Protests During a Pandemic Around 400 to 500 demonstrators took to the streets of Algiers on Monday in defiance of a nationwide ban on protests to demand democratic change as they also called for the release of over 60 members of the Hirak anti-government movement that saw president Abdelaziz Bouteflika step down last year. The…
Yawa Kouigan is the mayor of Atakpamé, Togo’s fifth largest city in population. She is the first mayor elected in the last 30 years and faces several daily challenges. “This pollution is the kind of problem that led us to think about development and how hard it was to manage natural resources,” she explained. “All…
The number of people hit by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased more than five fold in four years, according to UN figures. Nearly six million people have been affected this year with 1.5 million of them forced from their homes. Parts of the region are recording the heaviest rains in a century. In…
Mali’s Transitional President Bah Ndaw has appointed on Monday the new government. In a special address on the national television, the Presidency’s secretary general Sékou Traoré has detailled the composition of the government, where Army members have obtained key ministries Colonel Sadio Camara, one of the leaders of the Junta and the former camp director…
The government is unlikely to force retirement funds to plough money into specific companies or projects, an industry body of fund managers and insurers says. Of the economic plans under discussion to revive SA’s economy, none are calling for prescribed assets to be used as a solution, the Association for Savings and Investments SA (Asisa)…
An Annual Religious Celebration Tens of thousands of Muslims gathered at Senegal’s holy city of Touba on Monday, for the annual Grand Magal- a pilgrimage which honours the founder of the Mouride Brotherhood, Senegal’s most influential religious order, and that attracts worshippers both from around the country and abroad. The event raises concerns in light…
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