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Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Christians flocked to churches on their Holy Saturday to celebrate the resurrection of Christ. The Copts in Egypt, a predominantly Muslim country, are one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. As they attended the Holy Saturday Mass, faithful expressed their happiness at being able to mark the beginning of Easter. The holiday comes at the… Read More

“When people talk about terrorism, they don’t talk much about women,” said Apolline Traoré, a director from Burkina Faso, which hosted the latest edition of the continent’s largest film festival. Burkina Faso has suffered grievously from jihadism just like other Sahelian nations including: Mali, Niger and Mauritania. Few movies have been made about jihadism in Africa and even fewer have… Read More

Fighting continues to rage for the second consecutive day Sunday in Khartoum where violent clashes oppose the camps of two generals at the helm of Sudan since their putsch in 2021, leaving 56 civilians dead and 600 injured. The international community, which watched helplessly as the coup d’état took place in October 2021 and has not managed to convince the… Read More

They own less land, earn less money and are more vulnerable to crises: essential to feed the world, women still occupy a “marginal” place in food production, says the FAO, in a rare report on the glaring inequalities of the sector. From the fields to the production lines, they have to “deal with working conditions that are often more difficult… Read More

André Nkoudi is a fisherman who lives in Mangamba, a village on the Cameroon coast. He’s out patrolling the rivers around his village at least once a week. Nkoudi looks for frogs’ nests, tadpoles, frogs caught in the traps of fishermen’s nets or footprints that indicate the presence of poachers hunting the Goliath frog, known officially as Conraua goliath. Nkoudi… Read More

African Air travel has made a robust recovery, nearly reaching pre-pandemic levels, an association of African carriers has said in a new report. The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) said traffic in March reached 94.8 per cent of 2019 levels as more international routes and tourism reopened. It noted that domestic flights accounted for 37 per cent of the March traffic,… Read More

The Sudanese army said Saturday that paramilitaries attacked its bases in Khartoum and elsewhere, shortly after the paramilitary said their camps were attacked by the regular army. “Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces attacked several army camps in Khartoum and elsewhere around Sudan,” army spokesman Brigadier General Nabil Abdallah told AFP. “Clashes are ongoing and the army is carrying out… Read More

A man who escaped from prison in South Africa by faking his own burning death appeared before Bloemfontein Magistrates Court on Friday. Thabo Bester and his girlfriend, celebrity doctor Nandipha Magudumana, had been on the run until their arrest in Tanzania last weekend. Bester will now face added charges of fraud, defeating the ends of justice, escaping, and violating a… Read More

The first operational Kenyan satellite was put into orbit Saturday by a rocket of the company SpaceX which took off from California (United States), according to images of the American space company. The launch, initially scheduled for Monday evening in the United States, had been postponed several times this week due to bad weather conditions. On Saturday, a Falcon-9 rocket… Read More

A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week in what he called a protest against the “police state” ruling the country, his brother said Friday. Nizar Issaoui, 35, suffered third-degree burns from his action in the village of Haffouz in the central region of Kairouan, his brother Ryad told AFP. He was taken from… Read More