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Thousands of Tunisians rallied in the capital Sunday, the country’s independence day, to protest against President Kais Saied and consultations over constitutional reforms proposed by him. Protesters shouted “the people want to overthrow the president” and “no to consultations”, according to AFP reporters. The demonstration was organised by the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party and a movement named “Citizens Against the Coup”.… Read More

Some 300 harkis and their descendants gathered in front of the Rivesaltes camp memorial in the Pyrénées-Orientales region to ask the State to restore their honour, beyond the “pardon” law, which was compared to “crumbs”. In order to turn the page without tearing it apart, “we ask politicians for a law of reparation commensurate with our suffering, for all”, says… Read More

A remote oasis in Tunisia’s desert was exhausted by decades of wasteful water use for agriculture — but now pioneers around an eco-lodge are reviving the spot with innovative projects. They hope their back-to-basics approach can keep alive the ancient Saharan caravan stop and its traditions as a sustainable alternative to the region’s high-irrigation date plantations. “Among the palm trees,… Read More

Their mascot is named “Little Defeat”. Their fans “protest” when they win. But after a notorious losing streak that earned them the nickname “the world’s worst football team”, Brazilian minnows Ibis are ready for victory. Based in the city of Paulista in northeastern Brazil, Ibis Sport Club rose to infamy in the 1980s for going three years, 11 months and… Read More

The ninth edition of La Francophonie games, initially scheduled for 2022 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), will be held in the summer of 2023 in Kinshasa, the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) has announced. The DRC, designated in 2019, was supposed to organize the Games in 2021. But the Covid-19 pandemic led to a postponement to 2022,… Read More

An estimated 6,000 people have taken refuge in the Gambia after fleeing the violence in the past week between the army and rebels in Casamance, in the south of neighboring Senegal, the Gambian authorities announced on Saturday 19 March. The Senegalese army announced that it had launched an operation on March 13 against rebels in Casamance, a region separated from… Read More

The Congolese Ministry of Primary Education has been accused of having embezzled nearly 400,000 dollars allocated to the organization of the first African school football championship in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DR Congo’s General Inspectorate of Finance on Saturday issued the accusations indicating that out of a million dollars allocated by the government, the ministry failed to account… Read More

Egypt on Saturday displayed a series of recently discovered, finely decorated ancient tombs at a Pharaonic necropolis just outside the capital Cairo. The five tombs, unearthed earlier this month, date back to the Old Kingdom (1570 B.C. and 1069 B.C.) and the First Intermediate Period that spanned more than a century after the collapse of the old kingdom, according to… Read More

The Polisario Front independence movement has accused Spain of making a “grave error” after it changed its position and backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara. Morocco sees the Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, with rich phosphate resources and access to lucrative Atlantic fishing waters, as an integral part of its territory. The Algeria-backed Polisario separatists took… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Rescue workers remove a survivor from rubble after dozens were killed when Russian troops struck a Ukrainian military barracks in the southern city of Mykolayiv. A military spokeswoman has said the final toll is still unknown, as rescuers and soldiers are still pulling out bodies as well as survivors. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More