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African leaders meeting in Niger’s capital Niamey have called for a doubling of efforts to promote industrialization in Africa. The leaders including Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa made the call during an Extraordinary Summit on Industrialization and Economic Diversification. The leaders also urged increased private sector participation areas such as agriculture, agro-industry, health, education, infrastructure,… Read More

Tourists are flocking to a bar in Morocco searching for the spirit of Humphrey Bogart’s iconic, fictional nightclub, 80 years after the classic wartime film “Casablanca” hit the silver screen. The Moroccan port city entered the cultural imagination of the United States at a key point in World War II, thanks to the moody romance starring Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa… Read More

The first to die of AIDS was his father, followed by his mother a year later. Like many South Africans in the mid-2000s, Ndumiso Gamede lost his parents in quick succession. Treatment has since stabilised the crisis, but the effects of this “lost generation” are still being felt. Now a rapper, the 28-year-old, who had to raise his younger brothers… Read More

A group of gunmen killed three police escorts and kidnapped the manager of a Nigerian oil company in southeastern Nigeria, the latest incident in the region, police said Friday. Dressed in military uniforms, the attackers ambushed and fired on the convoy of a senior oil executive in the Rumuokoro area of Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State and Nigeria’s oil… Read More

Hundreds of Congolese marched in Goma eastern DRC, Thursday (Nov. 24). The demonstration took place one day after a meeting in Luanda where the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda as well as the East African Community envoy called for a cease-fire to take effect Friday. “I mean, we are satisfied with this agreement signed (ceasefire signed in Angola on Wednesday), but we… Read More

They flinched at every threat from the opposition and rued missed opportunities. Cameroonian fans gathered in Yaounde in big numbers to watch their team take on Switzerland in the first game of Group G at the Qatar World Cup on Thursday (Nov. 24).  Despite a Breel Embolo goal handing the Swiss victory, the Cameroonians remain unfazed. “We saw some excellent… Read More

Daisy Ankunda expects to give birth soon. During this trimester, she must constantly monitor her baby. But she doesn’t have to go to the hospital for the checks, thanks to a digital fetal monitoring tool developed by a team of Ugandan engineers. With the Wekebere device, she can personally tell whether the baby is in distress, as she sees the… Read More

The black stars of Ghana put up a solid fight against a Christiano Ronaldo led Portugal but lost 3- 2 in what concluded a bad day for African sides at the World Cup. The west African side playing defensively through the first 45 minutes managed to stop the relentless Portuguese attack but fell short in the second half- conceding their… Read More

A new day beckons for Senegal at the World Cup. Beaten by the Netherlands in their first match in Qatar, the Lions of Teranga must react this Friday against the host nation. Like Edouard Mendy, the African champions were unusually feeble in defensive last Monday. For this second game, they will have to do without their key player Cheikou Kouyate.… Read More

Prosecutors in the Comoros on Thursday sought a life sentence for former president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi who was tried in absentia for high treason. Sambi, 64, the arch opponent to current president Azali Assoumani, faces charges related to the alleged sale of Comorian passports to stateless people living in Gulf nations. “He betrayed the mission entrusted to him by the… Read More