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The Ethiopian government said on Saturday it was sending about $90 million to the Tigrayan capital to help restart banking services in the country. Prime Minister Abiy’s national security advisor, Redwan Hussein, announced on Twitter that the National Bank had started to send the money to the capital Mekele for distribution from Monday Ethiopian Airlines was also planning to increase… Read More

Algeria coach Madjid Bougherra said he feels disappointed after losing 5-4 on penalties to Senegal in the final of the African Nations Championship (CHAN). Senegal was crowned in the African championship on penalties 5-4 in front a full capacity Nelson Mandela stadium in Algiers. The two teams battled for a 0-0 draw in first 90 minutes. Extra time was also… Read More

On his final day in South Sudan, Pope Francis made another appeal for peace in the country. As he celebrated Mass on Sunday in front of a congregation of thousands, Francis begged South Sudanese people to lay down their weapons and forgive one another. In an address he said: “Even if our hearts bleed for the wrongs we have suffered,… Read More

A human rights NGO in Burkina Faso has accused the army of killing at least 25 civilians, including a woman and a baby, in the east of the country this week, according to a statement carried by AFP on Friday. Neither the army nor the Burkinabe government reacted initially to these accusations. The east of Burkina Faso is one of… Read More

Pope Francis continued his tour of South Sudan with a visit to St. Teresa’s Cathedral in Juba on Saturday where he met hundreds of women holding signs for hope and peace. Among the crowds was Sister Orla Treacy who runs the Loreto Mission, a secondary school for girls in Rumbek, where she aims to increase the number of girls being… Read More

Pope Francis arrived Friday in South Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world, the first papal visit to this independent country for ten years and undermined by violence and climatic hazards. The country, landlocked between lush African rainforests and arid deserts, borders Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. It has… Read More

One of the leaders of the Senegalese opposition, Ousmane Sonko, refrained from appearing before a Dakar court on Thursday for a defamation trial on which his presidential candidacy in 2024 could depend, noted a journalist from the AFP. Mr. Sonko’s lawyers told the court that their client had not received a summons, an argument contradicted by the prosecution and the… Read More

An apex predator, created in vibrant florals. Florists and gardeners are putting the finishing touches to this lion installation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The huge sculpture is the centrepiece of Kew annual orchid festival. Planning for the event began last summer. For the last three weeks, five Kew gardeners and an army of almost 1,000 volunteers have been… Read More

Tunisia’s powerful UGTT trade union has accused President Kais Saied of targeting it as a distraction from record low election turnout and what’s been called a “total failure” of his economic policies. On Friday 3 February UGTT chief Noureddine Taboubi held a meeting in Gammarth to discuss the arrest of the union’s senior official Anis Kaabi earlier in the week.… Read More

Pope Francis has been trying to console the long-suffering people of South Sudan as he opened his first full day in the country on Saturday. Meeting with bishops, priests and deacons at St Theresa’s Cathedral in Juba, he asked people to challenge injustice amid an ethnic conflict that has led to years of fighting. He appealed to his brothers and… Read More