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Morocco’s new coach, Walid Regragui, will be counting on winger Hakim Ziyech as the team faces 2018 finalists, Croatia, in its opening World Cup match on Wednesday. Known by his nickname, The Wizard, the Chelsea player is back in the national team one year after leaving international football because of a long-standing feud with the previous coach. Ziyech looked relaxed… Read More

Cristiano Ronaldo is to leave Manchester United with immediate effect, the English Premier League club announced on Tuesday. United said in a statement that they had reached a mutual agreement with the player to terminate his contract. The development comes days after Ronaldo took part in a television interview during which he said that he felt “betrayed” by the club… Read More

A “dozen soldiers” were killed Tuesday by jihadists who attacked an army post in western Chad, a presidential spokesman told AFP. The attack also caused “injuries”, said in a statement Brah Mahamat. It was perpetrated “in the early morning” near Ngouboua, in the Lake Chad region, on the borders of Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria, where the jihadist groups Boko… Read More

A Tanzanian court on Tuesday ordered the release of 24 Maasai after prosecutors dropped murder charges against them for the death of a policeman during a protest against a government-protected area project, their lawyer said. The Loliondo Maasai are opposed to Tanzanian authorities, who they accuse of trying to evict them from part of their historic habitat area in northern… Read More

Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s two largest cocoa producers, noted Monday “efforts” by some manufacturers to better pay producers, after giving them an ultimatum earlier this month. In a joint statement, the national cocoa management bodies of the two countries, as well as the Ivory Coast-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI), created to guarantee a minimum income to farmers, “noted the… Read More

The Moroccan opponent Mohamed Ziane, former president of the Rabat Bar and Minister of Human Rights between 1995 and 1996, was arrested and imprisoned Monday evening after being sentenced on appeal to three years in prison, a judicial source and his son said. “He was transferred to the prison of El Arjat (near Rabat). He was not even legally notified… Read More

More aid arrived in Ethiopia’s Tigray region following the signing of a truce earlier this month calling for unhindered humanitarian access to the war-torn northern region. Officials said 14 humanitarian aid trucks arrived on Sunday, including several carrying badly needed fuel and food aid from the U.N.’s World Food Programme. Catholic missionary, Father Alfred, told The Associated Press that hospitals… Read More

It’s a road that will link six African nations, improving transport and delivering high-speed internet across the continent. And at In Guezzam, on the border between Algeria and Niger, the last section of what’s been called the African Unity Road is nearing completion. Conceived over 50 years ago, the Trans-Saharan Highway runs almost 5,000 kilometres from Algiers to Lagos in… Read More

The long-awaited trial of 18 suspects believed to behind a 2016 attack by al-Qaeda gunman in the Ivorian town of Grand-Bassam is due to get underway next week. Nineteen people, including four French citizens, died in the incident and dozens others were wounded. The attack took place at the Etoile du Sud hotel in the seaside resort, which is located… Read More

Uganda says it will be sending over 1,000 troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of an East African Community force tasked with ending decades of instability in the troubled North Kivu region. Both Kenya and Burundi have already sent soldiers to the eastern province to take part in the regional force. The Uganda army spokesperson says the… Read More