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Ethiopia has expressed interest in resuming talks with Egypt and Sudan on a huge and controversial Blue Nile dam which is expected to be Africa’s largest hydroelectric power plant. Ethiopia’s ambassador to the United States, who once acted as the country’s negotiator on the dam said this during a meeting with the U.S. special envoy to the Horn of Africa,… Read More

Somalia has agreed to lift a ban on air freighting khat from Kenya that had been in place for more than two years, Kenya’s agriculture minister announced Friday. The announcement, which comes a day after Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta visited Mogadishu for the inauguration of Somalia’s new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, marks an easing of relations between the two countries,… Read More

Senegalese President Macky Sall, current chairman of the African Union met with Emmanuel Macron in France on Friday, where he intended to ask him to lift European sanctions against Russia, in particular the exclusion of Russian banks from the Swift system, a key cog in international money transfers, he said. The two leaders shared concerns in Paris on Friday about… Read More

A collective that has led the protest in Guinea against former President Alpha Conde called Friday for demonstrations on June 23, overriding a ban imposed by the junta that took power by force in 2021. The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC) denounced in a statement “the junta’s manifest desire to remain in power forever,” its “refusal”… Read More

The Ngobila Beach market in Kinshasa was calm ahead of a visit of Belgium’s King Philippe, his wife Mathilde and Congo’s first Lady Denise Tshisekedi. It is in a joyous and relaxed atmosphere that the market vendors were getting ready and displaying their loincloths. As the Royal couple and the Congolese first lady toured the market Thursday, the Royals chatted… Read More

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was voted men’s player of the year by his fellow professionals in England for the second time on Thursday. Salah became only the seventh man to win the Professional Footballers’ Association award more than once after a season in which he scored 23 goals in the Premier League – tied for first with Tottenham’s Son Heung-min… Read More

Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune hosted his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro in Algiers Thursday. The South American leader arrived in the North African nation on Wednesday evening, for what Algeria’s state news agency called a two-day “working and friendship visit”. Both countries agreed to reinforce their economic cooperation. Tebboune announced at a joint press statement that direct flights between Algiers and… Read More

Security officers forcibly removed members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party from the South African Parliament. They had heckled President Cyril Ramaphosa during a speech and called him to step down pending a criminal investigation into allegations that he covered up a theft from his rural game farm. Despite Thursday’s exclusion, the MPs are determined to question the president. Babalwa Mathulelwa, Member… Read More

They are exhausted and demoralized, after years of hard work for meager wages in impoverished hospitals: in Zimbabwe, Virginia, Josephine and many other nurses dream only of exile from a dying health system. With her blue nursing uniform still on her back, Virginia Mutsamwira collects the day’s takings in the grocery store she runs in her house near the capital,… Read More

The Congolese army has accused Rwanda of deploying 500 of its soldiers in eastern DRC in support of the M23 rebels. This is the latest accusation described Thursday as “baseless” by Kigali. The new acrimonious exchanges come after about two weeks of renewed tension between the Democratic Republic of Congo and its Rwandan neighbour, clearly accused by Kinshasa of supporting… Read More