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President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday accused the regional forces deployed in the east of the central African country for cohabitation, except Burundi. Soldiers from Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda and Burundi have been deployed by the East African Community (EAC) in the east of Congo to back the local army struggling […]
Mounting frustrations with Guinea’s interim military government have driven more people to join anti-government protests in the capital, Conakry, days after several private media and online outlets in the West African country launched a one-day boycott of news in protest at press and internet restrictions by the authorities. Seven people were killed on May 11 […]
One of the last at-large suspects of the Rwandan genocide — a former police chief, Fulgence Kayishema — has been arrested in South Africa. He has allegedly orchestrated the killing of approximately 2,000 Tutsi refugees in 1994. The 62-year-old Kayishema was indicted by a UN tribunal on Rwanda in 2001 but has been on the […]
Workers at Standard Chartered Bank in Cameroon have ended a several-day strike over the payment of a severance bonus amounting to more than one month’s salary per year of service, with no ceiling, and the payment of a bonus that does not include any discrimination or consideration based on performance and/or quality of service, Journal […]
Nigeria emerges as Africa’s top destination for foreign direct investment (FDI), having reportedly attracted over 30% of the FDI in the continent’s tech ecosystem and increasingly becoming the hub of digital technology in the continent. “The Nigeria tech ecosystem has attracted about $4.4billion investment between the year 2015, 2019 and 2020 respectively, and ICT contributing […]
The London Court of Appeal on Thursday irrevocably rejected the appeal of the pro-separatist NGO ”WSC” against a previous decision of the Administrative Court, rejecting its request which attempted to question the association agreement linking Morocco to the United Kingdom. This third setback since last December for the enemies of Morocco’s territorial integrity confirms the […]
Clashes between rival military factions broke out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Wednesday (24 May) and spilled over into Thursday, effectively undermining the ceasefire agreed to on May 20 after talks in Jeddah mediated by Saudi Arabia and the United States. Sporadic clashes between the Sudanese army and a powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) […]
Korea’s International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will donate Moroccan city of Marrakesh 20 electric buses worth $7.5 million. These zero emission buses will help improving air quality in one of the world most popular tourist destinations. The grant’s agreement was inked Wednesday by KOICA Chief in Rabat Yongwoo Jeong, president of the Council of Marrakech-Safi region […]
The Moroccan delegation participating in the Pan-African Parliament meeting, convening in Johannesburg (South Africa), has foiled an attempt by the Polisario to put the Sahara issue on the agenda of the MPs debates. Irked and enraged by their failure, the Polisario members lashed out at the African Parliament standing committee on international relations & conflict’s […]
Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday (23 May) in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops and soldiers and the return of individuals displaced during the two-year conflict Tigray residents demand that Ethiopia’s allies – Eritrean troops and militiamen from the neighboring Amhara region – who had stayed following the cease-fire last […]