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Category: Africa
CAR Defense Minister to visit Russia next week amid talks for Moscow to set up military base
Defense Minister of the Central African Republic (CAR) Claude Rameaux Bireau is set to visit Russia next week amid talks between the two countries for ... Read More
Spiro, electric motorbike manufacturer, to expand fleet in Togo & Benin
Spiro, a leading electric motorbike manufacturer and clean energy provider in Africa, has landed $63 million loan from GuarantCo, a company in the Private Infrastructure ... Read More
Mali suspends granting visas to French citizens in reciprocal move
Mali’s Foreign ministry announced Wednesday August 9 decision by authorities to suspend indefinitely issuance of visa to French nationals after the European country also made ... Read More
Ghana approves ‘minerals of the future’ policy to develop lithium mining, production
Ghana’s government has given the nod to a pioneering green-minerals policy that is aimed at helping the West African country manage the exploitation and production ... Read More
Militant Islamist violence in Sahel surges, contradicting juntas’ security claims
The number of people killed in Africa’s central Sahel region by insurgents, armed groups, state forces and foreign mercenaries has surged this year, according to ... Read More
Rwanda genocide survivors slam UN judges’ call to halt trial of suspect Kabuga
Survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have criticized United Nations court’s call to halt the trial of the nearly 90-year-old Felicien Kabuga, an alleged ... Read More
Eritreans subject to torture, sexual violence during national service — UN investigator
Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers have reported that they had experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and abusive conditions during ... Read More
West African leaders to meet this August 10 for key Summit on Niger as Russia provides support
Leaders from West African bloc ECOWAS will meet on Thursday August 10 for an emergency Summit on the coup in Niger after the military intervention ... Read More
SAfrica: French President Emmanuel Macron not invited to BRICS Summit
French President Emmanuel Macron has not been invited to the BRICS summit - a group of five countries comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South ... Read More
CAR approves new constitution, as opposition slams Touadera for seeking to be ‘president for life’
Voters in the perennially restive Central African Republic (CAR) overwhelmingly approved a controversial draft constitution that could see President Faustin Archange Touadera seek a third, ... Read More