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Hard-working like the ants they’re named after, Angola’s Formigas do Cazenga are a basketball team and school preparing inner-city kids in Luanda for a better life. One of their star players, Sara Caetano, has gone on to the Tony Parker Adéquat Academy in Lyon, France. Parker, a veteran NBA star, says he aims to find more players like Sara in… Read More

Nigerian religious leaders on Thursday called for calm and justice after a Christian student was stoned to death in northwestern Nigeria on charges of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed. The killing of the student took place in Sokoto State where Sharia law is in force alongside ordinary law, as in other states in Nigeria’s conservative Muslim north. Dozens of students… Read More

French photojournalist Camille Lepage, 26, was killed while covering the deteriorating situation in the Central African Republic Monday May 12, 2014. 8 years after the death of French journalist Camille Lepage, NGO Reporters without borders denounced on Wednesday investigations that made no headway. The Central African Republic and France opened investigations following the killing in a shoot-out between rival militia… Read More

Mali’s army chief ended a three-day visit to Rwanda Thursday as the countries seek to stregthen bilateral defense cooperation. Malian General Oumar Diarra concluded Thursday a three-day visit to Rwanda. The Chief of the General Staff of the Malian Armed forces, was received by his counterpart Gen Jean Bosco Kazura at the Rwanda Defense Forces Headquarters in Kigali. If bilateral… Read More

Five Egyptian soldiers and seven jihadists were killed at dawn Wednesday in a new attack in the Sinai region (east) plagued by a jihadist insurgency, the Egyptian army reported. “A military officer and four soldiers were killed and two other soldiers were wounded,” the spokesman for the armed forces said in a statement. This is the second such attack in… Read More

Madrid and Rabat will on May 17 reopen the border posts between northern Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which have been closed for more than two years, the Spanish Interior Minister announced on Thursday. “There is an agreement between (…) the governments of Spain and Morocco that the borders of Ceuta and Melilla, the land borders,… Read More

Sudanese demonstrators are back on the streets to protest against the military in power and ask for the implementation of a civil government. Large crowds could be seen around the presidential palace in Khartoum responding to calls from several dissident groups on May 12. This is the most important turnout since the holy month of Ramadan. “All we are asking now is… Read More

Cocoa has been Ghana’s main commercial crop for several decades. And although the West African country is the second largest cocoa producer and exporter in the world, some are still looking into different ways to exploit it. Such as Dr Harrison Adjimah who uses cocoa and other local raw materials in his wines. The senior lecturer conducts an entrepreneurship programme to encourage… Read More

Over the last two decades, China has established itself as Africa’s largest bilateral lender, helping bankroll key infrastructure projects on the continent. But a new report by the Boston University’s GDP centre suggests Chinese credit to Africa may be drying up or at least slowing down. In 2020, Beijing signed 11 new loan commitments worth $1.9 billion with African governments,… Read More

As a the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is taking place in Abidjan, many reports from the international organization are pointing out the devastating impacts of drought on the African population. A critic weather condition hitting hard 40 percent of Somalis currently facing extreme levels of food insecurity.  Farmers in north Somalia say they… Read More