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Last updated: 13 hours ago Volunteers in the Ukrainian city of Lviv have been setting up defences and shelters fearing Russian forces may advance sooner or later to the western part of the country. Thursday, at one of the city’s parks, civilians spent the day digging to clean and expand an underground shelter that could fit about as many as… Read More

Freeman Mbowe, released from prison on Friday after controversial terrorism charges against him were dropped, was one of the founders 30 years ago of the Tanzanian opposition party Chadema, which has become an outspoken figure of protest in his country. His parents had him baptized in December 1961, just after the independence of the former East African British colony of… Read More

Tanzanian opposition leader, Freeman Mbowe was a free man on Friday after prosecutors dropped terrorism charges against him, ending a case that his supporters had branded a government bid to crush dissent. Mbowe, who is the chairman of the Chadema party, was detained last July in the lakeside town of Mwanza where he was due to attend a conference on… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago Love triumphed over war Friday for a Ukrainian couple in the capital Kyiv. Dmytro Shybalov and Anna Panasiuk set aside their worries over Russia’s invasion and got married at the city’s civil registration office. They met seven years ago in Donetsk, in the middle of the conflict between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces. Less… Read More

Goree Island, a symbol of the Atlantic slave trade off the coast of Dakar, is seeing plastic waste accumulate on its fragile environment, despite the precautions taken by the municipality. “Every day we are confronted with the same behaviour, people throw plastic waste on the island and yet there are two rubbish bins in front of each house”. Abdoulaye Mbaye,… Read More

Police in Malawi have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of protestors that marched on the streets of the capital, Lilongwe, against corruption in government. The demonstrators were led by a group called Citizens Against Impunity and Corruption. The march was initially planned for March 2nd but the permission was later withdrawn by the district council. The protestors pelted the… Read More

Burkina Faso’s transitional president, Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, on Thursday appointed 53-year-old Albert Ouédraogo as prime minister. “The transitional president (…) decrees: Mr Albert Ouédraogo is appointed Prime Minister,” said the decree signed by Lieutenant Colonel Damiba, a copy of which was sent to AFP. Albert Ouédraogo, an academic, is the head of a consulting and auditing firm since 2007.… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has cut short his planned trip to the UK and returned to Abuja after the United Nations event in Kenya. Bashir Ahmad, the president’s personal assistant, disclosed this in a tweeter post on Friday. The President, Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after a three-day visit to Nairobi, the Kenyan capital where he participated in the 50th… Read More

The Mauritanian football federation on Wednesday announced Amir Abdou, who is the former Comoros head coach, as the new manager of its national men’s football team. Amir takes over from the now-former Frenchman Didier Gomes Da Rosa who has been linked to the poor results of the Mauritanian team. “Following consultations and exchanges with the highest authorities of the State,… Read More

About 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may be destroyed by the end of this month (March). This is due to the dwindling interest in patronage on the part of citizens, South African health authorities said on Friday. South Africa has recorded the most coronavirus infections and deaths on the African continent, however, immunizations have slowed and the country has… Read More