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The appeal trial for defamation against Senegalese opponent Ousmane Sonko has been postponed to May 8th, a Dakar court announced Monday (Apr. 17). The hearing was initially set to take place on April 17th. Sonko’s previous summons and court appearances have provoked civil unrest. His supporters accusing the ruling party of instrumentalizing justice to make Sonko ineligible to contest in… Read More

Sudan’s embattled capital awoke Monday (Apr. 17) to a third day of heavy fighting between the army and a powerful rival force known as the Rapid Support Force (RSF). Both entities aiming to seize control of the country. The power struggle between two generals has led to the death of many and left thousands panicked. Engineer Ahmed recounts: “I was asleep.… Read More

Tensions have been brewing for weeks between Sudan’s two most powerful generals, who just 18 months earlier jointly orchestrated a military coup to derail the nation’s transition to democracy. Over the weekend, those tensions between the armed forces chief, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, erupted into an unprecedented… Read More

Three political parties in Congo-Brazzaville launched an “alliance for democratic change in 2026” on Thursday, as President Denis Sassou Nguesso, who has been in power for almost 40 years, is a potential candidate in the next election. This new opposition platform includes the Rally for Democracy and Development (RDD) of former president Jacques Joachim Yhomby Opango, who died in 2020… Read More

Those anticipating the launch of Kenya’s first operational earth observation satellite will have to wait a bit longer. Satellite Taifa-1 was supposed take off from California USA on Friday (Apr. 14) but exploration technology company Space X, cancelled the exercise nearly 28 seconds into flight. The launch is scheduled on Saturday (Apr. 15). Friday’s cancellation marked the third failed attempt… Read More

South Africa has managed to attract new investment commitments from investors worth about 84 billion US dollars over the next five years. President Cyril Ramaphosa met with investors as part of the fifth South Africa Investment Conference. The Chief Executive Officer of the South African Breweries, Richard Rivett-Carnac explains that their investment pledge is expected to create forty thousand jobs… Read More

Police in coastal Kenya found 15 emaciated parishioners on the property of a church pastor, and four of the people died after the group was rescued and taken to a hospital, authorities said. Police officials said investigators received a tip that dozens of people were starving to death after their pastor told them it was a way to meet Jesus.… Read More

A self-portrait shows Nothando Chiwanga covering her face with a yellow miner’s helmet while money spills over the edge of the traditional African reed basket she holds in her lap. The artwork is called “Immortal” and juxtaposing a helmet from an overtly male-dominated job with a delicately woven basket commonly used by women at markets challenges age-old gender roles in… Read More

The chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, will travel “immediately” to Sudan “to engage the parties towards a ceasefire”, announced Sunday the pan-African organization, on the second day of violent clashes in the country. Expressing its “deep concern” about the situation, the AU also called on the forces of the two generals in charge of Sudan… Read More

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame met Saturday with his Benin counterpart Patrice Talon, promising military support to help the country contain spillover from jihadist conflict across its northern border with Burkina Faso. West Africa coastal nations Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast are preparing for a potential spillover as Burkina Faso struggles to contain an Islamist militant insurgency gaining ground just… Read More