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Namibian authorities have ordered Russia’s state atomic energy agency to stop uranium exploration over concerns about potential contamination of underground water. Namibia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform refused to grant Russia’s Rosatom subsidiary, One Uranium, a water use permit required for mining, saying the company failed to prove its uranium extraction method would […]
A court in the Senegalese capital Dakar has condemned two members of the parliament to six months in prison each for beating a female colleague during an incident in the legislature last month. Massata Samb and Mamadou Niang, both from the opposition, attacked Ami Ndiaye from the ruling coalition during a parliament session on the […]
Nigeria’s magazine “New African” has included eight Moroccans in its listing of the 100 most influential African personalities for the year 2022. The Moroccans picked up by the magazine are coach Walid Regragui, Foreign minister Nasser Bourita, the ambassadors of Morocco to Ghana, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire, Chief of Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (AMCI), […]
An arrest warrant was issued Thursday (29 December) in Botswana for former president Ian Khama who is wanted for the possession of illegal firearms. Botswana’s former leader is believed to be in South Africa, where he went into a self-imposed exile in November last year. The judge issued orders that Ian Khama, who left office […]
African Union and East African officials arrived in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Thursday (29 December) to launch a joint monitoring and verification mechanism for a peace deal signed in November to end the two-year war. The mediating team, led by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, as well as African Union […]
Morocco, Egypt, South Africa, Mauritius, and Tunisia are Africa’s most industrialized economies but it is the other countries, which have improved the most over the past 10 years, that have made the greatest efforts to move away from economic dependence on extractives toward value-adding sectors. The countries that showed the greatest progress over the past […]
The Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, has recalled home its ambassador to France Isabelle Tshombe, after an audit of the mission revealed the diplomat was involved in funds embezzlement, Anadolu News Agency reports. A letter dated Dec. 27 and signed by the First Deputy Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula and the audit agency revealed the malpractices […]
Rwanda has accused neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of violating its airspace by flying a fighter jet over its territory amid growing diplomatic tension between the two countries, Kinshasa calling for removing President Paul Kagame. “A Sukhoi-25 fighter jet from the Democratic Republic of Congo violated Rwandan airspace along Lake Kivu in the Western […]
South Sudan announced this week it was sending 750 soldiers to join the East African Regional Force (EARF) trying to bring peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), despite its own struggles to restore peace back home. President Salva Kiir officially announced the deployment of the troops to join contingents from Kenya, Burundi […]
The 46 Ivorian soldiers suspected of being “mercenaries” and detained in Mali since July have appeared before the Court of Appeal in the capital city Bamako on Thursday. Their trial comes in the run-up to a deadline on 1 January 2023 set by West African leaders for Mali to demand the release of the troops […]