Reuters | @SABCNews West African countries of the eight-nation economic and monetary union are struggling to raise funds on the regional capital market, as investors demand higher interest rates amid tightening liquidity, financial market sources said. Ivory Coast failed to issue local currency debt in March, while Senegal, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have cancelled or postponed…
By ABDULKADIR KHALIF Cuba has sent an ambassador to Somalia for the first time in 46 years, renewing ties with the Horn of Africa country. Mr Juan Manuel Rodriguez Vázquez will be the non-resident Cuban ambassador to Somalia after he presented credentials to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday. Diplomatic relations between Cuba and…
Summary Experts say the sticking point in proposed reforms is the integration into Sudan’s regular army of paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The FFC called for peaceful nationwide protests on Thursday for freedom, peace and justice as well as against old regime return. The December deal calls for the military’s exit from Sudan’s politics once a civilian…
By PATRICK ILUNGA The East African Regional Force (EACRF) and the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Monusco) will soon launch joint operations, EACRF announced on Tuesday. EACRF’s General Jeff Nyagah on Tuesday met with the new Monusco Force Commander Lt Gen Otávio Rodrigues De Miranda in Goma, North Kivu to seal…
Summary Ayo says her in-laws and neighbours asked her husband to disown her because she was born in captivity. She returned 11 years later in 2004 with two children – Ayo and her elder sister. While efforts have been made to reunite children with their families, very few communities have embraced them. Various organisations have…
By Rédaction Africanews SUDAN The agreement between civilians, military and paramilitary supposed to restart the democratic transition in Sudan after the 2021 putsch has been postponed again, civilians said on Wednesday evening, calling for demonstrations on Thursday, the anniversary of anti-putsch uprisings. Already postponed last week, the signing of the framework agreement providing for a…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP MALI Former Tuareg rebel group charged Mali’s governing junta of “provocation” on Wednesday, alleging that military fighter planes flew close to four of their bases amid concerns of escalating violence. The escalation came on the eve of a significant occasion: the anniversary of one of the main Tuareg factions’ unilateral…
Rwanda and Kenya have made a commitment to play a positive role in the East Africa Community EAC’s campaign to restore stability to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This emerged during Kenyan President William Ruto’s state visit to Rwanda. A war has been raging on between government forces and the M23 rebels. Regional organisations…
Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana says the exemption granted to Eskom allowing it not to disclose irregular and wasteful expenditures in its financial reports will not go ahead “for now”. Godongwana said the department would withdraw the gazette after consultation with the auditor general (AG) yesterday, 4 April, and the widespread public outcry. However, the minister…
The Office of the State Attorney says that it has been instructed by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs that the government has decided to terminate the declaration of a state of disaster over the Eskom crisis in the country. In response to court action brought against the state for the declaration, the…