Chadian prosecutors say the country is to try 401 people detained during and after deadly anti-government protests in October, during which, officially, around 50 people died when police opened fire on the demonstrators in the capital N’Djamena and several other cities Prosecutors said the 401 detainees would be tried from 29 November to 4 December […]
Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz has called for banning opposition MPs from entering the parliament, labelling them as “intruders” and “extremists.” He said in an address to his party members, the Union for the Republic, in the northern locality of Akjoujt, that the presidential elections take place with the participation “of intruders with ideas and […]
In Ghana, researchers are testing a system that will turn cocoa into biofuels to benefit African farming communities currently with little or no access to grid power. The project funded by the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom will be tested in Ghana, one of the world’s largest producers of cocoa. The new green […]
