Leaders from across Africa attending high-level talks in St Petersburg, with food security and Ukraine war high on the agenda. By Virginia Pietromarchi Vladimir Putin in on a charm offensive. On Thursday, the Russian president will roll out the red carpet for African leaders as he seeks to shore up Moscow’s position in a continent that’s…
By Rédaction Africanews and Euronews with AP NIGER Mutinous soldiers claimed to have overthrown Niger’s democratically elected president, announcing on state television late Wednesday that they have put an end to the government over the African country’s deteriorating security. The soldiers said all institutions had been suspended and security forces were managing the situation. The mutineers urged external partners…
By Philip Andrew Churm with AFP SENEGAL Twenty-four people, including four children have died in a bus crash in northern Senegal. The bus had been coming from a town in the north of the country on 26 July and was reportedly “overcrowded” with 76 people on board; 16 more than the permitted number. Senegalese Interior…
By AFP Western nations fear an economic collapse in Tunisia could trigger even greater migrant flows to Europe and have offered financial assistance. Yet prospects of Tunisia’s sealing the biggest deal of all — a $1.9-billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund — seem increasingly remote. The inflation-ravaged and heavily indebted country reached a tentative…
West Africa recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences, and a top regional official said Tuesday that’s just “a snippet of the horrendous impact of insecurity.” Text by : NEWS WIRES Omar Touray told the UN Security Council that half…
By Frank Gardner BBC News The UK government has been sharply criticised by the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) for under-estimating the dangerous growth of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group. In a scathing report, the cross-party committee of MPs accused the government of what it called “a dismal lack of understanding” of Wagner’s activities in Africa.…
By Laurence Peter BBC News More than 40 people have died in Algeria, Italy and Greece as Mediterranean wildfires threaten villages and holiday resorts, and thousands have been evacuated. Greece is preparing for more evacuation flights from Rhodes, as fires also rage on the islands of Corfu and Evia. The current long heatwave shows no…
Ghana’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, joining a long list of African countries that have done so in recent years. The country currently has 170 men and six women on death row, whose sentences will now be replaced by life imprisonment. The last execution took place in 1993. Execution has been the…
By Nduka Orjinmo BBC News, Abuja Nigeria’s once-powerful central bank chief has been charged with illegally owning a shotgun and hundreds of cartridges, marking a spectacular fall for a man who has long been at the centre of the nation’s politics and finances. Godwin Emefiele appeared in court on Tuesday, six weeks after he was…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP SOUTH AFRICA **Top national security officials from South Africa, China, Russia, India and Brazil were set to advance among other things their common “BRICS agenda and cooperation on security-related matters”, Minister In Presidency responsible for State Security Agency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said. The South African official welcomed her counterparts on Tuesday (Jul. 25) for…