Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said in an end-of-year speech that French forces will withdraw from the West African nation in January, making it the latest country to weaken military ties with the former colonial power.  Ouattara said late on Tuesday that Ivory Coast could be proud of its army “whose modernisation is now effective.”It is …
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said in an end-of-year speech that French forces will withdraw from the West African nation in January, making it the latest country to weaken military ties with the former colonial power.  “We can be proud of our army, whose modernization is now effective. It is in this context that we have …
Senegal’s President Bassirou Dioumaye Faye said that 2025 would see an end to all foreign military presence in the west African country, in a speech on Tuesday to mark the new year.Faye’s statement came a month after he announced that former colonial master France would have to close its military bases in Senegal.”I have instructed …
Revellers across the world ushered in 2025 on Wednesday, with huge crowds waving goodbye to the old year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return, and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine.It is all but certain that 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record, with climate-fuelled disasters wreaking havoc …
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will commute to jail time the sentences of about 60 prisoners on death row.There has been a moratorium on executions in the southern African country since 2005 although courts have continued to hand down the death sentence for …
Zimbabwe abolishes the death penaltyTue, 31 Dec 2024 19:10:17 GMT Read More »
Crowds will marvel at fireworks and toast champagne to greet 2025 on Tuesday, waving goodbye to a year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine.It is all but certain that 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record, with climate-fuelled disasters wreaking havoc …
One Mozambique family is mourning a 16-year-old girl shot dead on Christmas Day; another is devastated over the loss of a 22-year-old son, brother and breadwinner killed on the sidelines of a protest weeks earlier.Both deaths are blamed on security forces, like many of the nearly 280 lives lost in more than two months of …
The dance world mourned Tuesday the internationally acclaimed South African dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo, who died in hospital at the weekend aged 39. Â Masilo died unexpectedly on Sunday after a brief illness, a spokesperson for her family said in a statement.Born in Soweto, she was described as a sprite-like, energetic dancer and a fearless …
The wall was tagged with graffiti above 22-year-old Sidi’s bed in the lone psychiatric hospital in Mauritania, a country whose mental health system is as sparse as its desert landscapes.”Stress kills your neurons,” said the message scrawled in room 13, one of just 20 beds available for psychiatric patients in the African country of five …
Patients brave mental health desert in MauritaniaTue, 31 Dec 2024 07:28:43 GMT Read More »
The death toll from a road accident in southern Ethiopia has risen to at least 71 after a vehicle carrying a wedding party veered into a river, a local official said.The truck careered into the water at around 5:30 pm local time (1430 GMT) on Sunday some 300 kilometres (180 miles) south of the capital …
More than 70 killed in Ethiopia road accidentMon, 30 Dec 2024 18:07:08 GMT Read More »
