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Tram and bus workers in the Tunisian capital staged a strike over delays in salaries and the lack of an end-of-year bonus Monday, creating traffic jams across Tunis. The strike is the latest in a string of similar actions as Tunisia grapples with an economic crisis that has led to frequent shortages of basic goods from petrol to cooking oil.… Read More

Local sources from Kibumba on Monday, reported that the withdrawal of the M23 rebels from Kibumba, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is still “not effective. A Tutsi rebellion defeated in 2013, the M23 (“March 23 Movement”) has seized a large portion of the territory north of Goma, capital of North Kivu province, in recent months. The most advanced… Read More

**On Monday (Jan. 2), staff from state-owned public transport firm Transtu walked out and hundreds demonstrated outside the prime minister’s office, responding to a call by the transport section of the powerful UGTT trade union federation.** The strike froze “the majority” of transport services across the capital of almost three million people, Transtu said. The strike is the latest in… Read More

Ugandan police said on Monday they had arrested one of the  organisers of a new year’s eve party where ten revellers died in a crush. Local media identified the man as music promoter Abbey Musinguzi of Abitex Promotions. He is well known for organising major events in the capital Kampala; his party was in the popular Freedom City shopping mall in the… Read More

Mourners on Monday queued to see Pele’s coffin in the Urbano Caldeira Stadium, the home of the Brazilian football legend’s long-time club, Santos. The three-time World Cup champion’s coffin left Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo early on Monday and was taken to the stadium, where he played some of the best matches of his career for the Santos soccer… Read More

Hundreds of Senegalese civilians demonstrated in Dakar on Saturday by banging pots and pans during president Macky Sall’s end of year speech. Both the demonstration and Friday’s protest were to demand legal action after a report on the management of anti-Covid funds was found to contain numerous irregularities. The opposition has repeatedly denounced the authorities’ “theft” after an audit by… Read More

The death toll from an explosion of a tanker truck on Christmas Eve near eastern Johannesburg has risen to 34, including 10 health workers at a nearby hospital, officials report. The truck was carrying gas when it got stuck under a low-lying bridge in the town of Boksburg, sparking flames. As firefighters tried to extinguish them the tanker exploded, according… Read More

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had given Mali until January 1st to release 46 Ivorian soldiers it claims are mercenaries. However, the date has now passed and the 46 soldiers, who were sentenced to 20 years in prison, have not been released.  It appears ECOWAS, the main regional body for West Africa, does not intend to punish… Read More

Hundreds of Senegalese demonstrated in Dakar on Friday to demand legal action after numerous irregularities were found in a report by the Court of Auditors on the management of anti-Covid funds, an AFP journalist noted. The crowd gathered at the Place de la Nation in Dakar, under the call of a dozen civil society organisations, shouting “To the thieves” and… Read More

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, died Saturday. He was 95. Benedict stunned the world on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced, in his typical, soft-spoken Latin, that he no longer had… Read More