Tag: Africaglobalvillage

Mali’s government has said it will integrate 26,000 ex-fighters from a northern rebellion group into its army as part of a deal with the former independence movement. The agreement was struck in a meeting on Friday between the two parties and suggest a new energy in the stalled reconciliation deal, signed several years ago. The meeting was chaired by Prime… Read More

Authorities in Uganda have suspended the work of a high profile LGBTQ rights group, calling it an ‘illegal entity.’ Sexual Minorities Uganda has been the nation’s most prominent support group for LGBTQ people since 2004 but its leader, Frank Mugisha, said on Saturday the authorities had told him to suspend activities due to a lack of documentation. He said the… Read More

After Senegalese president, Macky Sall’s, ruling coalition lost its overall majority in last Sunday’s election, people are assessing what it will mean for the country going forward. The president’s Benno Bokk Yakaar coalition won 82 of the National Assembly’s 165 seats. it was a sharp drop from the 125 it won in 2017 and just one seat short of an… Read More

Members of a Malian civil society group, close to the ruling military government, demanded on Friday that the U.N. mission in Mali, “MINUSMA” leaves the country by September 22. At the Culture’s Palace in Bamako, supporters of the anti-French Yerewolo Debout sur les Remparts – or “Yerewolo Standing on the Ramparts” – group pledged to take to the streets if… Read More

Last updated: 12 hours ago The Israeli army said on Friday it had launched air strikes in central Gaza City The strikes come four days after Israel closed its two border crossings with Gaza and restricted the movement of Israeli civilians living near the border, citing security concerns. These measures follow the arrest in the occupied West Bank of two… Read More

Last updated: 12 hours ago Ten people killed in recent protests against the UN mission in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were buried on Friday in Goma after a ceremony of popular tributes. In late July, angry demonstrators had ransacked and looted facilities of the UN Mission for the Stabilisation of the DRC (Monusco), present in the country since… Read More

Ten people killed in recent protests against the UN mission in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were buried in Goma on Friday. A total of 36 people including four peacekeepers have been killed in a week of protests in at least four eastern towns, according to an official report. Last month demonstrators ransacked and looted facilities of the UN Mission… Read More

Ever got locked out of the house or overslept? It is routine for Sam Greenfield, the main character of Apple TV’s latest animated film “Luck”. The 18-year-old girl couldn’t dream of the serendipitous conjunction of circumstances that will transform her life. Jane Fonda believes in luck, but not in a majestic, serendipitous type of way: “Luck is really opportunity. An opportunity can… Read More

Extremist group al-Shabab has taken advantage of Ethiopia’s internal turmoil to cross the border from neighbouring Somalia in unprecedented attacks in recent weeks, according to a senior US military commander. The deadly incursions into Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country and long considered an anchor of security in the Horn of Africa, are the latest sign of the scale of… Read More

The Malian army and “white soldiers” were involved in the deaths of 33 civilians, including 29 Mauritanians and four Malians in Mali according to a report by United Nations experts consulted by AFP on Friday.  The disappearance of these civilians on 5 March in Robinet El Ataye, in the Segou region near the Mauritanian border, had caused a stir in… Read More