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South Africa’s ANC, which ruled the country for three decades, seeks to join a coalition government after it obtained only 40% of the votes in the May 29 elections. The debacle of ANC was expected as polls showed a falling popularity of the party that ruled what used to be Africa’s richest country since the […]
The United States is “missing an incredible window of opportunity” in Africa, a senior executive in US company told the US Senate Committee on Finance, urging a “quick renewal” of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) that will have the largest impact on the US business interests on the African continent. SanMar Corporation’s general […]
The European Union’s migration deals with Tunisia and Mauritania have proved to be controversial, with the former strongly criticized for fundamental rights violations of migrants stranded in the north African country, while the latter has not discouraged thousands of Africans from increasingly going through Mauritania to reach European shores. In July 2023, the EU signed […]
Malawi’s Vice-President, Saulos Chilima, and nine others were killed when a small military plane crashed in a northern mountainous region, the country’s president said in a live televised address on Tuesday. The wreckage of the plane was found after a search that lasted more than 24 hours since it disappeared on Monday (10 June) but […]
Malawi’s Vice-President, Saulos Chilima, and nine others were killed when a small military plane crashed in a northern mountainous region, the country’s president said in a live televised address on Tuesday. The wreckage of the plane was found after a search that lasted more than 24 hours since it disappeared on Monday (10 June) but […]
The UN refugee agency UNHCR urged concrete actions to avert forced displacement in the war-ravaged Sahel, warning of a deteriorating humanitarian crisis. Nearly 3.3 million people were forced to flee their homes in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger due to increasing terrorist activity, exacerbated by drought, the UNHCR said in a statement. “The security situation […]
Nearly 20,000 millionaires fled Africa in the past decade due to currency depreciations that eroded their wealth, according to Henley and Partners, a global citizenship and residence consultancy. The number of individuals with a wealth of $1 million in Africa dropped 8% to 135,200, while the number of billionaires was limited to 21 with a […]
Foreign minister of Central African Republic, Mrs. Sylvie Baïpo-Temon, has reiterated her country’s unwavering support for Morocco’s territorial integrity, describing the autonomy plan proposed by the Kingdom for the Sahara under its sovereignty as the “ONLY credible and realistic” solution for resolving this regional conflict in line with UN Charter. The top diplomat of the […]
The government of the Central African Republic accused Chinese mining company Daqing SARL of backing rebels and suspended its operations in the country. Daqing is a gold and diamond mining company operating in the Mingala area south of the country where the government is battling the Coalition of Patriots for Change. The CAR government issued […]
Benin accused Niger of sending secret agents to spy in its Seme port where a Chinese-built pipeline was supposed to begin exporting Nigerien gas, before it was blocked by Beninese authorities last month. The arrest of five Nigerien nationals marks a new escalatory move in the standoff between the two ECOWAS neighbors. Benin said the […]