Outspoken on same-sex blessings and immigration, Robert Sarah of Guinea is a leading figure among conservative Catholic cardinals seeking a break with the late Pope Francis.At 79, Sarah is one of the oldest cardinals taking part in next week’s conclave — and almost missed out taking part as he turns 80 on June 15, an …
Gabon’s President-elect Brice Oligui Nguema who led a coup ending decades of Bongo family rule and swept polls last month with nearly 95 percent of the vote will be sworn in Saturday.The general and former junta leader, who toppled Ali Bongo in August 2023 ending 55 years of dynastic rule by the Bongo family, officially …
Gabon to swear in ex-junta chief Oligui as presidentSat, 03 May 2025 03:51:35 GMT Read More »
Lawyers are probing “dire” workplace conditions for Meta content moderators in Ghana, attorneys involved in the investigation told AFP, in what could turn into the latest dispute over the social media giant’s labour practices in Africa.Content moderators including those in Ghana have long had to contend with a harrowing work environment as they scrub posts …
Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a new pope as preparations proceed just five days before cardinals gather for the conclave.Some 133 Catholic cardinals will gather below Michelangelo’s famed frescoes in the 15th-century chapel, situated inside the Apostolic Palace at the …
Vatican chimney installed ahead of papal conclaveFri, 02 May 2025 13:36:50 GMT Read More »
A South African court found a woman guilty Friday of trafficking her six-year-old daughter who has been missing for more than a year, in a case that has outraged the nation.The two-month trial heard statements from various witnesses that Racquel “Kelly” Smith had revealed to them that she had sold her daughter Joshlin in February …
S.African mother found guilty of selling young daughterFri, 02 May 2025 12:26:24 GMT Read More »
Uganda’s main opposition leader, Bobi Wine, said on Friday the army had raided his party’s headquarters, hours after the head of the army claimed to have abducted Wine’s bodyguard and was torturing him “in his basement”.There has been a mounting crackdown on the opposition ahead of the general election in January and the moves come …
Tunisian environmentalist Semia Labidi Gharbi, awarded a global prize for her role exposing a major waste scandal, has a message for wealthy nations: developing countries are “no dumping ground”.Gharbi was among the first to speak out when Italy shipped more than 280 containers of waste to the North African country in 2020.The cargo was initially …
Kehinde Sanni spends his days smoothing out dents and repainting scratched bumpers in a modest autobody shop in Lagos. He has never left Nigeria, yet he speaks glowingly of Ibrahim Traore, the military leader of Burkina Faso.”Nigeria needs someone like Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso. He’s doing well for his country,” Sanni said.His admiration is shaped …
In war-ravaged Khartoum donkey carts clatter over worn asphalt, the smell of tomatoes wafts from newly reopened stalls and pedestrians dodge burnt-out cars left by two years of war.Life is slowly, cautiously returning to the Sudanese capital, weeks after the army recaptured the city from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who had held it …
Sudan capital tiptoes back to life after recapture by armyFri, 02 May 2025 04:19:46 GMT Read More »
Malian political parties, fearing their dissolution by the ruling junta, are raising their voices despite a crackdown on dissent and a shrinking civic space.The military announced on Wednesday the repeal of a charter which sets out the creation and function of political parties, in what legal experts said could be another move towards scrapping them …
