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Sudan’s leading general lifted, Sunday, a state of emergency that was imposed in the country following the October coup he led. The country experienced over the weekend yet another day of protest against the military coup. The ruling military authorities in Sudan lifted Sunday the state of emergency imposed since the October military coup and recommended the people detained under an… Read More

**Lawmakers in Bangui voted Friday to abolish the death penalty. For the legislation to become law, President Faustin Archange Touadéra still has to issue it.** Lawmakers in the Central African Republic voted Friday to abolish the death penalty. The law was passed by acclamation as the speaker of the national assembly made the announcement. For the legislation to become law,… Read More

One afternoon in mid-February, Algerian activist Zaki Hannache was arrested in front of his family home. Police confiscated his phone and took him away. Hannache, a prominent activist within Algeria’s pro-democracy Hirak movement, was jailed on a string of charges, including defending terrorist acts. He became one of the hundreds of Algeria’s prisoners of conscience. Hundreds of citizens have been… Read More

Nigeria’s main opposition party on Saturday named former vice president Atiku Abubakar as its candidate for the 2023 election to replace President Muhammadu Buhari. Abubakar, 75, a northern Muslim and stalwart of the People’s Democratic Party or PDP, has made numerous bids to capture the presidency of Africa’s most populous country. He won most ballots from PDP party delegates who… Read More

African heads of state closed the two extraordinary summits in Malabo on Saturday, with leaders pointing out at terrorism, bad governance, and coups d’état could have causal links and aggravate the humanitarian crises that plague the continent. “The current conflict in Europe teaches us that security issues are always at the center of international cooperation, in the first place, each… Read More

Pope Francis, the archbishop of Canterbury and the leader of a the church of Scotland will together lead a prayer vigil for peace while visiting South Sudan next month, the Vatican said Saturday. It released details of the pontiff’s itinerary of his July 2-7 African travels, which he will begin in Congo. Then he travels to South Sudan, where he… Read More

Kenya on Saturday held an impressive air show in its capital Nairobi to showcase a batch of military and civilian aircraft and display the African country’s achievements in aviation and defense build-up. The air show was jointly held by the Kenya Defense Forces and Aero Club of East Africa in Uhuru Gardens, Kenya’s largest Memorial Park seen as the birthplace… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Jewish nationalists gather to celebrate ahead of the “Jerusalem Day” march in Jerusalem. Israel deployed 3,000 police on the day that marks its 1967 capture of east Jerusalem, home of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound located on what Jews revere as the Temple Mount. Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah rally against Israel’s “flag… Read More

US Monastir were crowned champions of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) on Saturday after a 83-72 victory of Petro de Luanda. Fresh from knocking out last year’s champions Zamalek of Egypt, the Tunisian side won their first-ever African title with a victory over the Angolans in the Kigali final. After the game, BAL President Amadou Gallo Fall presented US Monastir… Read More

The decision by the Congo to cut ties with Rwanda has elicited mixed reactions. Kinshasa on Friday halted all RwandAir flights from the country alleging Kigali’s involvement in supporting the M23 rebel group in the eastern parts of the vast nation. Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) later said two soldiers had been kidnapped on patrol and were being held by the… Read More