After trading run-ins with the former government for the corridors of power, Senegal’s dynamic duo of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko enjoyed a year-long honeymoon.Yet recent attempts at projecting a friendship refreshed have failed to dispel doubts that the west African country’s top political double act, whose rise to power fanned …
Group of 20 president South Africa announced Thursday it had commissioned a Nobel laureate-led team to tackle global inequality and poverty, a push that could revive calls to tax the rich. The six-member team, led by Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, will analyse the impact of wealth and income inequality, and offer practical policy solutions to …
In a Sudanese city long besieged by paramilitary forces, the war has taken an even more violent and terrifying turn, leaving residents facing hunger and death with little chance of escaping.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the regular army since April 2023, has launched its fiercest assault to date on El-Fasher, the …
Besieged Sudan city faces fiercest paramilitary assault yetThu, 28 Aug 2025 15:14:52 GMT Read More »
A prominent French sports journalist sentenced to seven years in prison in Algeria at the end of June is in “fighting mood” but feels “isolated”, his parents told AFP after visiting their son earlier this month.Christophe Gleizes, who is being held in the city of Tizi Ouzou, is being detained against the background of escalating …
French sports journalist ‘isolated’ in Algeria prisonThu, 28 Aug 2025 10:02:17 GMT Read More »
Its modern architecture complemented by latticework inspired by local Yoruba textiles, Alara, west Africa’s first fashion and design “concept store”, is an imposing sight in Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling economic capital.Founder Reni Folawiyo is now 10 years into forging what she calls “Afro-lux”, Alara serving as a homebase for designs that “play between tradition and modernity”, …
Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns drew 0-0 on Wednesday in the first high-profile match of the South African Premiership season, which failed to match expectations. A sell-out 75,000 crowd came to Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg to watch two of the three most popular clubs in the country.But they left disappointed after a cagey clash that …
Dull deadlock between Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi SundownsWed, 27 Aug 2025 21:21:25 GMT Read More »
Washington’s preferential treatment of white Afrikaners for resettlement into the United States is “apartheid 2.0”, South Africa’s foreign minister said Wednesday.US President Donald Trump’s administration in May offered refugee status to the minority white Afrikaner community, claiming they were victims of discrimination and even “genocide”, which the Pretoria government strongly denies.The “refugee programme is preferential …
A South African court on Wednesday found radical left politician Julius Malema guilty of hate speech for telling his supporters at a 2022 rally that they should “never be scared to kill”.Malema, the firebrand leader of the small opposition and populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, has long been criticised by South Africa’s white minority …
Prominent Kenyan government critic Boniface Mwangi announced Wednesday he would run for president in 2027, just weeks after the east African country’s latest deadly protests.The 42-year-old has fiercely denounced President William Ruto — who has faced wave after wave of rallies condemning his leadership since last year — and argues he was tortured in Tanzanian …
Top Ruto critic announces Kenyan presidential bidWed, 27 Aug 2025 14:39:11 GMT Read More »
Prominent Kenyan activist and staunch government critic Boniface Mwangi announced Wednesday he would run for president in 2027, just weeks after the east African country’s latest protests were bloodily repressed.An outspoken critic of President William Ruto, the 42-year-old made the announcement in the capital Nairobi, where youth-led demonstrations in 2024 sparked waves of rallies across …
