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France’s African soldiers, known ‘as Senegalese tirailleurs’ who fought in the world wars and the country’s colonial conflicts, have now won their final battle — the surviving fighters will be able to live out their days with their families back in Africa after a French government U-turn on their pension rights. The decision, made in […]
Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam, an Eritrean fugitive accused of being “the world’s most wanted” people smuggler has been arrested in Sudan in coordination with United Arab Emirates authorities, Interpol announced. The Eritrean national, on Interpol’s radar since 2019, has been accused of being a smuggling kingpin, running a camp in Libya where hundreds of East African […]
France and Germany are sending next week their Foreign Ministers to Ethiopia to consolidate the peace agreement signed early November between Addis Abba and Tigrayan rebels. The announcement was made by French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna Thursday. “I will be going next week with my colleague and friend Annalena Baerbock to Africa, to Ethiopia,” Colonna […]
Henri Rabarijohn, the governor of Madagascar’s Central Bank (BFM)) has stepped down from his position on health conditions ground. President Andry Rajoelina has accepted the resignation of Rabarijohn who, according to a statement from the cabinet, stepped down due to health issues and wants to leave the country for treatment abroad. The Malagasy leader appointed […]
Equatorial Guinea’s Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, who is also the son of the president, has accused the country’s former colonial power Spain of „interference” after the country’s judiciary opened an investigation into the “kidnapping” and “torture” of two Spanish nationals in the West African state’s capital Malabo. The two Spanish nationals, Feliciano Efa Mangue […]
Armed men Monday (2 January) attacked a civil defense post in a small southwest town in Mali in what was a rare attack near the capital Bamako, killing five people, Mali’s security ministry has said. The ministry said in a statement Tuesday (3 January) the unidentified armed individuals attacked the defense post in the town […]
The Spanish Customs and Civil Guard announced that they dismantled an organization that had sent more than 5,000 tons of hazardous electronic waste from the Canary Islands to several African countries including Ghana and Mauritania, Africa News reports. The “criminal organization had, during the last two years, managed to send from the island of Gran […]
Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has directed persons earning an income from entertainment activities to get tax identification numbers, reports say. Per the directive, failure to obtain the tax identification number shall attract a fine of up to 3 million Shillings ($807.58) or imprisonment of six years or both if the failure is done intentionally or […]
Mali and Brazil are committed to deepen their bilateral cooperation in the fields of security, agriculture and livestock breeding as Bamako is concerned with security of all Malians and food security. The announcement was made by Malian PM Lieutenant Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga upon return from the South American country where he attended the inauguration of […]
Zimbabwe joined gold miners from Indonesia to Peru last year by ratifying the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international treaty adopted in 2013, that seeks to phase out the toxic metal to protect human health and the environment. Inhaling fumes or regular contact with mercury during gold mining can each have devastating effects […]