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Algeria and Cameroon will face each other at the end of March in a two-legged play-off for one of five places reserved for Africa in the World Cup in Qatar. The defending African champions, Algeria, have just been eliminated from AFCON after a disastrous first round. Algeria’s FA president has high hopes for this match. “When you play the second… Read More

At least 17 people were killed when a fire set off explosions at a popular nightclub in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, officials said on Sunday. A government statement said the fire erupted at the Livs Nightclub in the Bastos neighbourhood. It added that in addition to the deaths, some people were injured and taken to the hospital. Workers said it was… Read More

The head of Guinea’s military junta, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, named on Saturday the members of the National Transitional Council, NTC. The 81-member legislative body will decide when civilians will return to power. Civil society activist, doctor Kanso Kourouma, was appointed president of the NTC. The members of the NTC represent all the country’s socio-professional organisations as well as political parties.… Read More

In Burkina Faso, soldiers staged a revolt in several army bases to demand the departure of army chiefs and better means to fight extremists. The army uprising is the latest threat to president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré in the face of jihadist violence that struck the country in 2015. On the streets, many reclaim the need for change at the… Read More

Last updated: 4 hours ago At Miramar Beach in Peru’s popular resort of Ancon, there are no bathers despite the summer heat. Instead, it teems with workers in coveralls cleaning up an oil spill. Almost a million liters (264,000 gallons) of crude spilled into the sea on Saturday when a tanker was hit by waves while offloading at La Pampilla… Read More

Last updated: 4 hours ago Thousands of mourners packed a pagoda in Vietnam’s Buddhist heartland on Sunday to pay tribute to the late Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, credited with bringing mindfulness to the West. The Zen master, whose reach within Buddhism was seen as second only to the Dalai Lama, died aged 95 on Saturday at… Read More

The minister of defence in Burkina Faso has spoken on national television to reassure the population that no institutions had been targeted after shots were heard in several army barracks. “So for the moment, as I said, we are monitoring the situation and the government will communicate in due course on the evolution of the situation”. (…) “At the moment… Read More

Voters in Senegal went to the polls on Sunday to elect local representatives in what many see as a test for President Macky Sall and the opposition. It’s the first election in the country since last year’s deadly riots after opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, was arrested. For many, voting in local elections is about solving local issues. “It was very… Read More

A court in South Africa has heard a bid by indigenious people seeking to halt the construction of Amazon’s African Head Office on a sacred site outside Cape Town. Speaking in representation of the developers, a lawyer said that Amazon would drop the project already under construction if the delay was granted. The project is being built on land that… Read More

A touring exhibition dedicated to American rapper and actor Tupac Shakur opened this Friday in Los Angeles. The exhibition “Wake Me When I’m Free” explores the life and legacy of the artist considered to be amongst the most prolific in hip-hop of his generation. Tupac Shakur died in 1996 at the age of 25 years old. “We really wanted to… Read More