Felix Tshisekedi, president of the DR Congo, is in full control of a new government unveiled after a four-month power struggle with predecessor Joseph Kabila. The president had in February named the head of state-owned mining giant Gecamines, Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge, as prime minister. The inauguration of the first government dubbed Union sacrée took…
Strikes, unemployment, soaring prices and shortages of basic foodstuffs in Algeria, a boiling social situation is now added to a deep economic crisis caused by the fall in oil revenues and aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. “Potatoes have very quickly become very expensive. Their price was accessible to all and then suddenly, they became very…
Burundi freed some 1,300 prisoners on Monday at the beginning of a presidential pardon, which aims to free up overcrowded jails. At a prison in Bujumbura, almost 1,000 inmates left their cells at a ceremony attended by President Evariste Ndayishimiye. A total of 5,255 inmates, 40 percent of Burundi’s prison population, will be released in…
Four people, including three Europeans and a Burkinabe, are missing after an anti-poaching patrol was attacked in eastern Burkina Faso on Monday, security sources said. The group was made up of soldiers, forest rangers and foreign reporters. They were targeted in the east of the country in the Fada N’Gourma-Pama area. A local official said…
The first Covid vaccines arrived in Mauritania from the Covax programme on Monday at the airport in the capital Nouakchott. The AstraZeneca doses were donated by France and delivered by the global Covax programme, which aims to supply poorer nations with vaccines. France is the first developed country to make a donation from its national…
Around 100 migrants tried to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco, Spanish police said Monday. The migrants set off Sunday from beaches in Fnideq, a few kilometres south of Ceuta and “some” managed to reach a beach in Ceuta on their own while most had to be rescued by Spanish rescue…
Monitoring Defense and security from April 19th to 26th, 2021-CC
April 25, 2021 (JUBA) – The United Nations is strongly committed to working with the people and leaders of South Sudan to secure stability and eventual prosperity for the country, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Nicholas Haysom said. “South Sudan is entering a new phase and people’s expectations are high. There is real hope…
Biafra Nations League, BNL, has threatened fire and brimstone on the Nigerian Army, if it (the army) repeats same attack that led to the death of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB’s leader, Ikonso Don in Imo State. BNL dared the army and other security agencies to launch similar operations against its members in the Bakassi Peninsula. It…
On 26 April African Continental Free Trade Area will hold the inaugural meeting of its Disputes Settlement Body which will be central to the fair and effective operation of what will eventually be Africa’s single market. In this exclusive opinion piece for The Africa Report, Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the AfCFTA, explains how this body will…