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Zimbabweans cast ballots on Saturday in parliamentary and local authority by-elections seen as a yardstick of what is to come in next year’s general polls. The polls, which opened at 7:00 am, have generated so much interest that President Emmerson Mnangangwa has led various campaign rallies to shore up support for ruling ZANU-PF candidates. “We need change,” Jasen Maeka, a… Read More

At the break of dawn in Maralal, Samburu County, 340 kilometres north of Nairobi, camels are being loaded with medical equipment in preparation for the day’s mission. Geographic limitations have long hindered efforts by the Kenyan government to provide health services to people in remote areas. To mitigate this, a non-governmental organization known as Communities Health Africa Trust (CHAT) has… Read More

West African leaders on Friday said they would uphold the regional sanctions imposed on Mali in January after its military leaders said they would stay in power for four more years instead of holding an election in February. The regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS made the decision during a summit in Ghana’s capital Accra, where they also discussed the… Read More

Last updated: 2 hours ago Mexican graffiti artists and muralists unveiled their joint work in Mexico City on Friday in support of the victims of the conflict in Ukraine. The six artists, each adding their own designs with their own distinctive style, sought to create a bond with the Ukrainian community and show their support for peace. The six murals… Read More

A court in Angola has sentenced Carlos Manuel de São Vicente, to nine years in jail. De São is accused of embezzlement, tax fraud and money laundering, to a tune of $900 million according to the Novo journal a local newspaper. In it’s rulling, the court asked the Angolan government to confiscate assets belonging to De São. The defense team… Read More

The man accused of setting fire to South Africa’s parliament was back in a Cape Town court Friday. Zandile Mafe faces charges of housebreaking, theft and arson after a January 2nd blaze destroyed the parliamentary complex in Cape Town. Prosecution lawyers told court Friday that facial recognition experts had positively identified Mafe from video footage collected on the day of… Read More

The Liberian judiciary has dropped all charges against Henry Costa, a prominent government critic and has invited him to return to his native West African country from the US. The popular online radio host was also one of the main instigators of protests in January 2020 against President Weah. In October 2019, the Liberian authorities had closed Roots FM, the… Read More

Senegal has announced the “creation of a high-level international panel on investment in water in Africa”. Minister of Water Serigne Mbaye Thiam announced the creation of the panel at the closing ceremony of the 9th World Water Forum in Dakar on Friday. “The objective of the panel is to develop concrete ways to mobilise $30 billion per year until 2030… Read More

Last updated: 2 hours ago Several hundred people accompany the coffin of Yvan Colonna through the streets of Cargèse, Corsica, to the Latin church where his funeral is taking place. The pro-independence activist, a local, was fatally attacked by a fellow inmate in Arles prison, where he was serving his sentence for the 1998 assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac.… Read More

West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS leaders on Friday staged a summit over Mali’s political crisis, three months after slapping tough sanctions on the Sahelian nation. The talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra opened “behind closed doors between heads of state”. Malian Foreign Minister Aboudlaye Diop confirmed the meeting in a tweet. Also in discussions were the situation in Guinea and… Read More