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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the war in the northern Tigray region “will end and peace will prevail”. He made the remarks on Thursday when he inaugurated a talent development centre in Oromia regional state. “The situation in northern Ethiopia will come to an end, peace will prevail. We will not continue fighting forever. I believe that in a… Read More

The 14th edition of the Africa Eco Race set off this week from Monaco towards the Lac Rose in Senegal. The caravan of the rally arrived Tuesday in Nador in Morocco and later crossed to Mauritania. The race almost resembles the popular Dakar race but it intends to be much more sensitive to the environment. Thus the vehicles competing are… Read More

Former South African President Jacob Zuma, forced to resign in 2018 as he was so mired in corruption scandals and accusations, accused his successor Cyril Ramaphosa of being “corrupt” on Saturday. “The president is corrupt” and “he has committed treason,” he said in his first reaction to allegations that Ramaphosa was involved in an obscure burglary case. “No president should… Read More

Nigerian farmers say they are expecting poor harvests this year after heavier than average rains pummeled crops and brought widespread floods. The flooding is affecting most of Nigeria’s states and other countries in the region killing hundreds. Celina Gowan has been farming her 5 hectares of land in Abuja for over 20 years. After this week’s overnight heavy rain, she… Read More

Guinea’s ruling junta has agreed to hand over power to civilians after two years, giving up under threat of imminent sanctions to run the country for three years, says a document from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). “In a dynamic compromise, the experts of ECOWAS and Guinea have jointly developed a consolidated chronogram (calendar) of the transition… Read More

Several towns and cities in Ethiopia have held anti-Western rallies today. The rallies are believed to have been organized by local governments in support of the federal government’s latest offensive in the ongoing war in the Tigray region. Local government officials and their supporters, attracted hundreds of thousands of people across the country. One rally goer in the Ethiopian capital… Read More

Malawi on Thursday unearthed four more bodies following the grim discovery of a grave containing the remains of 25 men suspected to be Ethiopian migrants, police said. The latest finds were made at four separate locations some two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the mass grave, bringing the toll so far to 29. The dead are suspected to be migrants heading… Read More

Chad’s military ruler Mahamat Idriss Deby on Friday visited a hospital and a protest-hit district of N’Djamena, his office said, after a day of unprecedented violence that left around 50 people dead in the capital and elsewhere. Tensions eased on Friday after Chad’s ruling junta announced an overnight curfew on Thursday, following fatal clashes eariler in the day between police… Read More

A 21-year-old Frenchman, Thomas Clausi, was convicted Thursday in Morocco of “fraud” and illegal use of cryptocurrency and sentenced to 18 months in prison. He was also slapped with a fine of about 3.4 million euros. Incarcerated since December 23, 2021, Clausi, who presented himself as an entrepreneur before the judge, appeared before the criminal chamber of the court of… Read More

The rebel authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have confirmed their participation in talks scheduled for Monday in South Africa, under the aegis of the African Union (AU), aimed at ending the two-year conflict in the north of the country. “It is the first time that the Ethiopian federal government has taken the lead in the negotiations,” said Kindeya Gebrehiwot, a… Read More