By CHRIS MEGERIAN ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will pledge a new era of partnership with Africa on Tuesday when she speaks from Black Star Gate, which commemorates Ghana’s independence from colonialism. The speech on her second full day in Ghana is part of a weeklong trip that will include visits to Tanzania and…
Summary Police’s directorates held joint drills at a training facility in Kigo, Wakiso District on Monday. In several African countries, including Kenya, people are rising up to protest the high cost of living and democracy. Similar uprisings due to food prices in 2011 led to the toppling of African leaders in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.…
Text by : NEWS WIRES Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on Monday pardoned 259 of the 262 protesters jailed last year after protests which turned into deadly clashes between police and demonstrators. “Persons convicted on December 2 2022 for unauthorised assembly, destruction of property, arson, violence and assault, assault and battery, and public order…
Text by : NEWS WIRES A surge in attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed more than 700 lives at the hands of militia fighters since December, the United Nations said Monday. Rebel militias have plagued the eastern DRC for decades, many of them a legacy of regional wars that flared…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP TUNISIA Like many black Tunisians, 26-year-old Nebras Magnnah has been fearful since waves of racist attacks targeting sub-Saharan African migrants were unleashed after incendiary remarks by President Kais Saied. Ever since Saied last month ordered “urgent measures” against sub-Saharan migrants over a purported “criminal plot” to change the North African…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP KENYA Kenyan police fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters and opposition leader Raila Odinga’s convoy on Monday as he pressed ahead with an anti-government rally despite a ban. The protesters defied a warning by the Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome that the demonstrations in Nairobi and the…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP MAURITANIA Police in Mauritania said on Sunday they had arrested a man believed to be the organiser of the escape of four jihadist detainees from the central prison in the capital, Nouakchott, three weeks earlier. In a statement posted on Facebook, they said a team from the General Directorate of…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies SUDAN Sudan’s military chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, reaffirmed that the army would be placed under the authority of a new civilian-led government as talks on military reforms began on Sunday as part of a lengthy transition to civilian rule. According to Al-Burhan, the process of security and military reform…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP BURKINA FASO The ruling junta in Burkina Faso on Monday ordered the suspension “sine die” of France 24’s broadcasting on its territory, after an interview on the news channel with the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in early March. “By opening its airwaves to AQIM’s top…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP and AFP KENYA Police in Kenya were on high alert on Monday as they braced for a new round of anti-government protests, as the opposition called on people to take to the streets every Monday and Thursday over the high cost of living. Despite a police ban, veteran opposition leader,…