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Zimbabwe’s central bank said Monday it was raising its main policy rate to 200 percent, the highest in the world for the southern African country struggling with soaring inflation. The monetary authority said in a statement that it had more than doubled the rate to try to contain inflation, which has been further aggravated by the war in Ukraine, expressing… Read More

Spain’s prime minister is defending the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla, depicting the attempt in which at least 23 people died as “an attack” on Spain’s border. Sánchez, whose left-to-centre government is trying to improve ties with Morocco following an acrimonious… Read More

Oil-rich Libya has been plunged into chaos for the last decade, throughout which public utilities like Tobruk’s desalination plant were largely neglected. It has become a struggle for the residents of the Libyan city of Tobruk to gain access to water with the only sea water desalination plant in need of massive repairs. Bashir al-Qatani, Tobruk resident: “As for drinking… Read More

Embellished with thousands of beads, clothes by Nigerian designer Lisa Folawiyo twinkle under the lights. The prints on these fabrics may echo traditional African designs, but there is a distinctive modern twist. These are on display at the new ‘Africa Fashion’ exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. It retraces clothing from the liberation years of the 1950s and ’60s… Read More

The head of the African Union Commission, Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat, denounced the “violent and degrading treatment of African migrants” on Friday during an attempt to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla. He has called for an investigation into the tragedy, which will be examined on Wednesday by the UN Security Council. “I express my deep emotion and concern at… Read More

An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced to death the murderer of a student who was killed outside her university because she refused his advances, a court source said. The verdict in the case, which has sparked outrage in the country and beyond, was handed down in Mansoura, north of Cairo, just two days after the trial began. The ruling will… Read More

Africans in New York got a taste of home during the first official weekend of summer with a festival that highlighted the continent’s culture. African fashion, food and music were celebrated at the fourth annual African pop-up festival in Brooklyn, New York. The event, a precursor to the African Restaurant Week, usually held in October in New York, saw over… Read More

The father of a Moroccan man facing possible execution by Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine appealled on Monday to Russian President Vladimir Putin to intervene “as a father” to spare his son from the firing squad. “I want my son back, just like any other father would,” Taher Saadoun told reporters in the Moroccan capital Rabat. Saadoun also called on Morocco’s… Read More

A rival ethnic group has killed at least 30 villagers including women and children in western Cameroon in an attack. Some were burnt while others were beheaded. The massacre was carried out on Saturday and Sunday in the village of Bakinjaw in the Akwaya commune, a few kilometres from the Nigerian border, Reverend Fonki Samuel Forba, spokesman for the Presbyterian… Read More

A rival ethnic group has killed at least 30 villagers including women and children in western Cameroon in an attack. Some were burnt while others were beheaded. The massacre was carried out on Saturday and Sunday in the village of Bakinjaw in the Akwaya commune, a few kilometres from the Nigerian border, Reverend Fonki Samuel Forba, spokesman for the Presbyterian… Read More