Libya’s top diplomat on Monday called for the departure of foreign forces and mercenaries from the North African country as it heads toward elections later this year. Najla al-Manqoush, the foreign minister of Libya’s interim government, made the appeal during a news conference with her Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, in Tripoli. She urged Turkey to…
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Attack by ‘bandits’ in the Tahoua region near Mali’s border also wounds six other soldiers. Sixteen Nigerien soldiers were killed and another was missing after an ambush on a military patrol in the Tahoua region near the border with Mali. During the attack by “bandits” on Saturday, the toll was “16 dead, six injured and…
Progress, development and peace are the fundamentals for a bright future for the African continent, Dr. Mo Ibrahim told Africanews. “Democracy and rule of law are very important and we really need to pay a lot of attention to them. But this is not the whole story. People cannot eat democracy,” he said. “If we…
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s move to impose a “state of siege” on two violence-wracked eastern provinces brought praise on Saturday from local leaders but also sparked concern in a country where the army faces allegations of rights abuses. President Felix Tshisekedi had said Thursday he was preparing “radical measures” for the mineral-rich east, where…
Two weeks after the death of Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno, the ruling junta, led by his son Mahamat Idriss Deby, appointed a transitional government on Sunday to address international and domestic concerns. Since its establishment following the sudden death of the head of state, the Transitional Military Council (TMC), chaired by Mahamat Idriss Déby…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany aims to start returning Benin Bronzes to Nigeria next year, its foreign and culture ministries said, part of a growing trend to return cultural artefacts seized during the colonial era to their places of origin. Britain’s soldiers seized thousands of metal castings and sculptures in 1897 during a raid on the…
By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has detected the Indian variant of the novel coronavirus, igniting fears the East African nation could suffer a resurgence of cases just when its outbreak has waned, a senior health official said on Friday. “Yes, we have got one individual who has that variant,” Pontiano Kaleebu, head of…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa claimed Thursday there was “nothing sinister” about the funding for his 2017 political campaign to become president of the ruling party, the African National Congress. Ramaphosa was testifying for a second day before the judicial inquiry investigating allegations of corruption in government and state-owned companies during the tenure of his…
France’s Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire visits a portion of the future route of the Abidjan metro and the reconstruction site of the Felix Houphouet Boigny bridge, over which the future metro route passes. The construction has been entrusted to a group of companies led by the French company Bouygues for 1.36…