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The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow on Thursday declared his candidacy for the December 4 presidential poll, with campaigning in the hotly contested election set to begin next week. Thousands of supporters lined the streets in the capital Banjul, as Barrow formally submitted his candidacy to the electoral body in the tiny West African nation. The December 4 election will be… Read More

Thousands of Ethiopians filled a stadium in the capital Addis Ababa to show their support for new military recruits, as the country’s yearlong war escalates quickly. “There is no victory without sacrifice,” Addis Ababa mayor Adanech Abebe said in her address to the crowds. “We are not allowed to get tired at this critical time.” The event came as Ethiopia’s… Read More

ANC party sees big decline in the votes, the party of late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, got less than 50% of ballots cast in local government elections. The African National Congress (ANC) garnered 46.04% of the vote, the electoral commission announced, the worst result for Nelson Mandela’s historic party, which has won every vote by an absolute majority since the… Read More

Many without a birth certificate find it difficult to have access to formal education. These people are therefore at risk of statelessness. This means that no state will recognise them as nationals. And many of them suffer from this situation in Togo as elsewhere in the world. It is therefore impossible for them to exercise their fundamental rights such as… Read More

This week, Business Africa opens the debate on financing the fight against climate change, with its guest Tanguy Gahouma, chairman of the group of African negotiators at the climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow. In return for its efforts to preserve its forests and the consequences of rising carbon levels emitted by major polluters, Africa is asking COP26 to renegotiate the… Read More

An albino activist was sworn in to Malawi’s parliament on Thursday, a first in a country where people with albinism have suffered discrimination and killings. Overstone Kondowe won a by-election last month in central Malawi, a milestone after years of victimisation. “Being the first person with albinism elected in this kind of office, there is high expectation, not only in… Read More

Three civilians were killed in an attack in a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Beni territory by rebels from the Ugandan-born Muslim armed group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the army said on Thursday, claiming to have killed four rebels. The civilians died in the attack which took place on Wednesday night, while the rebels were killed on… Read More

Three civilians were killed in an attack in a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Beni territory by rebels from the Ugandan-born Muslim armed group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), the army said on Thursday, claiming to have killed four rebels. The civilians died in the attack which took place on Wednesday night, while the rebels were killed on… Read More

Former French hostage Sophie Pétronin defended her decision to return to Mali after being accused of being irresponsible by the French government. Speaking to the press on Wednesday, Sophie Pétronin, questioned the comments made by a government spokesman adding that she feels at home in the country. “…It’s a form of irresponsibility towards her own security and that of the… Read More

Former French hostage Sophie Pétronin defended her decision to return to Mali after being accused of being irresponsible by the French government. Speaking to the press on Wednesday, Sophie Pétronin, questioned the comments made by a government spokesman adding that she feels at home in the country. “…It’s a form of irresponsibility towards her own security and that of the… Read More