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Former Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Umaro Cissoko Embalo has been elected president after winning a run-off vote against another ex-prime minister. The 47-year-old beat rival Domingos Simoes Pereira by about 54% to 46%, according to the electoral commission. Research professor Obambe Gakosso gives us his take on the surprising win. @NyashaKMutizwa Read More

The Senegalese National Assembly voted unanimously on Monday for a bill proposing tougher sentences such as life imprisonment for acts of rape and pedophilia. Up to now, rape had been considered in as a simple offense, punishable by five to ten years in prison. Former magistrate Dior Fall Sow tells us how effective she thinks this law will be in… Read More

With 70% of world cocoa production, Africa has several assets to transform its production, but it faces numerous obstacles. The continent, home to more than two of the world’s major cocoa producers, has enormous potential and resources to process locally. But it faces the problem of imbalance: producers complain that they receive only 2% of the $100 billion generated by… Read More

In Kenya, tea farmers are looking for alternative sources to fill the economic gap caused by the fall in world market prices. It is to face these difficulties encountered by the world’s leading tea supplier that Kenyan producers are now experimenting with different varieties of tea, to open up to a new clientele and to protect themselves against price instability.… Read More

I will come back to Uganda Celebrated South African musician and global children’s ambassador Yvonne Chaka Chaka says she will come back to Uganda and perform, following her controversial departure from the East African nation on the eve of New Year’s Day. ‘‘I can assure you. I will come back to Uganda and perform. This is my motherland,’‘ Chaka Chaka… Read More

Guinea Bissau’s electoral commission on Wednesday declared the country’s former prime minister Umaro Cissoko Embalo the winner of Sunday’s presidential election with 54% of the vote. Embalo, 47, who beat opponent Domingos Simoes Pereira in a run-off vote, will succeed incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz, whose tenure was marred by political infighting, an ill-functioning parliament and corruption. Read More

Worshippers of the sea goddess Yemanja gathered in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, December 28, 2019 to honour the so-called Queen of the Sea. The followers of Brazil’s Afro-Brazilian Candomble and Umbanda faiths were singing, playing drums, and dancing during the traditional New Year tribute. This year’s celebration was not as big as previous years due to… Read More

Cameroon, the first of the 17 African countries to gain independence in 1960, will mark its 60th anniversary on 1 January. It may be a muted Independence Day in the central African nation. The nation is currently facing Boko Haram attacks in the far north and a violent separatist conflict in the English-speaking southwest. Anthropologist and writer, Professor Charly Gabriel… Read More

Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been chosen by his party to run again for the top job in 2021, having already led the central African country for a total of 35 years. His re-election in 2016 sparked violence in a country where most of the five million people live below the poverty line despite huge oil reserves. Africanews correspondent… Read More

2020 is projected to be a year of economic integration and action in Africa. In this week’s business segment, Amelia Martha Nakitimbo highlights some events on the calender. AfCFTA to come into force In exactly seven months from now, Africa will become the world’s largest trade block valued at $1.3 billion dollars. The African Free Trade Continental Agreement (AfCFTA) comes… Read More