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South Sudan’s President has urged the country’s more than two million refugees to return home in his first meeting with displaced people since civil war erupted almost a decade ago. President Salva Kiir’s appeal on Wednesday came as the country prepares to hold its first elections since gaining independence from Sudan in 2011. South Sudan’s delayed elections are set to… Read More

Several damage were caused by cyclone Freddy in the city of Mananjary in Madagascar. Four people were killed by the passage of Freddy on the large island of 28 million inhabitants, according to a report given in the morning by the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) which did not change during the day.  More than 16,600 Malagasy… Read More

Authorities in Madagascar have announced that the passage of powerful tropical cyclone Freddy resulted in four dead. The storm affected some 16,600 people according to the country’s National Risk Management Office. The powerful gusts of wind reached around 130 kilometres per hour; contrary to last year’s cyclone Batsirai, cyclone Freddy did not bring as much rain as expected. Freddy is… Read More

Nigerians are facing severe economic hardship ahead of Saturday’s presidential election in Africa’s most populous country, with double-digit inflation, low wages, cash and fuel shortages. The economic recovery of the English-speaking giant, a country of 215 million people, will be one of the major issues at stake in the election. Inflation is approaching 22%, and the national currency, the naira,… Read More

A Tunisian migration NGO has denounced a speech by President Kais Saied as “racist and hateful” in which he maligned sub-Saharan African migrants as a source of “violence, crimes and unacceptable acts.” On Tuesday Saied called for “urgent measures” against the migration of sub-Saharan Africans to his country. In the past some of the migrants reaching Tunisia have been refugees fleeing… Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa participated in the opening ceremony for the trilateral naval drills involving Russia, China and South Africa. The naval exercise, named Mosi II, is taking place off South Africa’s Indian Ocean coast. Speaking on the opening ceremony, Russian Navy Commander, Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, reaffirmed the close ties between the three countries. “(This, Ed.) certainly became a… Read More

After an interruption that lasted two years due to the pandemic, Carnival returned to the streets of Bissau last Saturday bringing together all ethnic groups in a show of colour and unity. “The Guinea Bissau carnival is authentic and original, because it shows the customs of each ethnic group in the country and its cultural diversity: its dynamics, its way… Read More

Former governor Peter Obi is the youngest of the three frontrunners in Nigeria’s presidential race. At 61, Peter Obi is the candidate for the Labour Party and is facing former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, running for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and former vice president and sixth time hopeful Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party… Read More

Nigeria, which will elect its new president on Saturday, is the most populous country in Africa and one of the most dynamic on the continent, but it’s also plagued by growing insecurity and worsening poverty. More than 200 million inhabitants Located in West Africa on the Atlantic Ocean, Nigeria is the most populous country on the continent with some 216… Read More

Former Nigerian vice president Atiku Abubakar is vying once again for the country’s top job in Saturday’s presidential elections. This is the sixth time in three decades that Abubakar tries to reach the Nigerian presidency. The 76-year old is campaigning for the opposition’s People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and faces Bola Tinubu from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party and… Read More