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African nations opened climate talks in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Wednesday to identify their priorities and come up with a common position ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Egypt in November, known as COP27. The meeting is jointly organized by the United Nations, African Union, African Development Bank and the civil society organization, the Pan African Climate… Read More

Ethiopia’s athletics boss on Thursday urged the federal government to ease access to the war-torn region of Tigray, which is home to several medallists from the recently concluded World Athletics Championships. Three of Ethiopia’s four gold medallists and one silver medallist from the championships held in the US city of Eugene earlier this month hail from Tigray, including the women’s… Read More

Kenyans head to the polls on August 9 amid signs that East Africa’s largest economy could be headed for tough times. The country’s currency- the Shilling has sharply depreciated. It means Kenya’s Treasury will face difficulty paying back its huge dollar-denominated debt. The country’s debt rose from $16 billion in 2013 to $71 billion in 2021. As a result, Kenya… Read More

The Senegalese elect their deputies on Sunday in legislative elections that will be a test before the presidential election of February 2024, an election that the opposition wants to use to impose a cohabitation on President Macky Sall and to curb his intentions to seek a third term. President Sall, elected in 2012 for seven years and re-elected in 2019… Read More

Demonstrators face police during a protest against the United Nations peacekeeping force (MONUSCO) deployed in the DRC, in Sake, west of Goma, on July 27.   –   Copyright © africanews Moses Sawasawa/Copyright 2021 The Associated Press Sourced from Africanews Read More

Koutaye Niang has been racing in the Saint-Louis regatta for 20 years, but this year’s competition, held Saturday in Senegal’s historic second city, was the “best day” of his life. Niang – who, like all his teammates, is a fisherman from the coastal city’s Guet N’dar quarter — was the captain of one of three winning pirogues that ended a… Read More

As a familiar campaign jingle brings the Kenyan crowd to their feet, Hellen Atieno joins her compatriots and sways to the catchy tune at a political rally in the lakeside city of Kisumu. Just don’t expect the 23-year-old to vote. “I have only come to the rally because there is money. I hope there will be something,” Atieno told AFP, referring… Read More

Sections of a renowned peatland tropical forest in the Congo Basin that plays a crucial role in Africa’s climate system go up for oil and gas auction in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday. The DRC government will auction 30 oil and gas blocks in the Cuvette-Centrale Peatlands in the Congo Basin forest — the world’s… Read More

Protesters took to the streets for a third consecutive day after at least 15 people were killed and dozens of others injured during the previous two days of demonstrations in Congo’s east against the United Nations mission in the country. The UN said Tuesday one peacekeeper from Morocco and two international policemen from India serving with the UN peacekeeping force… Read More

Macron arrived Wednesday evening in Guinea Bissau for the first official visit of a French head of state to west African. The French head of state was received at the Osvaldo Vieira airport in the Guinean capital by his Guinean counterpart, Umaro Sissoco Embaló . After meeting with the president of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron twice in Europe this… Read More