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Kenyan soldiers landed in the city of Goma in eastern DRC, Saturday (Nov 12). They were greeted by local dignitaries and Congolese forces in the region. Their arrival comes as the M23 rebel group has surged across the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, capturing swathes of territory and inflaming tensions in the Great Lakes region. “The instructions of… Read More

South African Kim Engelbrecht became the fifth African female actor to receive an Emmy nomination in late September. She hopes her career will help motivate other young South Africans chase their dreams. Heads turn and jaws drop when she walks down a Cape Town street. She was born and raised in the port city and is a familiar face here. The 42-year-old… Read More

Conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has kept away tourists. The fighting has also scared away, even killed and maimed mountain gorillas, Virunga National Park’s most important attraction. On International Gorilla day, a local conservation group took its message to teenagers living near the Virunga National Park. Fighting between the M23 and government forces has denied rangers access to… Read More

Jean Baptiste Saleyo lives in Ivory Coast’s Bas-Sassandra region. The man has farmed cocoa on several acres of his family land for years. However, this year’s unpredictable rain has affected his crop. Inspecting the ripeness of one of his cocoa pods leaves him sad. “When it should have rained, it didn’t, it didn’t rain. It’s now the end of October… Read More

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is yet to fulfil its promise by taking action to protect its people despite promise, local sources have revealed. “We woke up to heavy fighting in Rugari,” a resident of the town, about 30km north of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, told AFP by phone. He said the population had fled north.… Read More

A court in Angola has jailed dozens of former soldiers belonging to the presidential guard for up to 14 years for fraud and embezzlement in a high-profile mass corruption trial. Forty-nine people including officers employed during the era of former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and linked to the presidential security service, as well as bank workers, went on trial… Read More

Ballon d’Or runner-up Sadio Mane was named in Senegal’s World Cup squad by coach Aliou Cisse on Friday in spite of a recent injury. Cisse, who captained Senegal at the 2002 World Cup, said he hoped the condition of the Bayern Munich attacker would improve within a few weeks and declared himself “really optimistic” that the injury would not require… Read More

President Joe Biden arrived Friday in Egypt for a global climate meeting with a giant domestic investment in tow – and he’s likely to face questions about how far the U.S. will go to pull other large greenhouse gas emitters along. His attendance at the U.N. climate conference, known as COP27, in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh is the… Read More

After a tiring day, Guy Bertrand pulls his taxi into a side street in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde, whips out a plastic sachet of whisky and knocks it back in one go. “I like a good strong kick,” he says, sitting behind the wheel. It’s often the most deprived Cameroonians who consume such strong but cheap alcoholic shots, known locally as “sachet… Read More

At least 12 people were killed when a gasoline tanker crashed on a major road and then exploded in Nigeria’s northcentral Kogi State, police said Friday. The tanker had a brake failure along a major road in the Ofu council area on Thursday night when it collided with a vehicle obstructing the highway, causing a fireball, a police spokesman told… Read More