,… Read More

A steady flow of taxis has rolled up outside the Ivorian embassy in Tunis in recent days, depositing dozens of migrants who say they no longer feel safe amid an officially sanctioned climate of fear. After a wave of arrests in recent weeks, President Kais Saied gave a speech on Tuesday that critics said was openly racist. Many sub-Saharan Africans… Read More

French president heads off on a four-nation tour of central African countries from Wednesday as Paris seeks to counter growing Chinese and Russian influence on the continent. Emmanuel Macron presents his strategy in Africa before a trip to the continent. Speaking from Paris before his departure, he said France must show a “profound humility. “I would like to draw from… Read More

Tunisia’s top diplomat sought to “reassure” sub-Saharan African migrants on Monday, in an interview, days after comments by President Kais Saied drew accusations of racism. Last week, Saied called for “urgent measures” against “hordes” of sub-Saharan migrants, whom he accused, without evidence, of causing a wave of crime and representing a plot to change the country’s demographic make-up. Rights groups… Read More

The Nigerian presidential outsider Peter Obi has won the most votes in the key state of Lagos, narrowly beating the ruling party’s candidate in his stronghold, according to provisional results released Monday by the Electoral Commission (Inec). The economic capital of Africa’s most populous country is one of the biggest vote-getters in this hotly contested presidential race between three front-runners,… Read More

As Nigerians anxiously await the outcome of the tightly contested presidential elections, the head of the ECOWAS Observation Mission says the voting process was marred by irregularities. “The late start of voting beyond the 8:30 a.m. opening time due to the late arrival of polling officials, voting materials, and in some cases, the delivery of wrong materials at polling stations… Read More