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The port of Pointe-Noire, the economic and oil capital of Congo-Brazzaville, received on Wednesday its first cruise ship carrying foreign tourists, a sign of the economic diversification sought by the Congolese government. Finnish flag floating in the air, 115 meters of steel carrying 150 tourists of various nationalities, the SH Vega cruise ship was welcomed in the port of the… Read More

A half-brother of Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé, accused of trying to overthrow power in 2009 and detained since then, has been evacuated to Gabon for ” sanitary reasons” , one of his aides told AFP on Wednesday. Considered the mastermind of a failed putsch, Kpatcha Gnassingbé, former Minister of Defense (2005-2007) aged 52, was sentenced in September 2011 to 20… Read More

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Tuesday condemned large-scale doping in Kenya, which has recently faced several cases that “highlight the involvement of people with medical experience,” according to the AIU president. “It is clear that doping in Kenya is becoming increasingly organized and these cases highlight the involvement of people with medical experience,” IAU President David Howman said in… Read More

Three Guinean doctors were found guilty Tuesday of the death of a young woman from rape in a private clinic, in a case that shocked the country, an AFP reporter noted. M’Mah Sylla, a 25-year-old secretary, died in 2021 in Tunisia, where she had been evacuated for treatment after being raped in a hospital in Conakry, the Guinean government announced… Read More

Rights activists on Tuesday accused the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC), where presidential and parliamentary elections are due to be held in August, of disclosing the phone numbers of voters who they said had received “intimidation” messages from the ruling party. According to local NGO Team Pachedu, voters, some of them newly registered, have received personalized text messages in Shona (the… Read More

Dakar is seeking to identify the remains of “about twenty” Senegalese who drowned at the end of March in the sinking of their boat off Tunisia, said an official statement on Monday. A Senegalese mission went to Sfax, the starting point in central-eastern Tunisia of the shipwrecked boat, for a mission to identify the bodies, according to a press release… Read More

Every March, sour orange trees are in full bloom in Nabeul, the Tunisian city known for this fruit which is also called ‘bigarade orange’. Samia Marzoug is busy harvesting the flowers off the trees in her yard. The flowers are sought for their strong and sublime fragrance. In Tunisia, they are widely used in the preparation of meals. “I am… Read More

Investment migration consultancy Henley & Partners has published its annual ranking of African cities with the most wealthy residents in its Africa Wealth Report, in collaboration with New World Wealth. The report provides a comprehensive review of private wealth in Africa, including trends in high-net-worth individuals, luxury and wealth management, as well as expert insights on investing in Africa, the… Read More

The EU Foreign Policy Chief said on Tuesday that the EU and the US were monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement in Ethiopia and will only gradually restore their relations with Addis Ababa. “First of all, in Ethiopia, this was a major crisis and now, fortunately, things start to move toward solving it. That’s one of the rare good… Read More

As part of efforts aimed at improving the Nigeria’s arts and cultural heritage, Nike Arts recently commissioned a new gallery in the city of Abuja. A massive art gallery and one of the best in the country, the founder, Nike Okundaye said art provides therapeutic and decorative value and a good source of investment According to her, Abuja is a… Read More