On a humid Tuesday night in Accra, Zen Garden is alive with sound, movement and memory as Highlife melodies spill into the open air, drawing families, friends and office workers who sway long past midnight as if the weekend has come early. Under soft lights, the four young men of the Kwan Pa band strike layered …
Ghana’s Highlife finds its rhythm on UNESCO world stageWed, 17 Dec 2025 11:18:53 GMT Read More »
Abdoul Aziz Balde sobbed as he spoke of his son Idrissa, who left Guinea in search of a better future, but has not been heard from since capsizing off the Moroccan coast.”I know that the boat my son was on sank, but we haven’t been shown his body, so to say that the boy is …
South African authorities have arrested and will expel seven Kenyans accused of working without the correct documentation on a US government programme to accept white Afrikaners as “refugees”, the home affairs department 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 …
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sharply expanded a travel ban by barring people from seven more countries including Syria, as well as Palestinian Authority passport holders, from entering the United States.The latest move brings to nearly 40 the number of countries whose citizens face restrictions in coming to the United States solely by virtue …
The M23 armed group said Tuesday it would withdraw from the key city of Uvira in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the request of Washington, which vowed “action” over the “clear violation” of a US-brokered peace accord.The Rwanda-backed militia seized the strategic city near the border with Burundi last Wednesday, days after the …
Thousands of Afrikaners, descendants of the first European settlers in South Africa, celebrated on Tuesday the “Day of the Vow” — a founding myth with values shared by US President Donald Trump’s administration, which has offered the group protection.On a hill overlooking the capital Pretoria, an announcer boasted that some 37,000 Afrikaners had gathered at …
Military rulers in west Africa’s Sahel region may well have celebrated had a recent coup attempt in Benin resulted in another anti-Western junta in their neighbourhood, analysts said.Not least because Benin lies on the coast and access to ports is crucial for landlocked Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger — whose rulers formed the Alliance of …
Sahel juntas would have welcomed a coup in Benin: analystsTue, 16 Dec 2025 13:41:05 GMT Read More »
Benin jailed on Tuesday around 30 people, most of them soldiers, accused of links to a thwarted coup attempt this month, legal sources told AFP, while several mutineers are still on the run.Soldiers appeared on national television on December 7 to announce President Patrice Talon had been deposed but the attempted putsch was swiftly defeated by …
A suicide bomber struck a military position in northeastern Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, killing at least five soldiers, security and local defence sources said.The attacker targeted a military position in Firgi near the town of Pulka in Borno state on Sunday, sources told AFP on Monday night and Tuesday morning.Militants have intensified raids …
A former adviser to Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh said Tuesday he will run against him in April elections, denouncing “democratic backsliding” in the small but highly strategic Horn of Africa nation.Djibouti has been ruled with an iron fist since 1999 by 77-year-old Guelleh, known as “IOG”, with the removal of a constitutional age limit …
Former adviser to stand against Djibouti’s strongman leaderTue, 16 Dec 2025 08:15:52 GMT Read More »
