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France’s foreign minister has visited Ivory Coast for talks on security and trade with President Alassane Ouattara and his government. Speaking in the economic capital Abidjan on Friday, Catherine Colonna said France will remain at the side of its former French colony “in all areas.” Around 900 French soldiers are stationed in Ivory Coast and France is one of its… Read More

The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states, which represents 79 countries, held its penultimate meeting in Angola’s capital Luanda on Friday. It’s the tenth heads of state summit that the OACPS has held and the first of three that Angola will hold as the rotating presidency. The theme for this year’s meeting is titled “Three Continents, Three… Read More

Morocco are aiming for the first world semi-final by an African team, a mission narrowly missed by Cameroon (1990), Senegal (2002) and Ghana (2010), all pushed into extra time. The first Africans to reach this level at the Italian “World” in 1990, the Indomitable Lions thought they were reaching the last four. When Roger Milla sends an assist to Eugène… Read More

Photographer Edward Burtynsky exhibited in London a collection of photographs captured in Africa between 2015 and 2019. Entitled “African Studies”, the images draw attention to the effects of globalisation and the scale of transformation taking place on the continent. “You know, most of the imagery that has come out of Africa, either is more an anthropological study of the colourful… Read More

*Coach Walid Regragui restated Morocco’s ambition durign a press conference Friday (Dec. 9), as the team prepares to play Portugal on Saturday (Dec. 10). The entire Moroccan squad eye a historic semi final spot in the Qatar World Cup. “Nobody expected us to see us in the last 16 or the quarter-finals, and we have another match to get us… Read More

United States authorities announced on Friday they are imposing sanctions against Guinea’s former leader Alpha Condé. The sanctions are related to violence against opponents before being ousted in a coup in 2021. The former Guinean leader will have his US assets frozen. All transactions involving Alpha Condé will also be criminalized. Condébecame the first democratically elected president of Guinea in… Read More

It was 30 years ago that a humanitarian operation to relieve hunger in Somalia turned into a bloody conflict. The aim of the US-led operation “Restore Hope” was to create the conditions for the delivery of humanitarian aid. “At the beginning, under the UNITAF operation, US-led countries came to Somalia to deliver humanitarian aid as a long as the people… Read More

Heavy rains during Thursday and Friday morning have provoked flash floods in parts of Gauteng province in South Africa. In Lenasia, a suburb south of Soweto, residents quickly mobilised to respond to cries for help. The rise in water levels left some residents with no choice but to abandon their homes. Many residents, mostly elderly, had to be rescued from… Read More

Building on the experience of battling the COVID-19 pandemic, African countries are strengthening health systems to prepare for the next health crisis, the World Health Organization’s Africa director said Thursday. At the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, some of the 54 countries in the continent of 1.3 billion people lacked the facilities or trained health workers to respond… Read More

South Africa’s main opposition party on Thursday called on the government to explain why a Russian cargo ship targeted by Western sanctions is docked at a naval base in Cape Town. The cargo ship arrived at the country’s largest naval base at Simon’s Town on Tuesday, the Democratic Alliance (DA) party said, adding that it appeared to have turned off… Read More