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After an impeccable World Cup performance, Moroccan players Sofiane Boufal and Azzedine Ounahi are still reluctant to return to their respective football clubs Sofiane Boufal’s side, Angers FC sit at the bottom of League one table and are in need of the winger despite his absence. Boufal has not yet mention his return date and is considered still in vacation… Read More

The international wildlife and conservation charity Born Free has warned that hippo numbers in Africa are continuing to decline as legislation, partly due to the tightening of the illegal ivory trade. The giant teeth of hippos which, like the tusks of warthogs, are also classified as ivory, have become much cheaper and easier to obtain than ivory from elephants. And… Read More

Dutch club PSV Eindhoven announced on Monday having reached an agreement with Liverpool for the transfer of Dutch striker Cody Gakpo.  The 23-year old of Ghanaian origin is the top scorer in the Dutch league and comes off a successful World Cup despite Argentina’s quarter-final exit. In Qatar, he scored two goals in five appearances. Cody Gakpo was coveted by… Read More

Angola’s Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday the preventive seizure of assets of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former president Eduardo dos Santos deceased last year. This is the second seizure of Isabel dos Santos assets in Angola since 2019.  The court order covers 100 percent of the shares of the company Embalvidro, of which the defendant is the beneficial owner… Read More

Ethiopia’s national carrier Ethiopian Airlines said it would resume commercial flights to the war-torn region of Tigray on Wednesday after a shutdown lasting 18 months. The announcement comes a day after an Ethiopian delegation made the first high-level government visit to the rebel-held region since the signing of a peace deal last month. The airline, the biggest carrier in Africa,… Read More

Eight Congolese soldiers and a civilian were sentenced to death, on appeal, by a military court in Ituri province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Two of the eight were high-ranking colonels.  The prosecution successfully argued that the two colonels had organised and planned an attack on a convoy carrying Chinese workers… Read More

Tunisia’s finance minister unveiled a budget Monday aiming to use new tax revenues to claw the deficit back to near five percent of GDP, as the cash-strapped country awaits an international bailout. The 2023 budget comes as the North African country grapples with eye-watering public debt, shortages of goods from sugar to petrol and inflation at nearly 10 percent. The… Read More

Fighting between the rebel M23 group and the army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, continued on Monday, according to residents contacted by telephone by AFP from Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu. According to the United Nations and the United States, the mostly ethnic M23 group is backed by neighbouring Rwanda, which is mostly governed by ethnic Tutsis.… Read More

Al-Shabab Islamist militants attacked Taa village in the Pandaguo area of Lamu county on Christmas Day – a Christian religious holiday – and killed two local men. The area neighbours Boni forest, where security agencies have been conducting an operation since 2015 to flush out militants in hiding. The forest near the Kenya-Somalia border and the area around it have been… Read More

Boko Haram jihadists attacked herders guarding their cattle in a pasture near Airamne village in Mafa district on Saturday, a local militia group said. “Seventeen herders were killed in the fight and all their cattle taken away,” militia leader Babakura Kolo said. “The herders put (up) resistance but were outgunned and outnumbered by the attackers, who had better weapons,” said… Read More