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A Sudanese protester was killed Thursday as thousands rallied against last year’s military coup and worsening living conditions, medics and an AFP correspondent said. “The military should go back to the barracks”, protesters in the capital Khartoum chanted. “Down with the government of hunger”, they added. A 23-year-old protester was killed after he took “a live bullet to the chest… Read More

South Africa’s judiciary has rejected former President Jacob Zuma’s appeals to further delay his corruption trial due to resume in April, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said Thursday. “The NPA welcomes this ruling and will now work to ensure that the trial resumes on April 11, 2022,” it said in a statement. The 79-year-old former head of state is accused… Read More

Five Chadian, Senegalese, Franco-Ivorian, and Cameroonian employees of NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) were released in Nigeria a month after their kidnapping by gunmen in northern Cameroon. They were kidnapped on the night of February 24-25 in Fotokol, near the Nigerian border, a region where jihadist groups Boko Haram and Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) regularly attack civilians and… Read More

Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia will represent the continent at the next #QWC. Did you know that out of these 5 teams, 4 have local coaches? Cameroon Former star Rigobert Song was chosen last month to head Cameroon’s national football team. He is one of only three African players to have played in four (1994, 1998, 2002 and 2010),… Read More

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied announced Wednesday that he was dissolving the country’s parliament, eight months after suspending it in a July power grab. “Today, at this historic moment, I announce the dissolution of the Assembly of Representatives of the people, to preserve the state and its institutions,” he said. He made the announcement at a meeting of the National Security… Read More

Hundreds of Ethiopians arrived back in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, the first contingent of some 100,000 nationals to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia over the coming months. Around 900 returnees, including many mothers with young children, landed at Addis Ababa International Airport throughout the day, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. “It is estimated that about 750,000 Ethiopians currently… Read More

Congo’s M23 rebel group denies it shot down a United Nations helicopter that crashed in eastern Congo on Tuesday, killing all eight people onboard. Rebel spokesman Will Ngoma on Wednesday accused Congo’s army of firing on the helicopter. Congo’s military had earlier blamed the M23 for the crash of the U.N. helicopter. Eight U.N. peacekeepers were killed in the crash… Read More

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Algeria on Wednesday amid calls for the country to boost gas exports to Europe after prices soared following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Algeria is Africa’s biggest natural gas exporter. The visit is the latest stage of Blinken’s Middle East tour that has already seen him visit Israel, the West Bank and Morocco.… Read More

If the wet season officially begins in May in South Sudan, the country hasn’t completely dealt with the consequences of its 2021 record floods. Angelina Peter, like many climate refugee cannot forget the day she had to flee because of flooding. “Our villages were totally submerged in water. We arrived here with nothing. All our property was washed away. This… Read More

The EAC heads of state approved the Democratic Republic of Congo membership into the community on Tuesday. In Africa’s second largest country however, the move has raised concerned about the profitability and its impact on the Congolese economy. It is now official. The Democratic Republic of Congo became, on Tuesday, the 7th member state of the East African Community. Congelese… Read More