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Sudan’s ruling military general, who mounted a coup nearly a year ago, said he will not run in future elections for a civilian-led government. Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan spoke with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday. It marked nearly one year after he mounted a coup that upended the Arabic-speaking African nation’s short-lived transition… Read More

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Three more Ebola patients have died in Uganda, the health ministry said on Friday, bringing the total death toll to four. This comes days after authorities confirmed an outbreak. “In the last 24 hours, three new deaths have been recorded,” the health ministry said in a statement. Uganda’s health ministry has so far confirmed 11 cases of Ebola in total,… Read More

The protestors waved Malian flags and chanted anti-UN slogans. Others carried Russian flags as they marched through the streets of the capital. Mali’s army government has had a frosty relationship with the UN mission also known as MINUSMA, culminating in July in the detention of Ivorian soldiers after branding them mercenaries. “MINUSMA has done nothing here. We want them to… Read More

Precious continues, as if nothing had happened, to iron the clothes of the children of the white South African couple for whom she has been tidying and cleaning for years, undeclared: earlier, on her way to work, this undocumented Zimbabwean was stopped by the police. In South Africa, a large part of the middle and upper classes still employ, 30… Read More

For years, students in a South African township have seen their parents struggle to use trains for daily commutes, the railways frequently hobbled by power outages and cable thefts. To respond to the crisis, a group of 20 teenagers invented South Africa’s first fully solar-powered train. Photovoltaic panels fitted to the roof, the angular blue-and-white test train moves on an… Read More

The centre-left coalition in Sao Tome and Principe will run for parliament on Sunday in disarray and could give up its fragile majority to the centre-right in this small, Portuguese-speaking archipelago, which is used to alternating elections and considered a model of parliamentary democracy in Africa. Some 100,000 voters out of a population of 215,000 are called upon to renew… Read More

Two years after he was shot in the leg during a peaceful protest in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos, Samuel Ashola is waiting for the time to express himself at the ballot box, like many other angry youths. “I have blood boiling,” says the 30-year-old unemployed artist, as the campaign for the February 2023 presidential election begins this month…” “…I come… Read More

As Malian authorities held a traditional military parade on Thursday to mark the country’s independence day in the presence of the head of Guinea´s military junta, Col Mamady Doumbouya,  West African leaders were in a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. They agreed at the emergency summit to impose gradual sanctions on Guinea’s junta… Read More

During the UN General Assembly, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, president of Guinea-Bissau and ECOWAS acting chair, seized the opportunity to draw the attention of world leaders to the evolution of “terrorism, violent extremism and transnational crime” in the Sahel regions. “The stability of a large part of our continent in general, and of West Africa in particular, is threatened by insecurity… Read More