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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

Last updated: 25 minutes ago President Joe Biden visited U.S. troops stationed near Poland’s border with Ukraine on Friday and was getting a first hand look at the growing humanitarian response to the millions of Ukrainians who are fleeing to Poland to escape Russia’s assault on their homeland. Biden’s first stop was with members of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne… Read More

It is always a relief for residents here at Harare neighbourhood in Zimbabwe when the truck of foodstuff with food items from South Africa. Children rush to unload flour, oil, washing powder by deliverymen who profit from a juicy informal business still fuelled by the recent rise in prices. In Zimbabwe, these essentials are lacking and everything is expensive: food,… Read More

Cameroon vs Algeria It is the big night for the last ten African nations still in the running to play the World Cup in Qatar. The first leg play-offs will be played this Friday across the continent. Cameroon receives Algeria in Douala with a new coach Rigobert Song and a group almost unchanged from its CAN squad which finished the… Read More

The first-ever EU-Angola Business forum took place this Thursday in Brussels with an objective of convincing European investors to bet on Angola’s reforms to support private sector investment and business links. Francisco Franca, the CEO of Angola’s Mota -Engil said, “Angola, today, is a country that is open to international investors, something that was not a few years ago, and… Read More

Sporadic fighting was reported Thursday in Upper Nile state, according to spokesmen for the rival groups. Fresh fighting broke out between rival soldiers in South Sudan, threatening fragile 2018 peace agreement. The spokesman for South Sudanese government troops, Army Maj. Gen. Lul Ruai Koang, charged that rival forces — known officially as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army In Opposition —… Read More

Relatives and collaborators of former Malian Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, who died on 21 March at age 67, meet in Bamako to pay tribute to the late PM. He was laid to rest in the Bozola cemetery on Thursday. To bid farewell to Mali’s former minister Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, a large crowd was gathered at the gates of the… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago About 300 supporters of Ukraine gathered in Brussels on Thursday afternoon as leaders gathered in the city to discuss the war in Ukraine. The demonstrators lay on the ground for a few minutes to represent the bodies of Ukrainians who have died since the war began a month ago. The demonstrators urged EU and NATO… Read More

The party of ousted Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Thursday demanded his “immediate release” saying his house arrest is more like detention. “January 24 – March 24: it’s exactly two months since the military coup d’etat and president Roch Marc Christian Kabore has no longer been free to move,” Alassane Bala Sakande, head of the People’s Movement… Read More