First Independent Mena Newspaper
Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila’s unexpected return to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has ignited a political firestorm in a nation already engulfed by escalating conflict and growing insecurity in its eastern region. Announcing his return after six years of silence and exile, Kabila, once ousted amid mass protests, says he aims to help […]
Nigerian naira, Malawian kwacha and Rwandan franc have been named the worst-performing African currencies against the US dollar in 2024, according to a latest report, having faced an array of challenges, from persistent trade imbalances, dwindling foreign reserves, to political instability. Some African nations strengthened their currencies, while others faced worsening exchange rates in 2024. […]
A total of 45 countries and regions worldwide, including 33 in Africa, are in need of external assistance for food, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has warned. The FAO’s latest “Crop Prospects and Food Situation” report indicates that 33 African countries are in dire need of external assistance for food […]
Gold production in Burkina Faso dropped significantly due to a surge in Jihadist activity in a country where military rulers have been in power since September 2022. As Jihadist groups continue to wreak havoc in the wider Sahel, Burkina Faso suffered the most, accounting for almost a quarter of people killed in terrorist attacks globally […]
The two remaining members of West Africa’s G5 Sahel alliance — Chad and Mauritania — have indicated they were paving the way to dissolving the anti-jihadist grouping after the other three founding countries left, citing the failure “to achieve its objectives.” In a joint statement released on Wednesday (6 December), Chad and Mauritania said they […]
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have declared a ten-day curfew in the town on Binku, Maniema province, near capital Kinshasa, to tackle insecurity after the death of nine people killed in an attack. Afani Idrissa Mangala, governor of the province made the announcement indicating that curfew will go from 8pm to 6am […]
As Burkina Faso is dogged in insecurity, 18.846 of its citizens have found refuge in Côte d’Ivoire, Ivorian authorities indicated Wednesday. The national security council, headed by President Alassan Ouattara, had it that the refugees have settled in north and north-east areas of the country. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees conducted a biometric […]
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, has sentenced three Chinese to death for the murder of another Chinese businessman residing in the mineral resources-rich town Kolwezi, the capital of Lualaba province. The ruling came Tuesday, Anadolu news agency reported. The court charged Wang Yon Xu, Cheng Zing Dan and Whang Hui […]
The polisario-forced and Algeria-backed recruitment of children in the camps of Tindouf fuels instability in North Africa and the Sahel, said, on Thursday in Dakhla, the minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita. Speaking at a conference organized by the International Research Center on the Prevention of Child Soldiers, Bourita stressed the correlation between the lack […]
Prime Minister-designate Fayez al-Serraj of the UN-backed Government of National Accord has revealed plans for presidential and parliamentary elections in 2018 as he stated that “the time has come for unity and salvaging our nation.” In a televised speech broadcast over the weekend, Serraj said he was presenting his “vision and proposals for the next […]