Politics Guinea PM pledges to stick to junta transition plan Conakry – Guinea’s new prime minister Mohamed Beavogui on Thursday promised to follow a plan to restore civilian rule set... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
Countries Gunmen kill 24 people in northern Nigeria Kano – Gunmen raided two villages in northwest Nigeria killing 24 people, police and residents said on Thursday, in the... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
News Aid workers kidnapped in DRC’s troubled east Bukavu – Three Congolese employees of the US aid organisation International Medical Corps (IMC) are among four men who have... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
Politics Algeria urges Morocco to quit Western Sahara buffer zone Algiers – Algeria, the main backer of Western Sahara’s Polisario Front independence movement, called on Morocco on Thursday to... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
Countries SA’s moral compass: Ramaphosa, Biden wish Tutu a happy 90th birthday Cape Town – Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon, Nobel peace laureate and a man dubbed the “moral compass of... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
Politics Burkina ex-president to snub trial on Thomas Sankara assassination Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore, the main accused in a long-awaited trial on the 1987 assassination of... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
News Northwest Nigeria facing ‘brewing humanitarian crisis’ Sokoto – Maryam Aliyu and her six children were lying next to each other fast asleep when gunmen broke... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
Politics Algeria tells France to ‘decolonise its history’ in new spat Bamako – Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has told France to “decolonise” its history, in the latest verbal broadside between... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
Countries Abiy replaces defence, peace ministers in new Ethiopia cabinet Addis Ababa – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday appointed the former head of war-hit Tigray’s interim administration as... Read more 7 Oct, 2021
Politics Burkina names new army chief in military revamp Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso’s president Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Wednesday revamped the military by axing his army chief of... Read more 7 Oct, 2021