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At least 28 people, including soldiers and civilians, have been killed in two separate attacks by rebel fighters in northern Burkina Faso, a regional governor and the army said in separate statements. The army said on Monday (30 January) that a combat unit in Falagountou, in the country’s north near its border with Niger, came […]
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Harare to pomp and fanfare on Monday (30 January) for a two-day visit and talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart, Emmerson Mnangagwa, aimed at cementing economic and political ties between the two countries that are both close allies of Russia. Mnangagwa and hundreds of singing and cheering ruling party supporters […]
Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d’Ivoire’s ex-leader, has called on regional grouping ECOWAS to establish counter-terrorism brigade to curtail terrorism that has plagued the region. Gbagbo was speaking at a meeting of his party PPA-CI, at Bayota, a town in south-central Ivory Coast. “The problem in the Sahel today is the jihadists,” he said. For a 77-year […]
Babacar Diop, Mayor of the Senegalese town of Thiès announced Sunday he will be a candidate for 2024 presidential elections for which incumbent Macky Sall is currently barred from. Diop made the announcement at the end of the congress of his Forces démocratiques du Sénégal [Democratic Forces of Senegal] also known as Guelwaars. The Philosophy […]
Three new African countries have signed, Saturday in Marrakech, the “Solemn Appeal for the expulsion of the pseudo SADR from the African Union”, known as “Tangier Appeal”. During this first follow-up meeting of the “Tangier Appeal” former Foreign Ministers of Lesotho, Madagascar and Gambia have proceeded to the signing of this Appeal, signed on November […]
On the occasion of the Dakar 2 Summit, held from January 25 to 27 in Diamniadio, near Dakar, on the theme “Feed Africa: food sovereignty and resilience”, the Moroccan government shared successful experiences in the agricultural field, which are the subject of cooperation with the countries of the continent, said the African Development Bank (AfDB) […]
Morocco OCP group will “actively contribute” to improving agricultural productivity in Africa, with a commitment to devote to the continent more than 4 million tons of fertilizers in 2023, said the General Manager of OCP Africa, Mohamed Anouar Jamali. This amount represents “more than double that provided by OCP to the continent in 2021 and […]
France’s Foreign ministry Thursday said it has recalled its ambassador to Burkina Faso amid diplomatic tension after the government of the West African country ordered Paris to remove its troops from its soil in rejection of 2018 military agreement between the two countries. “In the context of the latest developments in Burkina Faso, we have […]
Pope Francis has condemned a “colonialist mentality” of the international community toward Africa in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press at the Vatican, just days ahead of his official visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan. Highlighting the problem of attitude toward the African continent, Francis pointed out in the […]
South Africa and its neighbors were at the center of a tussle for influence this week when US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in turn arrived for a diplomatic visit, offering a rare moment of leverage for regional governments intent at using the opportunity to gain concessions and increase trade […]