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Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, has said there has been no break in diplomatic relations with France. It comes after he asked the former coloniser to withdraw its forces. He also denied Russian Wagner mercenaries, a private army of Russian President Vladimir Putin, were active in the country. He said: “We’ve heard everywhere in the press that Wagner is… Read More

In the Libyan town of Ghadames, known as the “Pearl of the Desert”, Tuareg traditions are being celebrated with a huge craft and shopping festival. Built around an oasis and spring, the UNESCO-listed city, more than 600 kilometres south of Tripoli, is one of the oldest communities in the pre-saharan region and families from all over the country flock to… Read More

Pope Francis’ strong words against the suffering they are enduring have warmed the hearts of people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but his visit to Kinshasa has not marked a truce in the fighting and violence. Throughout the papal visit, from Tuesday to Friday, fighting continued in North Kivu province, where M23 rebels captured new villages, sources… Read More

When Morocco’s “ultras” crowd into a football stadium, the fan groups’ full-throated chants, spectacular pyrotechnics and sometimes rowdy and anti-authoritarian antics often steal the show. Casablanca’s stadium rings to the chants of passionate supporters of the city’s Wydad club as they raise coloured placards aloft to form a vast, moving mosaic that spells out their motto: “Free souls”. The club’s… Read More

A judge caused a stir in Colombia by announcing that he used the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT to rule on a case concerning an autistic child, we learned Thursday from concordant sources. “This opens up immense prospects, today it could be ChatGPT, but in three months it could be any other alternative to facilitate the drafting of legal texts on… Read More

Already struggling without electricity for hours a day, many South Africans are now having to do also without water, as power outages batter the supply system. A power failure at a pump station feeding reservoirs and water towers caused taps to run dry in parts of Johannesburg and Pretoria, provincial utility Rand Water said this week. This further aggravated residents… Read More

Pope Francis made a plea for peace in South Sudan while speaking at event sitting side-by-side with the country’s president on Friday. Francis, on a novel ecumenical peace mission to the world’s youngest country, warned South Sudan’s political leaders on Friday that history will judge them harshly if they continue to drag their feet implementing a 2018 peace accord. Accompanying… Read More

At least 40,000 people are expected at the Stade Nelson Mandela in Algiers on Saturday for the CHAN final between Senegal and Algeria. Algeria go into the final not having conceded in five matches with goalkeeper Farid Chaal, standing in for the suspended Alexis Guendouz, troubled only during a brief spell of second-half Nigerien pressure. “We faced the Senegalese national… Read More

Security forces in South Sudan were preparing Thursday for the arrival of Pope Francis who visits the nation as part of his African journey. Francis kicked off his six day tour in Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday where he has already presided over a Mass for 1 million people and heard firsthand of atrocities some have endured following… Read More

A Kenyan former policeman was sentenced to death on Friday for the murder of a human rights lawyer, his client and a taxi driver. Frederick Leliman and three others were convicted of carrying out the murders in 2016, in one of a series of cases of alleged police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya. Lawyer Willie Kimani was representing a… Read More