Move comes after military junta declares coup. DAKAR, Senegal Burkina Faso’s president resigned Monday, hours after a military junta seized power in a coup. In his handwritten letter addressed to the new junta administration, Roch Marc Christian Kabore wrote that after the events that took place since Sunday, he decided to resign from all his…
Land route to Tigray via town of Abala inaccessible due to ongoing war. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Ethiopia announced Monday that it has decided to airlift medical and food supplies to its northern Tigray region as deliveries via the town of Abala are blocked due to renewed fighting between Tigray rebels and security forces. Abala is…
Security situation still tense as people still afraid of another attack, says youth leader. JUBA, South Sudan At least 33 people were killed, including four children, in an attack over the weekend on a village in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. Matuor Mabior, secretary general of the Bor Community Youth Association, confirmed Monday to Anadolu Agency…
Ethiopia has been embroiled in an internal war that has claimed thousands of lives. NAIROBI, Kenya The new US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield, met Monday with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in the capital Nairobi. Following their deliberations, Kenya and the US agreed to continue engaging the conflicting parties in Ethiopia…
BAMAKO, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Mali’s government said on Monday it had asked Denmark to immediately withdraw troops deployed to the West African nation as part of a French-led counter-terrorism task force because it was not consulted and the deployment failed to follow protocol. “The government of Mali notes with astonishment, the deployment on its…
At least eight people have been killed and dozens more injured in a crush outside an Africa Cup of Nations football match in Cameroon. Videos showed crowds of screaming football fans being crushed at the entry gates to the Paul Biya stadium in the capital Yaounde. Witnesses described chaotic scenes outside the ground as thousands…
Here’s a look at the events in Burkina Faso, where the military announced Monday that it had seized power. Incidents in demonstrations On Saturday, January 22, 2022, incidents broke out in Ouagadougou and other cities in Burkina Faso between the forces of order and demonstrators who once again defied a ban on gathering to protest…
Economic sanctions placed on Mali by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are causing inflation and food shortages in markets in the capital Bamako FRANCE 24’s James André reports. Sanctions were imposed on January 9 after the military junta that seized power almost 18 months earlier announced plans to extend its rule for five years,…
Female Moroccan university students have broken their silence about professors demanding sexual favors in return for good grades, a scandal that has shaken the higher education system. Testimonies have flooded social media in the style of the #MeToo movement, encouraged by activists in the conservative North African nation where victims of sexual violence often keep…
At least 17 people were killed when a fire set off explosions at a popular nightclub in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, officials said on Sunday. A government statement said the fire erupted at the Livs Nightclub in the Bastos neighbourhood. It added that in addition to the deaths, some people were injured and taken to the…