Mauritius, one of Africa’s most stable democracies, conducted parliamentary elections Sunday as Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth’s ruling party sought to secure a second five-year term. The election follows recent controversy over the government’s temporary social media restrictions during a wiretapping scandal involving leaked conversations of prominent figures. Approximately one million registered voters participated in the […]
The French Foreign Ministry’s updated travel warning states that areas at risk are expanding in Africa, on the backdrop of rising terrorist threats, and that only one country on the continent is considered “safe”: Morocco. This update comes after the kidnapping of French tourists in Benin and whose release in Burkina Faso resulted in the […]
Senior officials from over 30 countries and international bodies have called for an immediate end to the siege of El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped without essential supplies. In a joint statement issued on Thursday, August 14, signatories including the UK, Canada, Spain, Norway, Sweden, and the […]
