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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

Ethiopia and Tigray rebels have signed a peace deal but not before two years of ferocious fighting and economic devastation. Amidst the war and a pandemic, Addis Ababa’s GDP slowed from 9% in 2019 to 6.1% in 2020, 6.2% in 2021. The IMF predicts growth of just 3.8% in 2022. The country also faces mounting debt and has run to… Read More

In Benin and Togo, the rising popularity of electric motorbike taxis. Motorcycle taxis are a popular and cheap form of transportation in West Africa. But increasingly in Benin and Togo, drivers and customers are swapping gasoline-powered motorcycles for electric models that are more environmentally friendly and, above all, less expensive. Oloufounmi Koucoi, 38, company is delivering the models to Cotonou.… Read More

The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon have lost their first match against Switzerland in the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Karl Toko Ekambi and his team mates fell short to a lone goal in their Group G opener from a Cameroonian born Swiss player Breel Embolo. The 25 year old Swiss international, born in Yaoundé scored the only goal of the game… Read More

Authorities in Namibia’s capital Windhoek on Wednesday took down and relocated a statue of a controversial German colonial officer following pressure from local activists. The monument commemorated Curt von Francois, a German army commissioner who has been credited with founding Windhoek — something local campaigners and historians dispute. The statue, which stood on a high pedestal outside municipal buildings, depicted… Read More

A few days after South Africa’s top court ordered the release on parole of Janusz Walus, the ruling continues to cause outrage. Groups, the family of late Chris Hani and political parties have slammed the decision. Walus has served over two decades of a life sentence for the murder in 1993 of Hani, an anti-apartheid leader. “It took the country… Read More

On Wednesday (Nov 23), Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa officially opened the Fifth Session of the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe. He delivered his State of the Nation address in a newly built Parliament. The multimillion-dollar building was gifted by the Asian economic giant China. Mnangagwa called for peace as the country prepares for general elections. “Political players seeking the people’s mandate… Read More

Democratic Republic of Congo leader Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta went into talks on Wednesday in Angola amid heightened tensions in eastern DRC. Tshisekedi and Biruta were received at a hotel in the capital, Luanda, by Angolan President Joao Lourenco, who is acting as a mediator between the two neighbours, according to an AFP correspondent. Rwanda’s President… Read More

The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon will on Thursday play their first game at the 2022 world cup. They will face the Switzerlands. Cameroon will for sure miss some of their former nationals who play for other countries.  One of these promising strikers is Breel Embolo who was born in Yaoundé. Embolo arrived in Europe at the age of 4. He… Read More