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The French ambassador to Burkina Faso, Luc Hallade, is “still at work” in the capital Ouagadougou, a French diplomatic source told AFP on Tuesday. “The team is doing an outstanding job in difficult conditions,” the source added, contradicting an announcement on Monday by Burkina Faso’s military junta that he had been expelled. The former French colony has seen a surge in… Read More

Two suicide car bombers killed at least 10 people early Wednesday (Jan. 04) when they targeted a military facility in central Somalia. A Police official said the vehicles exploded in a neighborhood full of civilians. The attack occurred in the Mahaas district of Hiran region after the dawn prayer. According to witnesses, several people were wounded in the attack, including… Read More

Ivorian centre-forward Sébastien Haller, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer in the summer of 2022, was optimistic about a “return to the field” in 2023, he hoped in a message on the social networks overnight from Monday to Tuesday. “Happy New Year everyone! And it’s off to a very good start for me, because it means getting back on the… Read More

A Tunisian appeals court has ruled that the prosecution of a queer activist in a landmark LGBTQ case is “null and void,” an NGO and a judicial spokesman said Tuesday. The decision in the case known as “students of Kairouan”, concerns only Daniel, the nickname of the activist present at the hearing of December 19, the other five Tunisian defendants… Read More

A Ugandan soldier has shot and killed three colleagues serving in Somalia as part of an African Union peacekeeping force, Uganda’s military said Tuesday. Uganda People’s Defense Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Felix Kulayigye said the soldier woke up Monday morning and “sprayed bullets” at his colleagues. All four were part of the force guarding the international airport in Somalia’s capital,… Read More

Every morning, Butsiire Samuel goes to this camp in Kanyaruchinya near Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east. Together with a team of volunteer artists, he uses his talent to teach drawing to displaced children. The aim is to give them hope again through art therapy, while providing them with psychological support centred on artistic expression. The paintings are… Read More

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted Tuesday (Jan. 05) a ban on opposition rallies imposed in 2016 by her strongman predecessor, in an overture to political rivals seeking the restoration of democratic traditions. Hassan has been under pressure to break with the hard-line policies of John Magufuli, who died in 2021 after a six-year-rule in a country once seen as… Read More

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s last surviving World War Two veteran, Corporal Albert Kunyuku, will be buried on Friday (Jan. 6). The Congolese film director José Adolphe Voto made the announcement. One of his latest works title “L’Ombre des oubliés” or “The Shadow of the Forgotten” was based on the life of late Albert Kunyuku. Family members of the corporal… Read More

The world of football lost “King” Pelé in 2022, but the name of this legendary player will still live on, notably through the 738 Peruvian children born last year. According to the list published by the Peruvian National Civil Registry at the end of 2022, a total of 738 babies were registered as Pelé, Rey Pelé, Edson Arantes or Edson… Read More

A Senegalese journalist and prominent anti-government critic is “extremely strained” after a two-week hunger strike he launched in protest of his detention, his lawyer said on Monday. Pape Ale Niang, head of the Dakar Matin online news site, was arrested on November 6 and charged with “divulging information likely to harm national defense.” Niang, widely followed in Senegal for his… Read More