Andrea Shalal and Kopano Gumbi in PretoriaReuters PRETORIA, Jan 26 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday lauded South Africa’s “bold” participation in the so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership backed by the United States and other Western nations, but steered clear of mentioning U.S. concerns about Pretoria’s planned military drills with China and Russia. Yellen…
By Reality Check team BBC News Videos said to show that rocks found in Africa can produce electricity have been viewed millions of times online. Some social media users are claiming they could be the answer to the continent’s energy problems. That’s a big claim, so we’ve shown the footage to experts who’ve explained to…
The move comes after the Sahel country’s military rulers demanded that Paris withdraw its forces. France will withdraw its troops from Burkina Faso within a month after the West African country’s military rulers asked it to leave, the French foreign ministry said, in a move that will further reduce its presence in a region facing…
By Rédaction Africanews MAURITANIA The trial of former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz opened Wednesday in Nouakchott, offering the exceptional image of a former head of state placed in a cage-like box to answer for illicit enrichment. Tried for abusing his power to amass a huge fortune, the man who led from 2008 to…
SABC | @SABCNews The African National Congress (ANC) has described the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) reason for marching to the governing party’s headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg as a misplaced agenda. The DA will march later on Wednesday morning against what it calls the country’s ANC-engineered energy crisis. Eskom is currently implementing stages three and four rolling…
Horisani Sithole | @SABCNews Several streets in the Johannesburg CBD will be closed ahead of the Democratic Alliance (DA) march on Wednesday morning. The party will head to the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters, Luthuli House, in Johannesburg, to protest against rolling blackouts. The DA has accused the ANC of engineering the country’s energy crisis. The official opposition…
By MOHAMMED MOMOH Abuja At least 214 fleeing Boko Haram fighters have surrendered to Nigerian troops in the country’s north east following a deadly clash with the rival Islamic State of the West African Province (Iswap) that claimed many lives. Reports say that Iswap terrorists carried out the reprisal attacks on Boko Haram fighters on…
By CARA ANNA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rwanda has fired on a Congolese military aircraft it alleges violated its airspace in a new escalation of tensions between the neighbors that has set off alarm across central Africa. A Rwandan government statement said “defensive measures” were taken against a Sukhoi-25 from Congo on Tuesday evening, and it urged…
By ED DAVEY An independent investigation into logging in the Liberian rainforest found illegal operations “on a significant scale,” with multiple missteps or breaches of law by the government agency charged with protecting those forests, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press. The report was completed in 2020 but has…
By Rédaction Africanews IVORY COAST Ivory Coast on Tuesday handed out top awards for 49 soldiers whose detention by Mali triggered a bitter diplomatic spat between the two West African nations. The troops had been arrested at Bamako airport in July. Mali accused them of being mercenaries, while Ivory Coast and the United Nations said…