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Around 150 Sudanese protesters rallied Thursday in front of the United Nations headquarters in Khartoum to denounce ethnic clashes that have killed more than 200 people this month in Blue Nile state. Demonstrators held banners reading “No to deaths”, “We want to live in peace”, demanding an end to the violence that erupted in early October over reported land disputes… Read More

Kenyan President William Ruto’s cabinet was sworn in on Thursday, two months after he narrowly won a bitterly-fought but largely peaceful election. The 22-member line-up will be tasked with tackling the cost of living crisis and other economic issues in the East African country, the cornerstone of Ruto’s election campaign manifesto. “You will have my support because you have no… Read More

The world’s top cocoa producers, Ghana and Ivory Coast, are boycotting meetings in Brussels of the World Cocoa Foundation on cocoa sustainability this Wednesday and Thursday (October 26 and 27). Authorities in the two West African countries accuse multinational chocolate companies and traders of blocking measures to improve cocoa farmers’ incomes. Ghana and Ivory coast’s grievances concern the Living Income… Read More

Italian artist Alessandra Ferrini who is based in London won the MAXXI Bulgari Prize for her video installation titled “Gadhafi in Rome: Notes for a Film”. A video installation titled “Gadhafi in Rome: Notes for a Film, focuses on the Libyan leader’s first official visit to Italy in 2009.  The work was awarded at the third edition of the MAXXI Bulgari Prize, in… Read More

Diageo Plc, the largest spirits producer in the world, announced on Friday that it has proposed to purchase more shares in Kenya’s East African Breweries in order to increase its interest there by a third to 65%. The multinational alcoholic beverage company Diageo announced in a statement that it is making an offer to purchase 118.39 million shares at 192… Read More

Burkina Faso’s new government on Wednesday declared its top priority would be to secure the nation’s territory, after the latest coup to rock the jihadist-torn Sahel state. A UN envoy warned in New York that around 4.9 million, or a fifth of the population, need urgent aid in Burkina Faso as many “mothers were forced to feed their children with… Read More

The dismissal of South Sudan’s vice president, Riek Machar from his party the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, SPLM, continues to generate reactions. The SPLM’s Secretary for Political Affairs, Mobilization and Organization Kuol Atem is the latest to respond to the dismissal. Machar along with Pagan Amum, formerly senior members of the party, were dismissed after both established breakaway parties– the SPLM-IO… Read More

For years, illegal sand mining otherwise known as sand poaching has been a growing cancer in Zimbabwe. Thousands of hectares of land in the country’s capital city, Harare have been left extensively damaged “We have resorted to sand poaching and brick laying because there are no jobs. It’s easy for us to find the sand we need because its easily… Read More

Mechanical diggers are hard at work in the yellowish landscape of the Moanda open-cast mine in Gabon. This region located in the east of the central African nation contains as much as a quarter of known global reserves of the ore, according to the Compagnie Miniere de l’Ogooue (Comilog), a subsidiary of the French group Eramet which operates the site.… Read More

Burundi’s foreign affairs minister officially declared that the border between the East African country and Rwanda has been reopened. “All the borders of Burundi with its neighboring countries are open”, the ministry tweeted without much detail on October 22. On October 25, minister Albert Shingiro confirmed in a press conference the border reopening with Rwanda. He also indicated that Burundi… Read More