French Foreign Affairs Minister, Jean-Yves Le drian announced on Monday, French troops would continue fighting terrorism in Sahel but no longer in Mali French troops will remain mobilized in the Sahel region but no longer in Mali. That is what Jean-Yves Ledrian, France’s Foreign affairs minister, announced after a virtual meeting with European counterparts, on…
Stephanie Williams meets separately with interim premier and prime minister-designate. TRIPOLI, Libya The UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Libya, Stephanie Williams, discussed the latest developments in the country in separate meetings Sunday with interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and Prime Minister-designate Fathi Bashagha. According to the Libyan government’s official Twitter account, Williams and Dbeibeh…
50 children killed, including 12 girls, and 169 suffered sexual violence, says report. KIGALI, Rwanda Armed groups in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo recruited more than 470 children into their ranks last year, the UN’s Radio Okapi reported Sunday. Fifty of the children were killed, including 12 girls, and 169 suffered…
Labor Minister Gisele Ranampy temporarily appointed to post. DAKAR, Senegal Madagascar’s justice minister has resigned from his post in the wake of a corruption scandal. In a statement issued by the presidency, it was noted that Imbiki Herilaza submitted his resignation and Labor Minister Gisele Ranampy will assume his post temporarily. Last week, records of…
The next generation of shots will offer a broader and more robust immune response. Plus, why it is important to monitor known HIV variants. The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) continues to be a global threat. Millions of lives have been lost to the illness and many continue to suffer…
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 11 (Reuters) – South Africa’s economic recovery remains fragile and growth is expected to hold below 2% in the medium term because of policy uncertainty, high public debt and constraints to investment, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday. In a statement issued at the end of discussions with South Africa, the…
Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on Thursday accused a former Guinean navy chief with links to the drug trade and two accomplices of being behind a failed coup in the west African nation on February 1. Heavily armed men attacked government buildings in the capital Bissau while Embalo was chairing a cabinet meeting. Embalo, 49, later told…
More than 200 judges and lawyers in black robes protested Thursday outside the main court in the Tunisian capital after President Kais Saied vowed to scrap a key judicial watchdog. Judges have been on strike since Wednesday in the North African country, the birthplace of the 2011 Arab uprisings, in protest at Saied’s weekend move to dissolve the…
Four civilians were caught in cross fire after French troops supported with an attack helicopter killed 10 Islamist militants in Burkina Faso, the French military said in a statement on Thursday. France has thousands of troops operating across the Sahel region as part of a mission to combat violence by Islamist militant groups linked to al…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a state of the nation address on Thursday promising “decisive” action to stem corruption, as he faces demands for a plan to reverse widening disillusionment with his government. State corruption, a flagging economy, staggering unemployment, rampant crime and last year’s riots topped a long list of woes facing the…