Twenty-six migrants who set sail from Guinea have died off the coast of Senegal when their boat sank, Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah said Friday, adding that his West African country was experiencing a  migration “haemorrhage”.”We have officially recorded around 26 deaths so far,” with most of the victims leaving from the Matam district of …
Chadian soldiers deployed on Friday in large numbers across several districts of the capital after late-night celebrations marked the presidential election victory of junta leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.Even before the official results gave Deby more than 61 percent in Monday’s ballot, the presidential guard had parked many armoured vehicles on major junctions and …
The death toll from a building collapse in South Africa climbed Friday to 12 with 40 people still unaccounted for, four days after the structure came crashing down.The tragedy struck Monday afternoon when an apartment block under construction crumbled while a crew of 81 were on site in the southern city of George.Authorities said three …
S.Africa building collapse death toll rises to 12Fri, 10 May 2024 13:22:50 GMT Read More »
Chadian soldiers deployed on Friday in large numbers across several districts of the capital after late-night celebrations marked the presidential election victory of junta leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.Even before the official results gave Deby more than 61 percent in Monday’s ballot, the presidential guard had parked many armoured vehicles on major junctions and …
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle visited Nigeria on Friday as part of his promotion of the Invictus Games, the sporting event he founded for wounded military veterans.The couple arrived Friday in the Nigerian capital Abuja where they visited a school to open an event on mental health for students there.Greeted by a drum …
Prince Harry, Meghan visit NigeriaFri, 10 May 2024 11:57:42 GMT Read More »
Abdi Hussein sat alone on a Kenyan road strewn with ramshackle tents bound with plastic strings and covered with tarpaulins, peering into the sea of rust-coloured flood water.The deluge had claimed his livelihood, his home and his wife, leaving the 32-year-old bereft as he pondered what was left of his life.”It has been like the …
In the heart of Cotonou’s large Dantokpa market, Diane Makpenon’s family corn shop is less busy than usual these days.The business run by her mother like others in Benin’s economic capital has been slowing down as they struggle with rising prices.The price of a kilo (2.2 pounds) of corn, one of the country’s most widely …
In Benin, tensions soar over cost of livingFri, 10 May 2024 05:57:16 GMT Read More »
Chad’s junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno won this week’s presidential election in the first round, according to provisional official results released Thursday, extending his family’s decades-long grip on power.Monday’s vote aimed to end three years of military rule in a country crucial to the fight against jihadism across Africa’s Sahel desert region.The ANGE electoral …
Chad junta chief Deby wins presidential voteFri, 10 May 2024 03:51:45 GMT Read More »
South Africa’s top court will hear an appeal on Friday to have former president Jacob Zuma declared ineligible in a politically charged legal showdown set to raise tensions before the tightest election in decades.Zuma, 82, is fronting a new opposition party that has become a potential disrupter in the May 29 general election.But electoral authorities have …
S. Africa’s top court hears critical Zuma election caseFri, 10 May 2024 02:24:35 GMT Read More »
His father ruled Chad for three decades with an iron fist and Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has now consolidated the family dynasty with his victory in the presidential election announced on Thursday.Yet the young general appeared timid, his gaze fleeting, when the army announced his father Idriss Deby Itno had been killed en route to …
Chad’s new strongman follows father’s footstepsThu, 09 May 2024 22:09:10 GMT Read More »
