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Guinea’s military leader will attend Thursday Mali’s 62nd-anniversary celebrations. Mamadi Doumbouya landed Wednesday in Bamako. He was welcomed by Mali’s military ruler upon arrival.  The “goodwill and working visit” as stated by a Malian communiqué came on the eve of two major events.  Bamako’s 62nd independence anniversary and a high-stakes ECOWAS extraordinary summit on the sidelines of the UN general… Read More

Hundreds of people marched through Ivory Coast economic capital Abidjan Tuesday. It is the latest demonstration in solidarity with 46 soldiers who were arrested in Mali in July. To end the crisis Bamako has suggested a prisoner swap but Abidjan calls it “blackmail“. Members of the CONASU political organization and relatives of the troops insisted they are not mercenaries as… Read More

South Africa’s inflation rate, which hit a record high of 7.8 percent in July, edged down to 7.6 percent in August from a year earlier. This was fuelled by a drop in fuel prices, the country’s statistics agency (StatsSA) said Wednesday. Against a backdrop of record increases in food, transport, and electricity prices, a protest against high living costs and… Read More

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi on Tuesday accused Rwanda of direct aggression, renewing charges as he addressed the United Nations. “Despite my goodwill and the Congolese people’s outstretched hand for peace, some of our neighbors find no way to thank us other than supporting armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Tshisekedi said in… Read More

Did the Ethiopian National Defense force and the Tigray’s people liberation front fighters commit violations amounting to war crimes under international law governing non-international conflicts? Yes, according to a UN report unveiled Monday by the Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.  Ethiopia’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva rejected, Tuesday, the findings of the investigators. “The report itself… Read More

His Toyota Matrix has driven the equivalent of four times around the world and it would never pass an inspection in Europe. But for its delighted new owner, Adam Adebiyi, the ageing hatchback with more than 170,000 kilometres (105,000 miles) on the clock may just as well have rolled off the factory floor. Like millions of other Africans, the Beninese… Read More

Militia members in central Somalia have helped kill scores of al-Shabab militants in an ongoing operation against the Islamic extremist rebels that are receiving air support from the United States, Somali authorities said. Suspected Al-Shabab fighters are being hunted in the Hiran region areas of Yasoman and Aborey, and more than 100 had died as of Sunday, the Ministry of… Read More

A Senegalese appeal court on Wednesday confirmed a prison sentence handed down to the mayor of Dakar, convicted of killing a man during a wave of political violence. In a politically-charged case, the court upheld the six-month prison term and 18-month suspended sentence. The court “confirms the judgement in all its provisions, dismisses the civil party in all its requests”,… Read More

Nigeria is battling its worst floods in a decade after heavy rains across the region. At least 20 people died this week, according to authorities, and more than 300 people were killed in flooding incidents so far this year. The floods have affected half a million people across 27 states, according to the National Emergency Management Agency. Hundreds have been… Read More

Deadly diseases such as measles, tetanus, and whooping cough are on the rise in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. This is a result of vaccination rates plunged during the civil war that broke out nearly two years ago, doctors and regional health officials say in a report by Reuters. The percentage of children in Tigray receiving routine vaccines has fallen below 10%… Read More