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The Court of Appeal of Abidjan has confirmed a previous condemnation to life imprisonment ruled in July 2021 against former Prime Minister and Speaker of Parliament Guillaume Soro on charges of plot and attempt to remove the administration of President Alassan Ouattara. The court, however, acquitted two of 11 other defendants and dissolved Générations et […]
Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki has accused the U.S. of supporting Tigrayan rebels during the two-year civil war in northern Ethiopia adding that Washington forced to rebels to sign November 2022 peace deal. In an interview with local media, President Afwerki claimed that the peace deal signed between Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) […]
The owner of a huge South African rhino conservation farm, the world’s largest, indicated Monday it would be sold at auction in April because he could no longer afford to breed the endangered animals, reports say. “Breeding rhinos is an expensive game,” John Hume, Platinum’s 81-year-old founder, told AFP, adding that he had been breeding […]
Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi has warned that his country may sever ties with diamond giant De Beers if talks to renegotiate a sales deal prove unfavorable to his government, AFP reports. Masisi also called on the nation to rally behind his government as it tries to hammer out a better deal. The country is Africa’s […]
Despite regular warnings by US military commanders about a possible second Chinese military base in Sub-Saharan Africa and rumors about new footholds in countries like Equatorial Guinea, China’s strategic interest in Africa is relatively low, especially when compared with regions like Southeast Asia and the Middle East, according to a new policy brief published by […]
Foreign ministers from Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali, all of which recently underwent military coups, have called for their reinstatement into the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) following a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergey Lavrov. The top diplomats from the three west African countries said in […]
The President of Senegal Macky Sall inaugurated Saturday a power plant with a 120 Mega Watt output expected to provide energy to 500,000 households in and around the city of Thies, located West of the African country. The plant build in the town of Malicounda is a public and private partnership. The shareholders include state-run […]
The Kenyan police Sunday said three of its officers were shot dead by bandits in Napeimoit, Turkana County, during a gun battle, Nation Africa reports. The victims include two General Service Unit (GSU) and a regular police officer. They came under attack in ambush by the gang, believed from a neighboring county, as they revisited […]
Nigeria could become biggest oil refiner in the region by 2025, Hawilti, a pan-African investment research firm, has predicted, a prediction that comes as a surprise in light of the west African nation’s longstanding struggle with shortage of petroleum products for its population, Africa’s largest. According to Hawilti’s recent report titled “Refineries watch Q4 2022”, […]
China-Africa digital services hub focused on facilitating trade established in Hunan China’s Hunan province has unveiled a China-Africa Digital Services Hub that focuses on cross-border communications support and data-sharing between Chinese companies working in Africa. The China-Africa economic and trade digitalization service based in Changsha, the provincial capital, aims to support Chinese companies’ trade with […]