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Tens of thousands of Malians participated on Friday in rallies in the capital, Bamako, ahead of Sunday’s constitutional referendum. The military government led by Assimi Goita supports a Yes vote on the new secular constitution. Opponents of the bill reject a secular state. “Even those who call themselves traditional religions have rights in this country. All we asked for was… Read More

Mali’s interim military junta asked on Friday for the UN peacekeeping mission in the country to leave “without delay“. The peacekeeping force, known as MINUSMA, has been in Mali for a decade. Frustrations over the growing insecurity led to two coups in 2020 and 2021.  The ruling junta, led by Colonel Assimi Goita, has been increasingly at loggerheads with MINUSMA… Read More

Militants linked to the Islamic State group massacred at least 37 people and abducted six others in western Uganda, the army said Saturday, in the country’s worst such attack in years. The military said it was pursuing the attackers from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) after they raided a school late Friday near the border of the Democratic Republic of… Read More

After traveling to Ukraine on Friday, a delegation of African leaders arrived in Russia on Saturday on a self-styled peace mission. Seven African leaders, including the presidents of Comoros, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia, as well as Egypt’s prime minister and top envoys from the Republic of Congo and Uganda – travelled to St. Petersburg to meet with Russia’s President… Read More

A delegation of African leaders visited Ukraine on Friday.  The group of seven leaders includes South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa and Senegal’s president, Macky Sall. Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, appealed to the African leaders to ask Russia to liberate political prisoners in Crimea. “And if there is nothing I can do in principle to influence my colleagues’ choice to go… Read More

The family of one of the victims of the protests earlier this month in Senegal wants justice. Their son, Kadhim Ba, was killed on the same day political opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was convicted of “corrupting youth” and given a two-year prison sentence. “I went to the dispensary (hospital) and found him on a stretcher. I arrived there; he was… Read More

Distance runner Faith Kipyegon was given $35,000 and a house by Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday (June 13) as a reward for breaking two world records in the space of a week. Kipyegon, who met with Ruto at the president’s office, said she would now fulfill a promise she had made to buy her father a new car. The… Read More

Residents of South Darfur capital, Nyala, have denounced the killing of West Darfur state’s governor on Wednesday. Governor Khamis Abdullah Abakar was killed hours after he made critical remarks of the paramilitaries in a telephone interview with a Saudi TV channel. “We condemn and denounce what happened in the West Darfur state and its capital El Geneina city. This region… Read More

Nigerians on Thursday reflected on the recent move by the country’s president to stabilise the economy through allowing market forces to set the currency exchange rate. Nigeria’s central bank has ended its distorted foreign exchange rate, a move the new government in Africa’s biggest economy hopes will help woo investors and stabilise the local currency. The announcement Wednesday from the… Read More

Members of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security team who were due to accompany him on his mediation mission to Ukraine on Friday were detained in Poland, according to officials from both countries, provoking a diplomatic incident. Mr. Ramaphosa’s head of security, General Wally Rhoode, accused the Polish authorities of being “racist” and of “endangering” the life of its president,… Read More