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Deputy President William Ruto is campaigning in earnest less than a month before Kenya’s general elections. On Thursday, Ruto took his ‘Bottom Up’ message to Kiambu, a town near the capital Nairobi. Addressing a rally there, the head of the Kenya Kwanza coalition said he had no problem with his estranged ally President Uhuru Kenyatta. “I am not vying against… Read More

A few cars and signs celebrating the Algerian-Tunisian friendship: the reopening of the land border between the two countries after more than two years of closure is taking place Friday in a fluid way near Tabarka, according to journalists of the AFP Tunisian side. The Tunisian authorities expect more than one million Algerian visitors this summer, including a majority of… Read More

The United Nations mission in Mali says that Egypt will withdraw its troops from the West African county by mid-August citing deadly attacks against its peacekeepers. Seven Egyptian peacekeepers have been killed in Mali so far this year, according to officials. Olivier Salgado, the spokesman of the U.N. mission in Mali, on Friday confirmed that Egypt will suspend its activities… Read More

Discussions between Chad and the International Monetary Fund have made progress. That’s what the IMF spokesperson, Gerry Rice, told a news briefing Thursday. The Sahelian country seeks to access the G20’s common framework. But to benefit from the initiative which supports low Income Countries with unsustainable debt, Chad needs a debt agreement among creditors. “We need financing assurances, and we need… Read More

It is a triumphant comeback home for Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the first African woman to reach a Grand Slam singles final. She was accompanied by her husband and her trainer at the presidential palace in Carthage, Thursday. There, she was awarded the country’s Great Medal of the National Order of Merit. President Kaies Saied hailed the tennis trailblazer for wearing… Read More

At the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, students are learning how to style curly and Afro-textured hair. It’s a new hairdressing course, aimed at reducing the lack of hairdressers able to competently style curly hair. “Now I feel confident if someone were to sit in my chair, a person of color, a person with curly hair. I’m… Read More

The Economic Community of West African States’ court has declared as “illegal” the seven-month suspension of Twitter by Nigerian authourities last year. The decision follows a complaint by citizens and human rights organisations in Nigeria against the state, filed in July 2021, a month after the ban on the US social network began in Africa’s most populous country. After the… Read More

In this new episode of Business Africa, what will happen to the iron ore from Mount Simandou, a project that has been halted halfway through and should eventually enable Guinea to double its gross domestic product? In Guinea, Mount Simandou is said to contain the world’s largest undeveloped iron ore deposit, except that work on the mine has been plagued… Read More

A reprieve from an expected fuel price increase for Kenyans. Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday rolled out a fresh round of fuel subsidies in a bid to prevent a rise in prices at the pump. The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (Epra) was expected to further raise fuel prices to a new record high after the Treasury announced that it… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago A car drives through a wildfire in central Portugal, where over 2,000 firefighters were battling four major fires across the country on Thursday morning. Portugal has been on alert for wildfires for days, bringing back memories of the devastating fires in 2017, which claimed the lives of more than 100 people. More about Sourced from… Read More