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After a seven-year hiatus, passenger service has finally resumed on the main line of the Congo-Ocean Railway (CFCO) linking Pointe-Noire and Brazzaville. One train per week has been connecting Congo’s two largest cities since April 27. A convenient means of transport for passengers like Sage Mayetela. “I am at the central station of Brazzaville because I am waiting for a… Read More

Gunmen attacked a U.S. convoy in southeastern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing four non-Americans and kidnapping three others, official sources said. “No U.S. citizens were in the convoy,” said Nigerian police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu, who was confirmed by White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. The gunmen “killed two police mobile force officers and two U.S. consulate employees” before setting… Read More

Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou of Cameroon signed up Tuesday with the PFL, a rival American organization, allowing him, according to the league, to fight in English boxing, as he wanted, and in mixed martial arts, his favorite discipline. Four months ago, Ngannou, 36, then a heavyweight belt holder, stormed out of the UFC, MMA’s most powerful league, amid… Read More

For several years, one woman in a commune in Pointe Noire had been suffering from a rare form of eye or occular pathology. Due to a lack of funds, she was never able to receive adequate treatment, until she came across NeedAct, a digital solidarity app created in the Republic of Congo. “I discovered Need Act on social networks. I… Read More

At least three people died in Senegal during protests supporting opposition leader Ousmane Sonko before he was supposed to attend a since postponed rape trial in a court in Dakar on Tuesday. The judge of the criminal chamber of the Dakar high court postponed Sonko’s trial to give lawyers for key witnesses time to go over the court files. The… Read More

The death toll from the “Shakahola massacre” in a forest in southeastern Kenya, where a sect whose leader advocated fasting to “meet Jesus” was meeting, has now risen to 201 after the discovery of 22 new bodies on Saturday, the region’s prefect announced. Police believe that most of the bodies discovered near the coastal town of Malindi are those of… Read More

Namibia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday recognised same-sex marriages contracted abroad between citizens and foreign spouses, a landmark ruling in a country where homosexuality is illegal. The decision overturns a ruling reached last year by the High Court, which refused to accept same-sex marriages concluded outside Namibia. Two Namibian nationals had sought recourse from the courts after the ministry of home… Read More

South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced on Tuesday that six African leaders are planning to travel to Ukraine and Russia to help find a solution to the war. Ramaphosa added that Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy had agreed to receive the African peace mission in their respective capitals. “The two leaders that I had occasion to speak… Read More

Italy’s Interior minister Matteo Piantedosi praised Tunisia’s efforts against irregular migration. The comments by the Italian minister follow Monday’s visit to the North African country. The Italian official met with his Tunisian counterpart and also had a meeting with Tunisian President Kais Saied. The leaders discussed the situation in the Mediterranean where crossings have intensified since Saied made a fiery… Read More

Floodwaters in central Somali left thousands of families displaced in Beledweyne, the city with the highest population density in the region. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported the Horn of Africa nation to have “more than 460,000 people have been affected, including nearly 219,000 people who have been displaced”, in early estimates. Rising water level in… Read More