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A foundation set up by African soccer president and billionaire businessman Patrice Motsepe stepped in Wednesday to resolve a pay dispute between South Africa’s Women’s World Cup players and their national association, ensuring they will get on a plane and head to the tournament in Australia and New Zealand. The dispute caused the entire squad to sit out a game… Read More

The World Health Organization, WHO, described the malaria vaccine as “safe and effective” having led to “a substantial reduction in severe malaria”. Speaking in New York, Director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus, added that the new vaccine also contributed to a fall in child deaths. “As the first vaccine against malaria, the RTS,S vaccine has now been delivered to more than 1.6 million… Read More

Spanish police announced on Tuesday the dismantling of an organization that smuggled more than 200 Syrian or Algerian migrants into Spain from Algeria. “A transnational criminal network, which brought Syrian and Algerian migrants into the EU, has been dismantled. Led from Libya and Spain, it had cells in Sudan, Liberia, and Algeria,” police said in a statement. a statement. Fifteen… Read More

Schools across rural South Africa have perilous and degrading pit latrines — a heritage of the apartheid era that campaigners say symbolises inequality and government ineptitude. Successive governments going back to president Nelson Mandela have promised to eradicate the scourge. The last few years alone have seen President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration promise more than twice to replace open latrines in… Read More

Relief swept Senegal and its supporters on Tuesday after President Macky Sall declared he would not seek a contested third term in office, a move that defused fears of bloodshed. Reactions at home and abroad were almost universally positive after Sall, ending months of feverish speculation, said that after “long consideration” he had decided against contesting next February’s ballot In… Read More

Youths in Tunisia called for vengeance on Tuesday at the funeral of a man stabbed to death during a scuffle between residents and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Three African migrants were arrested as suspects in the stabbing death of the local man in Tunisia’s coastal city of Sfax, a court spokesman said. The North African country’s second-largest city is a… Read More

The former Rwandan gendarme, Philippe Hategekimana, 66, naturalized French under the name of Philippe Manier, sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity in Rwanda will appeal his conviction, we have learned Tuesday from his lawyers. “Philippe Manier is convinced that the trial will, after a fair process, establish his innocence,” said Mes Emmanuel Altit and Alexis Guedj,… Read More

In Tunisia’s coastal city of Sfax, three African migrants have been arrested as suspects following the fatal stabbing of a local man The victim, aged in his early 40s, was stabbed late on Monday during a fight between local residents and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, according to Faouzi Masmoudi, spokesperson for the city’s prosecutor.  Masmoudi said the three suspects were… Read More

Security forces, separatist rebels and ethnic militiamen have committed “atrocities” in a troubled region in Cameroon, including executions, torture and rape, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Its report found new evidence of abuses in the country’s Northwest Region – one of two western regions where anglophone militants declared independence from the majority francophone state in 2017. Their declaration, which has… Read More

Senegalese President Macky Sall has surprised many by deciding not to seek a third term in office. The decision is being greeted as a great relief by many in Dakar, where tensions had been running high prior to Sall’s address to the nation on Monday. Our correspondent Wahany Sambo went on the streets of Dakar and spoke to some residents.… Read More