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Outgoing US president Joe Biden arrived in Angola on Monday (2 December) for his long-awaited inaugural presidential visit to the continent and also the first-ever visit by a sitting US head of state to the oil-rich southern African country. On his way to the African continent, Biden stopped in the Atlantic Ocean island nation of […]
South Africa became the first African country to take over the G20 presidency on Sunday (1 December), which may also be the most challenging yet amid growing global political instability and shifting world order. As the first African country ever to lead the forum, Pretoria said that while it aims to focus on issues such […]
Namibia’s female vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah from the ruling SWAPO party leads — as widely expected — in early results in the presidential election marred by significant problems, amid rising tensions as opposition parties denounce its outcome, seeking legal action. Plagued by significant technical issues, including ballot shortages and other problems, Namibia’s presidential election was […]
The latest East African Community (EAC) summit at the weekend focused, among other issues, on the resolution of two conflicts that are threatening the stability of the region — the dispute between Ethiopia and Somalia and the unabated violence by rebel groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Kenya’s President William Ruto has said […]
Senegal on Sunday (1 December) commemorated the 80th anniversary of a colonial-era massacre of African soldiers who were gunned down by French troops even though they had fought for France during World War II. The Senegalese soldiers were massacred by the French at Thiaroye in 1944 simply for demanding fair treatment and payment on their […]
Only weeks before stepping down from the political stage, US president Joe Biden will visit Angola from 2-4 December in what will be his first trip to the African continent during his presidency. It’s not by chance that Angola was chosen to be among the US leader’s final international engagements before leaving office — “this […]
Botswana will soon join Antwerp in Belgium to become the second certification center globally to verify the origin of rough diamond for exports to Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized countries, the nation’s presidency said Thursday (28 November). Following a ban on Russian diamonds issued by the G7 in January this year, Antwerp was selected […]
France has been asked by Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to close all its military bases in the West African state because these were “incompatible” with Senegal’s national sovereignty. Faye made this call in an interview with the AFP on Thursday (28 November), just as Senegal was preparing to mark the 80th anniversary of a […]
Chad’s government is terminating a defense cooperation agreement with France, its former colonial ruler, with its top diplomat saying his country has “grown up” and now wants to fully assert its sovereignty. As Sahel nations, from Niger to Mali to Burkina Faso, have ousted French soldiers from their territories and moved closer to Russia, Chad […]
Four executives from the Barrick Gold Corporation have been detained in Mali, the Canadian mining company has confirmed, adding that all these employees of its Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex had been charged and detained pending trial. The arrests come as the Sahel country’s military regime intensifies efforts to impose additional taxes on foreign mining companies by […]