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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari marked Monday (Jan. 23) the opening of a $1.5 billion, Chinese-funded deep seaport in the commercial hub of Lagos that authorities hope will help grow the West African nation’s ailing economy. The Lekki Deep Sea Port is one of the biggest in West Africa and will create hundreds of thousands of jobs in addition to easing… Read More

Some high-stakes fixtures for the final day in group stage of the 7th African Nations Championship (CHAN). On Tuesday, January 24, one team in group D and E will progress to the CHAN knockout stage. Mauritania will Mali in the Stadium Olympique d’Oran 5 pm (UTC + 1). Each team has secured a point in the previous matches and will… Read More

Moroccan lawmakers on Monday (Jan. 23) voted unanimously to review ties with the European Parliament, accusing it of meddling after a resolution that urged the kingdom to respect press freedom. Members of both houses of Morocco’s parliament met in the capital Rabat for a joint session in response to the non-binding European text adopted on Thursday. In a statement after… Read More

The Burkina Faso government clarified on Monday that it has asked ex-colonial ruler France to pull its troops out of the insurgency-hit country within a month. France deploys about 400 special forces soldiers in junta-ruled Burkina, but relations have deteriorated and tensions have soared in recent months. “We are terminating the agreement which allows French forces to be in Burkina… Read More

South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea  and Gabon and are in arrears on paying dues to the United Nations’ operating budget and are among six nations that have lost their voting rights in the 193-member General Assembly, the U.N. chief said in a letter circulated Thursday (Jan.19). Also losing voting rights are Dominica, Venezuela and Lebanon, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. Gabon is… Read More

After Senegal, Ghana is the latest African country where officials have been called out for misappropriating or mismanaging funds dedicated to fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. The Ghana audit service report on the government’s covid-19 expenditure for the period going from March 2020 to June 2022 is widely commented on social media. In all, GH¢21,844,189,185.24 (over a billion US $) was… Read More

Gaye Sarambounou is used to toiling long days for a pittance. He’s a Malian living in France with no working papers, but it’s a situation that occurs around the world. The difference here is that Sarambounou is one of an army of construction workers preparing next year’s Olympic Games in Paris. The fact that France’s upcoming sporting showcase is being… Read More

From cabaret feathers to sleek suits and velvet robes, Dior celebrated Josephine Baker and the wild freedom of the Roaring Twenties in a celeb-packed show on Monday to kickstart haute couture week in Paris. A parade of stars were in the front row, including Anya Taylor-Joy, Kirsten Dunst, Rosamund Pike and K-Pop’s Jisoo, to see Chiuru’s homage to the American… Read More

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in Zambia on the second leg of her African tour, a stop aimed at promoting American investment and ties. She visited the Zambia National Public Health Institute, considered a model of its kind and earlier toured Mylan Laboratories, a subsidiary of American pharmaceutical manufacturer Viatris. “Centers like this serve as hubs for better coordinating the… Read More

Moroccan football player Achraf Hakimi won the award for Best Arab Sportsman in Saudi Arabia. The 24-year-old player was rewarded for his outstanding 2022 season with his club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and his odyssey into world cup history with the Moroccan national squad. In Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, some of the biggest names in the movie industry, sports and entertainment from… Read More