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Columns of M23 fighters allied with Rwandan troops on Sunday entered the centre of another key city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the African Union highlighted growing fears that the strife-torn country could break up.Scores of people have fled since the fighters reached outlying districts of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province, …

M23 seize key city as fears of DR Congo breakup mountSun, 16 Feb 2025 20:09:14 GMT Read More »

Uganda’s government on Sunday said it would drop a military trial against opposition figurehead Kizza Besigye, urging him to give up his hunger strike in jail, a minister said.The pledge was promptly rejected as “suspicious” by Besigye’s wife, UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima.Besigye, a former ally turned rival of longtime President Yoweri Museveni, went on …

Uganda govt offers to drop military trial of hunger-striking opponentSun, 16 Feb 2025 18:13:58 GMT Read More »

Columns of M23 fighters allied with Rwandan troops on Sunday entered the centre of another key city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the African Union highlighted growing fears that the strife-torn country could break up.The fighters reached outlying districts of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province, on Friday. The fall of the city of …

M23 seize key city amid mounting fears of DR Congo breakupSun, 16 Feb 2025 18:10:04 GMT Read More »

Police in Mauritius on Sunday arrested the island’s former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe and seized stacks of cash in raids on fellow suspects’ homes, officials said.Officers detained the 63-year-old along with his wife Kobita Jugnauth on Saturday and questioned them for several hours, police sources who asked not to be named …

Mauritius ex-PM arrested in money-laundering probe: policeSun, 16 Feb 2025 09:14:55 GMT Read More »

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday demanded the Democratic Republic of Congo’s “territorial integrity” be respected and a regional war avoided, at an African summit the day after Rwandan-backed fighters seized a second DRC provincial capital.With international pressure mounting on Rwanda to curb the fighting in eastern DR Congo (DRC), the conflict was set to …

UN chief warns against regional war over DR Congo at Africa summitSat, 15 Feb 2025 21:13:47 GMT Read More »

Preston forward Milutin Osmajic found himself in a fresh Lancashire derby row on Saturday after making an allegedly racist remark towards Burnley midfielder Hannibal Mejbri.Montenegro international Osmajic appeared to say something to Mejbri during the goalless English second-tier match at Deepdale that angered the former Manchester United midfielder, who then informed Clarets boss Scott Parker …

Burnley’s Mejbri accuses Preston’s Osmajic of racismSat, 15 Feb 2025 18:30:50 GMT Read More »

In the hustle and bustle of Yaounde, Quartier Mozart is a unique artists’ refuge, which its creator hopes will free Cameroonians from the “self-censorship” they say is fuelled by the political status quo. The lower level of the industrial-looking loft is sometimes a cinema or a concert hall. At other times it is a restaurant with …

Artists try to make Cameroon sing a different tuneSat, 15 Feb 2025 06:36:30 GMT Read More »

The escalating conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo will dominate an African Union summit opening Saturday, with the DRC president absent after Rwandan-backed forces seized a second major city on his territory.The 55-nation body meets in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa as Africa faces devastating conflicts in the DRC and Sudan — as well as …

African Union summit opens, overshadowed by DR Congo conflictSat, 15 Feb 2025 03:01:26 GMT Read More »

Engineer turned social entrepreneur Sabri Cheriha hunches over a washing machine at a small depot in a suburb of Tunisia’s capital, the unassuming home of a startup he launched to tackle the country’s mounting electronic waste problem.Cheriha said there were currently about eight million household appliances and nine million cellphones in use across Tunisia, but …

Tunisian startup takes on e-waste challengeFri, 14 Feb 2025 20:03:15 GMT Read More »

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian sources said.The fighters and their Rwandan allies entered the eastern city of around one million people, the capital of South Kivu province, meeting virtually no resistance after having seized the region’s main airport, the sources said.Congolese President …

M23 fighters, Rwandan troops enter DR Congo’s Bukavu: SourcesFri, 14 Feb 2025 19:55:37 GMT Read More »