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The history making Atlas lions of Morocco being cheered on by fans.They are celebrating the North African team’s shock win over Portugal, as it becomes the first African side to reach the World Cup semi-finals. “We can’t believe it, even now we still can’t believe it. We are still in a dream and we will wake up the day we… Read More

Cyril Ramaphosa, 70, is the only candidate ahead of his former health minister, Zweli Mkhize, for president of the African National Congress (ANC). The party meets next week to decide who will lead the country if the increasingly contested ANC wins the 2024 general election. But before that internal vote, Parliament will decide on Tuesday whether to launch impeachment proceedings… Read More

In Chad, 80 minors who had been arrested last October during bloody demonstrations in the capital, N’Djamena, have been granted provisional bail by the authorities. The minors were part of a group of hundreds of people who were arrested by the police and taken to a high-security jail. “When I saw him today I jumped on him to kiss him… Read More

The main events of the 10th summit of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States ended Friday, not Saturday as planned. With the departure of the Angolan president for another summit, the USA-Africa, in Washington. The Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister was present at the event, in Luanda. During Tanja Fajon’s first visit to Angola, the Slovenian head of diplomacy… Read More

Morocco is the latest African team to make history by entering the last eight of the world cup, thanks to coach Walid Regragui who turned the story of the team around following the team’s failure at the AFCON. Regragui was appointed before the tournament with Moroccan football in turmoil after the previous coach Vahid Halilhodzic was sacked over “differences of… Read More

Dishes of spit-roasted lamb were served and the sound of electric guitars echoed across the pink Saharan dunes towards the Air Mountains. “It’s like playing at home,” said musician Oumara Moctar. The desert, he said, “is where we were born, where we grew up, and reminds us of where we come from.” One of the biggest cultural events in the… Read More

The body of a Zambian student who was recruited from a Russian prison and killed in fighting in Ukraine will be repatriated to his family on Sunday, the Zambian government said Friday. Lemekhani Nathan Nyirenda, 23 and serving a prison sentence near Moscow, was killed in September fighting on the side of the Russian army. “Lemekhani’s body arrived in Moscow… Read More

After fleeing the Kishishe massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s volatile east, the survivors recount how they fled to Kitshanga to a displaced peoples’ camp, which has been home to many displaced people for over 20 years. “We were told that many people died in Kishishe,” says one woman who followed the river’s path to escape the massacre with… Read More

On Saturday – which was International Human Rights Day – the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific States discussed how it can improve the human rights records of its 79 member states. In its 2022 report, for instance, Human Rights Watch said that the security forces of the host state Angola continued to be implicated in “serious human rights abuses,… Read More

Youssef En-Nesyri scored the winning goal in the 42nd minute and wrote his country into the history books. Never before has an African nation made it into the World Cup semi-finals, but now Morocco is the pride of the continent. Amongst African teams, Cameroon reached the quarter-finals in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010, but no further than… Read More