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Last updated: 2 hours ago Malians gather in the capital Bamako to celebrate the withdrawal of French troops. They celebrate France’s departure by burning a European flag, with some demonstrators carrying placards with messages such as “Thanks Wagner” and “France is a terrorist nation”. Mali’s army-led government on Friday asked France to withdraw its forces from the Sahel state “without… Read More

Last updated: 2 hours ago The Olympic flame has been extinguished in Beijing, with fireworks filling the evening sky, marking the end of the most locked-down games in history. It was the second pandemic Olympics in the more than two years since the coronavirus first emerged in China. The movements of athletes, media and workers were heavily restricted and everyone… Read More

Ethiopian prime-minister, Abiy Ahmed, described the start of power generation at the controversial Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Sunday as a “milestone”. The dam, built on the Blue Nile, is set to be Africa’s largest hydroelectric project once fully completed in 2024. Only one of 13 turbines is currently operational, with an installed capacity of 375 megawatts. A second turbine… Read More

The Congolese capital, Kinshasa, hosted the first ever Africa School Champions Cup. More than 12,000 young people watched the teams from six African countries participating in the event, an initiative from FIFA, held at the historic Stade des Martyrs. FiFA’s General Secretary explains the idea behind this competition. “The idea is for these children to eventually become role models for… Read More

At least 15 dead and 20 wounded is the result of a suicide attack at a crowded restaurant in the centre of the Somalia on Saturday. According to the authorities, the victims were mostly civilians. Extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. Sourced from Africanews Read More

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the capital fo Burkina Faso to show their support to the military who seized power in January after overthrowing elected president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. Many in the crowd waved Russian flags and held anti-France banners. Since 2015 that Burkina Faso faces a wave of jihadist violence that killed more than 2,000 people. Sourced from… Read More

Peter Utaka is still the talk of the town. The 38-year-old Nigerian striker, who has been exiled to Asia for the past ten years, is having a ball in the land of the rising sun. On Friday, he celebrated his Kyoto club’s return to the Japanese top flight by scoring the only goal of the game against Urawa Red Diamonds… Read More

Last updated: 13 hours ago Almost 800,000 hectares of the province of Corrientes in northwestern Argentina has been devastated by wildfires. According to a report by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) released on Friday, 785,238 hectares of land had been burned due to the blazes, which represents 9% of the province’s area. According to the INTA, the fires… Read More

About 2,000 people demonstrate against illegal migrant workers in Hillbrow, near Cape Town, as part of Operation Dudula. Operation Dudula, Zulu for “drive back”, has gained traction in a sign of growing anti-migrant sentiment in South Africa, which has been plagued by record unemployment figures and poverty worsened by Covid. They turned up in a mob of several hundred at… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago Russia said it launched a massive drill of its strategic nuclear forces on Saturday, amid tensions with Ukraine. It comes as a stark reminder of the country’s nuclear might amid Western fears that Moscow might be preparing to invade Ukraine. The exercises involve multiple practice launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, the Russian… Read More