By Rédaction Africanews and AFP ETHIOPIA Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives votes in favour of the state of emergency declared by the federal government over violence in the Amhara region. “Related peace and security issues shake the constitutional order, present a danger to the sovereignty of the country and public peace and safety. Therefore, to…
The EU on Friday criticised the worsening conditions of detained Niger President Mohamed Bazoum and called for his immediate release. The news comes after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Thursday for a peaceful solution to reverse Niger’s coup after the West African bloc ECOWAS approved a “standby” military force. Read our live blog…
BY MOGOMOTSI MAGOME JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President Jacob Zuma was briefly taken to prison and released to correctional supervision Friday, prison officials said. Last month South Africa had deployed the army for security in four provinces amid concerns of unrest over a court decision making his 2021 medical parole invalid. Zuma was admitted…
BY CARA ANNA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Members of Ethiopia’s LGBTQ+ community say they face a wave of online harassment and physical attacks and blame much of it on the social media platform TikTok, which they say is failing to take down posts calling for homosexual and transgender people to be whipped, stabbed and killed. A…
By Esther Ogola, Gem O’Reilly & Favour Nunoo BBC News, Nairobi, London & Accra Women on the minimum wage in Ghana have to spend one in every seven dollars they earn on sanitary pads, research by the BBC has found. The BBC surveyed nine countries around Africa to see how affordable period products are. We…
By Rédaction Africanews and Afp NIGER West African leaders have approved the deployment of a “standby force to restore constitutional order” in Niger, an intervention that will take place as soon as possible, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said Thursday. The ECOWAS regional bloc did not provide details on the force to be deployed or…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies NIGER US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday voiced support for efforts of the West African bloc ECOWAS on Niger without explicitly backing its call at a summit for military intervention. The United States has in recent days cautioned that military force should be only a last resort and…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Thursday for a peaceful solution to reverse Niger’s coup after the West African bloc ECOWAS approved a “standby” military force. Read our live blog for all the latest developments on the situation in Niger. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). 04:46am : US says it will hold Niger…
A vast police operation against West African mafia groups specialising in internet fraud has been carried out by Interpol, the international criminal police organisation. More than two million euros were seized or frozen and 103 people arrested in 21 countries in an investigation codenamed Operation Jackal. Text by : RFI Follow “It sends a strong…
Reuters | @SABCNews Niger’s military junta met with two Nigerian envoys on Wednesday, offering hope for dialogue before a summit with regional leaders that could result in military action to restore democracy. The talks took place as Niger accused France of violating its airspace, attacking a military camp and freeing “terrorists” to undermine the country. Paris denied…