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Some of the last survivors in France from a colonial-era infantry corps that recruited tens of thousands of African soldiers to fight in French wars around the world will be able to live out their final days with family members back in Africa after a French government U-turn on their pension rights. The decision to make claiming their pensions easier… Read More

“They made us join up to wage war,” said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades to when he and other young Senegalese donned uniforms to fight for distant France. “We didn’t know where we were going.” The wizened old soldier is one of the last survivors of France’s colonial-era African infantry — a force that… Read More

A Ugandan music promoter has been charged with nine counts of negligence over the death of 10 people in a New Year’s Eve stampede at a concert in the capital, Kampala. Abbey Musinguzi known as Abitex appeared before the Makindye chief magistrates’ court on Tuesday evening. He denied the charges and was remanded at Luzira prison. The prosecution alleges he… Read More

The Egyptian pound tumbled on Wednesday in its largest single-day slide since the cash-strapped government agreed to a $3 billion International Monetary Fund deal in mid-December, authorities said. The pound fell from around 24.7 for $1 to just over 26.3 against the dollar, some three weeks after Egypt and the IMF formally ratified the support package, approved in exchange for… Read More

Equatorial Guinea’s vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, who is also the son of the president, has accused the country’s former colonial power Spain of “interference.” The allegation comes after Spain’s judiciary opened an investigation into the “kidnapping” and “torture” of two Spanish nationals,  Feliciano Efa Mangue and Julio Obama Mefuman, in the West African state’s capital Malabo. Both were opponents of President… Read More

Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe, who is mediating in the case of 46 Ivorian soldiers suspected of being “mercenaries” and detained in Mali since July, arrived in Bamako on Wednesday, a diplomatic official and an airport source told AFP. “President Faure has just arrived in Bamako for a visit of some hours. He was welcomed by President Assimi Goïta,” Abdoulaye Cissé,… Read More

Without quick IMF deal harder times lie ahead, Tunisia’s central bank chief warned Wednesday (Jan.04). The country is struggling under debt worth nearly 90 percent of its GDP. It reached an agreement in principle with the International Monerary Fund in mid-October, for a package worth around $2 billion. It now awaits the IMF’s stamp of approval to access other sources… Read More

Somali government on Wednesday began the prosecution of the secretary-general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) Abdalle Ahmed Mumin who continues to face severe restrictions since October last year. Abdalle Mumin was presented before the Banadir Regional Court in Mogadishu with his lawyers, media representatives and a dozen of journalists. Several members of the Somali Federal Parliament and civil society… Read More

Spanish authorities announced that they dismantled an organization that had sent more than 5,000 tons of hazardous electronic waste from the Canary Islands to several African countries. Senegal, Nigeria, Mauritania and Ghana are among the said states. According to the Spanish Customs and Civil Guard, the “criminal organization that, during the last two years, had managed to send from the… Read More

South African world champion captain Siya Kolisi has signed with Racing 92 in France. However, the third row will only join the Parisian club after the 2023 Rugby World Cup which takes place in France between September and October. Kolisi 31, is currently playing for the Sharks, one of the five South African franchises that are participating since this season… Read More