Armed groups deployed in the suburbs of Libya’s capital on Tuesday, sparking security fears ahead of an expected delay of presidential elections, as three key candidates met in the country’s east. The vote was meant to cap a UN-led peace process after a ceasefire between eastern and western camps last year, but with no final…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s office says at least 45 farmers were killed in the violence between farmers and herders in central Nigeria. Nigeria’s presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country’s central Nasarawa state. In a statement late on Tuesday, the office of President Muhammadu Buhari said…
The EU’s training mission in Mali (EUTM) handed over command to a new general. The ceremony took place on Tuesday in the Malian capital, Bamako, and was attended by a number of European ambassadors as well as Malian military brass. The move follows the announcement that Mali has accepted one thousand UN peacekeepers from nearby…
A cargo ship illegally carrying 130 passengers sank off Madagascar’s northeastern coast, killing at least 17 people and leaving 68 missing, officials said Monday. At least 45 people have been rescued from the waters of the Indian Ocean, according to a report from the Maritime and River Port Agency. The ship, Francia, had left the…
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 21 (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund will start discussions next month on an extended credit facility with Mozambique, the fund said on Tuesday, its first potential programme with the country since suspending support in 2016. That year Mozambique unveiled hefty state-backed borrowing it had previously failed to disclose, in a $2-billion corruption…
Five civilians and a soldier were killed in the latest attack by armed groups in the Central African Republic, a local official said Monday. Rebel fighters attacked positions of Central African forces on Sunday in the town of Mann, some 600 kilometres northwest of the capital, Bangui, local sub-prefect Jean-Ulrich Sembetanga told AFP. “The toll is five civilians killed, one…
Clashes between protesters and police break out in capital of North Kivu province. Several people have been reported dead as protesters clashed with security forces in the city of Goma, in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Large rocks littered a street where crowds of demonstrators gathered on Monday for…
South African scientists – hailed for their discovery of Omicron – are investigating the “highly plausible hypothesis” that the emergence of new Covid-19 variants could be linked, in some cases, to mutations taking place inside infected people whose immune systems have already been weakened by other factors, including, though not limited to, untreated HIV. Researchers…
An Egyptian activist who played a central role in Egypt’s uprising in 2011 was sentenced on Monday to five years in jail by a special court in Cairo. Alaa Abdel Fattah was found guilty of “spreading false information” according to the defendents sister. Two other activists were also sentenced to four years in prison on…
Attackers destroy homes, vehicles and agricultural produce. NAIROBI, Kenya – At least 38 people have been killed in an attack by suspected bandits in northwestern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, an official said late Sunday. The victims were villagers in the Giwa Local Government Area, Samuel Aruwan, Kaduna state’s commissioner for internal security, said in a press statement.…