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AU/PSC: Morocco calls on Sudan to opt for dialogue to resolve crisis, to prevent outside interference

Morocco emphasized, this Wednesday before the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, the importance of adopting dialogue as a means of resolving the crisis in brotherly Sudan and to prevent outside interference. Speaking on behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, at a ministerial meeting of […]

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German Agency for International Cooperation returns to Congo after nearly 27-year hiatus

Germany’s agency for International Cooperation, GIZ, has resumed activities in Congo Brazzaville nearly 27 years after exiting the central African country because of political instability. Arlette Soudan Nonault, the country’s minister of Sustainable development and Congo Bassin and the German ambassador Wolfgang Klapper inaugurated the offices of the Agency on Monday November 13 in capital […]

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Guinea: Four high-ranking army commanders sacked after attack on central prison

Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, head of ruling junta in Guinea, expelled Tuesday November 14 four Army top commanders few days after an attack on the country’s main prison to release former leader Moussa Dadis Camara standing on a trial for a massacre committed on protestors in 2009. A decree signed by Doumbouya announced that Colonel Pépé […]

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Mali’s army recaptures strategic northern rebel stronghold of Kidal

Mali’s army has reportedly recaptured the strategic northern town of Kidal, which has been a stronghold of Tuareg-dominated separatist rebel groups that has long posed a major sovereignty issue for the ruling junta. “Today our armed and security forces have seized Kidal,” Colonel Assimi Goita said in a statement on Tuesday (14 November). “The (Malian […]

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Liberians head to polls in tightly contested presidential run-off between football legend and ex-VP

Liberians headed to the polls this Tuesday (14 November) to cast their vote in a presidential run-off after the two leading candidates — George Weah, a former footballer and incumbent president and political veteran Joseph Boakai — came neck to neck, separated by just over 7,000 votes in the first round a month ago. Liberian […]

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Gabon: Junta sets August 2025 as end of transition through elections

The junta in power in Gabon known as the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) unveiled Monday November 13 a timeline for the transition which will come to an end in August 2025 following general elections. The CRTI led by incumbent transitional leader General Brice Oligui Nguema came to power on August […]

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Libya, CDC Africa discuss cooperation to enhance capabilities of national health system

Libya is seeking cooperation with African Union Center for Disease Control (CDC) in many fields including primary health care services, strengthen mental health services, as well as supporting response to epidemics and health emergencies, ‘Libya Observer’ reports citing the Libyan Foreign ministry. The North African country’s Health minister Ramadan Abu Janah met Monday November 13 […]

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Congo: Students in restive North Kivu province unveil long range missiles to be used against M23 rebels

Congolese students in conflict-plagued eastern province of North Kivu have tested successfully long-range missiles and explosives capable of attacking the positions of powerful M23 rebels sowing havoc in the region. The students from the ISTA, the regional applied technical Institute in the provincial city of Goma, reportedly unveiled long range surface-to-surface missiles and explosives. They […]

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Russia opens first Cultural center in Chad

Russia’s ambassador to Chad Vladimir Sokolenko inaugurated over the weekend the first Russian Cultural center in the central African country to bolster ties between the two countries. Named “Russkiy Dom” the culture center located in capital N’djamena is an initiative of Chadian alumni of Russian universities. It seeks to be a dynamic place for social […]

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Polisario impedes African Union’s international partnerships

The African Union’s quest to assert itself in global arenas as a partner to regional institutions and global powers is undermined by the presence of a separatist proxy that lacks all the attributes of a sovereign state. In less than a week, two major partnership events were put off sine die to avoid the probability […]