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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez unveiled Thursday a new three-year strategic plan to boost Madrid’s economic and diplomatic ties with Africa and develop “legal channels” for migration.The move comes as Spain is struggling to curb a surge in irregular migrant arrivals by boat in Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic, mainly from Western Africa.”Our country …

Spain PM unveils strategy to boost Africa tiesThu, 05 Dec 2024 17:15:22 GMT Read More »

In a carnival of drums, horns, flags and revving motorbikes, Ghana’s ruling party and opposition candidates rallied supporters for the last campaign on Thursday before a tightly contested presidential election.Saturday’s vote has emerged into a close race between ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, current Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, and former president and NDC party …

Ghana rivals hold final election rallies in tight raceThu, 05 Dec 2024 17:10:25 GMT Read More »

Sierra Leone on Thursday started injecting the first of thousands of frontline workers with a preventive Ebola vaccine, a decade after the disease ravaged parts of West Africa killing more than 11,000 people.Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were the worst-affected countries 10 years ago, in what was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus was …

S.Leone launches nationwide Ebola vaccination a decade after outbreakThu, 05 Dec 2024 17:07:41 GMT Read More »

Ryan Rickelton made a battling century as South Africa overcame a shaky start on the first day of the second Test against Sri Lanka at St George’s Park on Thursday.The left-handed Rickelton hit 101 as South Africa reached 269 for seven at the close.Rickelton, 28, has been a peripheral figure in the South African Test …

Rickelton hits first Test ton for South Africa against Sri LankaThu, 05 Dec 2024 17:04:25 GMT Read More »

Namibia’s first woman president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Thursday said her victory in a disputed vote last week had broken a “glass ceiling”.The vice-president secured just past 57 percent of the vote, well ahead of the candidate for the main opposition Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) on 25.5 percent, the election authority announced on Tuesday.Yet the …

Namibia’s first woman president says ‘breaks glass ceiling’Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:50:13 GMT Read More »

Togo will hold its first elections for the upper house of parliament, the senate, on February 2, one of the last steps towards implementing a contested new constitution, the government said on Thursday.The overhaul abolishes the election of the head of state by universal suffrage and introduces a parliamentary system.It has been slammed by opposition …

Togo to elect first senate in February under constitution overhaulThu, 05 Dec 2024 12:48:43 GMT Read More »

UNESCO on Wednesday welcomed attieke, the quintessential dish of Ivory Coast, and the skills involved in making the fermented ground cassava meal into its list of humanity’s intangible cultural heritage.Pronounced “atchekay”, attieke looks a tad like couscous, takes a couple of days to make from scratch and is a mainstay staple all over the country …

Ivory Coast staple cassava meal gains UNESCO heritage statusThu, 05 Dec 2024 01:18:53 GMT Read More »

Six bodies have been extracted over the past two days from an abandoned mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa, where hundreds of clandestine miners are still underground, a community leader told AFP Wednesday.”Six bodies were retrieved in two days, four today and two yesterday,” said Johannes Qankase, a spokesman for the nearby …

Six bodies pulled from illegal South African goldmineWed, 04 Dec 2024 20:11:18 GMT Read More »

Joe Biden on Wednesday lauded a landmark railway infrastructure project aimed at countering China’s investments in Africa as a “game changer” while on a historic first visit to Angola by a US president.On the second day of his trip to the former Portuguese colony, Biden said the “Lobito Corridor”, a major railway route that should …

Biden hails ‘game changer’ Africa investment on Angola visitWed, 04 Dec 2024 17:02:22 GMT Read More »

Emerging filmmakers from Africa and the Arab world gathered in Marrakesh this week for a series of workshops to refine their film projects, secure funding and build industry connections.Held during the Marrakech International Film Festival, the Atlas Workshops brought together filmmakers from 13 countries working on projects at various stages of development. “Having it (the workshops) …

‘Creating connections’: Arab, African filmmakers gather at Morocco workshopsWed, 04 Dec 2024 15:53:05 GMT Read More »