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Last updated: 2 hours ago Vietnamese people are making their preparations for the Lunar New Year of the Tiger, the most festive event of the year, amid warnings of caution against COVID-19. In the old quarter of Hanoi, shoppers headed to the traditional market to look for decorations and flowers for the festival, which is called “Tet” in Vietnam. The… Read More

It is the end of a trial that started in 2017 in DRC. On Saturday, the Kananga military court (central Kasaï) gave its verdict in a trial over the murder of two UN experts. A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced 51 people to death on Saturday, several in absentia, as well as a 10-year prison term… Read More

Burkinabe and Cameroonian football lovers were overjoyed by their countries’ qualification, on Saturday, January 29, for the AFCON semi-finals. Joy is truly contagious. If Burkinabe players were overjoyed, back home, the happiness is the same. Hundreds of Burkinabe gathered to cheer on their team together. On Saturday, January 29, the Stallions of Burkina played Tunisia for the quarter-finals. Their one-nil… Read More

One week after the military takeover that ousted president Kabore in Burkina, time for talks has come. An ECOWAS military delegation will stay in Ouagadougou until Sunday followed a few days later by ministerial envoys. A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) arrived in Ouagadougou on Saturday morning. The group of military official is composed of… Read More

Members of the national coordination of families of Moroccans detained and stranded in Syria and Iraq, held a demonstration to demand their repatriation, in front of the Moroccan Parliament in Rabat. Most of those stranded are accused of traveling to join the Islamic State (IS) group. The family members are now calling for the Moroccan government to help in their… Read More

West African leaders met virtually on Friday to discuss the military takeover in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso was on Friday suspended from a bloc of West African neighbour states in the aftermath of this week’s coup, making it the third nation in the regional alliance to be punished for a military takeover in only 18 months. The announcement from the… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago Thousands of women took the streets of the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo on Friday, to protest against a rape case that has shocked the country. In the incident, which occurred on Sunday, a woman left a club with a man and accompanied him to his apartment. While they were having sexual intercourse, at least two… Read More

In Kinshasa’s zoological garden it is time for a much needed makeover. Eight decades after it first opened, Congolese authorities have promised to renovate the site where families and pupils come. A dozen monkeys, crocodiles or two bulls: at the Kinshasa zoological garden, the few visitors express their disappointment at the absence of emblematic species in this attraction site in… Read More

Liverpool striker Sadio Mane has been cleared to play in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against Equatorial Guinea. The Senegalese collided with Cape Verdean goalkeeper during the round of 16-game. If he stayed on the pitch and scored the fixture’s opening goal, he eventually headed out looking a bit groggy. “Sadio is fine, he resumed training on Friday, Aliou… Read More

Last updated: 3 hours ago A Peruvian judge on Friday banned Repsol’s Peru director and three other executives from leaving the country for 18 months while the government investigates an oil spill at a refinery run by the Spain-based company. Peru authorities are investigating Repsol following the oil spill on Jan. 15, which was reported after surging waves caused by… Read More