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Best-selling Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga was acquitted on appeal on Monday of charges of “incitement to violence” for silently protesting with a sign in the empty streets of Harare during the 2020 lockdown. The judges of the Court of Appeal ruled against the magistrate who had condemned her in the first instance, specifying that they would make their arguments public… Read More

After an absence that lasted more than a decade, the Arab League has voted unanimously to re-admit Syria into the organization. The decision was announced on Sunday during an emergency Arab League meeting held in Cairo. “Syria, starting this evening, has become a full member of the Arab League. And from tomorrow morning, they have the right to occupy any… Read More

Senegalese opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, said on Monday that he will refuse to cooperate with the judicial authorities if they cannot guarantee his safety. The announcement comes on the eve of Sonko’s appeal in a defamation case. “This is no longer justice, it is judicial banditry. And this is why I have decided, still within the framework of my campaign… Read More

A journalist in the troubled northwest region of Cameroon was shot dead late on Sunday.  According to a statement released by the local journalists union, the victim was the west and northwest region bureau chief for weekly newspaper “The Advocate”. Anye Nde Nsoh was in a pub in Bamenda’s Ntarikon neighbourhood when unidentified assailants opened fire on him. Earlier this… Read More

Hundreds of refugees fleeing ongoing violent unrest in Sudan have crossed the border into Ethiopia. Fighting broke out in Sudan on April 15 between the army and paramilitary forces, and so far at least 700 people have been killed, most of them civilians. “Our safety and life comes first, we can’t be thinking of the things that we have left behind.” says… Read More

Fatouma, Kadidia, Hawa, Adama, Oumou, Bah, Mohammed, Oumar and Elhadji, the nonuplets that two years ago broke the Guinness record of the most living births at once, celebrated on Saturday their birthday for the first time at home in Mali. Relatives, friends and even the paediatrician of the nonuplets attended the celebration. The children chose “Miraculous” as the theme of… Read More

For a few days now, the Senegalese capital has been hosting the Dakar Séries, a pan-African festival that offers a new platform to African film actors.  A golden opportunity for Samba Diop, an executive in a telecommunication company, who came to present his very first series project. “Festivals of this nature allow the different actors in this profession to meet.… Read More

Influential Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu, convicted in London of attempting to remove a young man’s kidney for a transplant to his daughter, will be sentenced on Friday after the first such trial in the UK. The 60-year-old lawmaker, his wife Beatrice, and a doctor who acted as an intermediary were convicted in March of arranging the trip to the UK… Read More

Scientists at the National Agriculture Research Institute in Uganda are hoping to save the environment from plastic waste with their new eco-plastic potting bags. Traditionally, farmers use plastic wrappings to pot seedlings. The plastic wrappers are thrown away at the planting stage which is a danger to the environment. Now Ugandan scientists have made a biodegradable type which goes in… Read More

The Arab League (AL) held an emergency meeting in Cairo this weekend, the third of its kind in three weeks, to discuss the ongoing military clashes in Sudan. Sudan has been suffering deadly armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the capital city of Khartoum and other areas since April 15,… Read More