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Workers in Nigeria rallied Monday (May. 1st) like fellow counterparts across the world to mark International Workers’ Day. In Lagos, large crowds gathered at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena. This year’s celebration takes place against the backdrop of cost of living crisis. As Nigeria’s leader Muhammadu Buhari prepares to handover the baton of government to president elect Bola Tinubu, a unionist… Read More

As the conflict in Sudan enters its third week the World Health Organisation‘s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean alerted for the consequences of the conflict in the healthcare facilities in the country.  “In numbers, approximately 61 percent of the medical institutes in Khartoum stopped working because to the direct military attacks, military occupation for those institutes and firing their… Read More

Convening in Cairo, Egypt, Arab League permanent members held Monday (May 1st) an emergency meeting on the fighting in Sudan. Egypt’s deputy permanent representative outlined a draft resolution to halt fighting in the neighbouring country. “Egypt calls (within the draft resolution) for an immediate and comprehensive cessation of conflict, and for all (conflicting) parties to initiate their efforts to give… Read More

The German parliament has given the green light to the deployment of troops to Niger. Sixty German soldiers will join a small EU mission set up last December with the aim of helping the country improve its logistics and infrastructure. The decision by parliament in Berlin reinforces the continued commitment to a German presence in the Sahel region despite the… Read More

Sudan’s former prime minister Abdalla Hamdok has issued red flag over the ongoing violence in his country warning the clashes could deteriorate into one of the worst civil wars than those experience in Syria and Libya if the fighting is not stopped. The former premier is now calling for a truce between the warring generals from both the Sudanese army… Read More

A Moroccan diplomatic source said Friday that two Moroccan cyclists have been missing for several days on the border between Burkina Faso and Niger. The two men, Abderrahmane Serhani (65) and Driss Fatihi (37), have not been heard from since they entered Burkina Faso from Côte d’Ivoire and headed across the border to Niger, the source said. They had left… Read More

Mali and its neighbor Algeria on Thursday (Apr. 27) said they wished to revive a 2015 peace deal between Bamako and northern Malian rebels that is more fragile than ever and raises fears of renewed violence. In a joint statement on Thursday, Mali and Algeria said they wanted to relaunch the deal knon as the Algiers Accords. “We have carried… Read More

Return of censorship or not in Tunisia? Saturday at the International Book Fair in Tunis, opinions diverge in the aftermath of the withdrawal of an essay criticizing the president Kais Saied and the closure of the stand of his publishing house. The publisher of the book “The Tunisian Frankenstein”, illustrated by a caricature of Mr. Saied, has reopened its stand… Read More

More than a thousand people gathered Saturday morning in Mamoudzou to renew their support for the security operation “Wuambushu” conducted by the authorities on the island of Mayotte and demand a halt to crime and illegal immigration. “The citizen mobilization is important, it supports the action of elected officials who called this operation to claim our security and our freedom,”… Read More

Following an anxious wait for their families in the arrivals hall of Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport, more than fifty South African citizens return home after being evacuated from Sudan following clashes between two rival generals. A ministerial delegation headed by South Africa’s international relations minister Naledi Pandor is there to greet them. “It was traumatic… it feels good to be… Read More