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Nigeria’s Dangote refinery, Africa’s largest, has finally begun delivering petrol, a game changer for the oil-rich country that frequently faces gasoline shortages.The oft-delayed 650,000-barrel-a-day refinery built by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote began producing diesel and aviation fuel in January, but the OPEC member has had to rely on costly gasoline imports to keep cars running …

Nigeria’s Dangote refinery begins petrol deliveriesSun, 15 Sep 2024 16:10:51 GMT Read More »

A man who attacked Comoros President Azali Assoumani with a knife, wounding him slightly, has been found dead in prison in unclear circumstances, the public prosecutor said on Saturday. The attack took place on Friday afternoon during a funeral for a well-known religious leader in Salimani-Itsandra, a village near the capital Moroni. Prosecutor Ali Mohamed Djounaid said …

Comoros president’s attacker found dead in prison: prosecutorSat, 14 Sep 2024 18:02:36 GMT Read More »

Ugandans on Saturday paid tributes to Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after her partner set her on fire in Kenya, finally burying her near her family village.  The 33-year-old, who debuted this summer in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics, succumbed to severe burns last week after being attacked by Kenyan Dickson Ndiema Marangach. The …

Uganda holds funeral for murdered Olympian CheptegeiSat, 14 Sep 2024 16:41:13 GMT Read More »

Ursula Felkers moved to “Tin Can Town” in 2007 after being evicted from an apartment near the centre of Cape Town when a new landlord took over. She thought she would only be in Blikkiesdorp — where row upon row of shacks stand on a desolate plot next to Cape Town’s international airport — for a …

Poor squeezed out by Cape Town housing shortageSat, 14 Sep 2024 05:30:07 GMT Read More »

Uganda on Saturday will lay to rest Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei, who died earlier this month after her partner set her on fire in the latest incident of horrific gender-based violence in Kenya.The 33-year-old, who debuted this summer in the women’s marathon at the Paris Olympics, succumbed to severe burns last week after being attacked by …

Uganda to bury murdered Olympian CheptegeiSat, 14 Sep 2024 02:06:01 GMT Read More »

A United Nations official returning from Sudan described on Friday how women and girls fleeing the civil war there had been “stripped bare of their basic necessities,” struggling for food, water and safety.”We all know that war is ugly, but this is one of the ugliest situations that I have ever witnessed in my entire …

UN official says Sudan IDP women in desperate need of protectionFri, 13 Sep 2024 20:39:11 GMT Read More »

South Sudan said Friday that long-awaited elections would be postponed for a further two years, once again extending a transitional period agreed in a peace deal.Citizens have waited to elect their leaders since the country achieved its hard-won independence from Sudan in 2011, with the world’s newest nation still dogged by violence, poverty and political …

South Sudan postpones elections, extends transitional periodFri, 13 Sep 2024 20:13:22 GMT Read More »

Three Americans were among 37 people sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday over what the army says was a coup attempt.The court in Kinshasa remained silent as the verdicts were read, with defendants dressed in blue and yellow prison uniforms and seated on plastic chairs, their faces sombre.Death sentences were …

Foreigners among dozens sentenced to death in DR Congo ‘coup’ trialFri, 13 Sep 2024 20:11:36 GMT Read More »

Senegal will vote in snap parliamentary elections in mid-November after President Bassirou Diomaye Faye dissolved the opposition-dominated chamber, a move he’s banking on to implement his policy agenda.Faye swept to presidential victory on March 24 with a promise of a radical change, following three years of turmoil and a political crisis.Along with his Prime Minister …

Senegal set for snap elections after parliament dissolvedFri, 13 Sep 2024 17:50:31 GMT Read More »

The US trial on torture charges of a Gambian man who was allegedly a member of a notorious death squad known as the “Junglers” has been postponed at the last minute.Michael Sang Correa, 45, a former captain in the Gambian military, was scheduled to go on trial in a federal court in Denver, Colorado, on …

US trial of alleged Gambian ‘death squad’ member postponedFri, 13 Sep 2024 17:36:17 GMT Read More »