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These elephants are the stars of the show at this reserve in Limpopo, South Africa. They take a moment to stop at the watering pond for a long, cool drink. But they have some fans eager to meet them – tourists. Handlers instruct the visitors on how to feed these majestic beasts. The human-animal interaction is all the more poignant… Read More

The president of Sierra Leone blamed deadly protests this week on opposition parties, claiming Friday night that his political rivals had attempted to overthrow his government in a “premeditated” insurrection. On Wednesday, a demonstration organised by women to draw attention to inflation and the rising cost of living descended into clashes between security forces and young men demanding President Julius… Read More

Burkina Faso’s army will deploy a new strategy to push back jihadist insurgents and recapture lost territory, the defence minister said Friday. The landlocked Sahel state is in the grip of a seven-year-old insurgency that has claimed more than 2,000 lives and forced some 1.9 million people to leave their homes. Burkina Faso’s insurgency has been concentrated in the north… Read More

Acrid smoke billows from the mountain of waste at the Dandora rubbish dump in Nairobi. Plastic, glass, even medical waste – it’s fresh pickings for the Marabou stalks and the people scavenging through the dump looking for recyclable materials. The women sift through the waste – most with bare hands – for their livelihood. A kilo of recyclable plastic waste… Read More

Guinea will prosecute former prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana over the alleged embezzlement of more than $4 million in public funds intended for economic, political and social programmes, the justice ministry announced on Thursday (August 11). Ibrahima Kassory Fofana is already under investigation for the possible misappropriation of more than 40 million dollars intended for the management of the Covid-19… Read More

As counting continues in Kenya, TV stations have stopped broadcasting estimates of Tuesday’s election results. The day after the polls, Kenyan television stations began broadcasting partial, fluctuating and sometimes contradictory results based on their own counts. The estimates suggested a scenario of a tight race between two of the four presidential candidates: Raila Odinga, who received the support of the… Read More

A ship approached Ukraine on Friday to pick up wheat for hungry people in Ethiopia, in the first food delivery to Africa under a U.N. plan to unblock grain trapped by Russia’s war on Ukraine and bring relief to some of the millions worldwide on the brink of starvation. Closing in on the half-year mark, the war has sent food… Read More

Four police officers were killed Friday while overseeing a protest against insecurity in a major commercial hub, Butembo, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since November, the Congolese and Ugandan armies have been conducting joint operations against the Allied Democratic Forces ADF, but without succeeding in stopping the massacres.  The Butembo area is not affected by… Read More

Mali announced on Friday that it had “settled all outstanding debts” caused by sanctions imposed by West African states after two coups in the country. As a result of ECOWAS sanctions, the West African country was unable to “settle its debt service” between January and July, according to the economy and finance ministry. The announcement on Friday follows the lifting… Read More

Two Real Madrid teammates made the three-man shortlist announced Friday for the UEFA Player of the Year award for last season. The Spanish side was represented by Karim Benzema and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne, who plays with Courtois for Belgium, completed the list after a vote by coaches and selected journalists. Benzema, the main architect… Read More