First Independent Mena Newspaper
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 […]
The jihadist violence, which has wracked much of West Africa’s inland Sahel region for more than the past seven years, is now spreading into the coastal states with Benin having recorded more attacks than any other coastal state in the region, experts say. Violence by extremists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group in […]
Eleven people have been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Côte d’Ivoire after being convicted of carrying out an Islamic extremist attack that killed 19 people and injured dozens more on a tourist beach in March 2016. Of the eleven defendants, all Malians, seven were not present in court to hear the […]