Mauritanian authorities arrested last Sunday scores of anti-slavery activists on the backdrop of riots and clashes last week with security forces in Nouakchott. The riots started when security forces stormed slump dwellings occupied for decades by the Haratin ethnic group, many of them former slaves. The authorities accused the members of the Initiative for the […]
The draw for the 2024 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, on January 15, 2025, announced the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The CHAN, which will be co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania from February 1 to 28, 2025, will feature top African nations. So far, Morocco, Senegal, the Central African […]
Cameroon under the directives of President Paul Biya has lined up for a $34.7 million loan from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to finance the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the Anglophone Regions of Northwest and Southwest. The plan estimated at around $3 billion encompasses three phases namely rehabilitation and development of […]
