Uncertainty still surrounds which country will host next year’s UN climate conference: Australia or Turkey. But for 2027, there’s little mystery: it will almost certainly be Ethiopia, an African diplomatic powerhouse.The news broke on the second day of COP30, the 30th UN climate change conference held in Belem, in the Brazilian Amazon.Richard Muyungi, chair of …
Authorities in Guinea on Tuesday officially launched production at Simandou, a gigantic mining project that they hope will propel the poor west African country into the ranks of the world’s largest iron exporters.The long-awaited launch took place at a ceremony attended by the head of Guinea’s junta, General Mamady Doumbouya, south of Conakry at the …
Fanfare as Guinea launches enormous Simandou iron ore mineTue, 11 Nov 2025 15:43:51 GMT Read More »
Since September, jihadists affiliated with Al-Qaeda have imposed a fuel blockade on Mali and a total blockade on several towns, wreaking havoc on the west African nation.Here’s what we know about the situation, which is pushing the ruling junta to its limits in the landlocked Sahelian nation that is heavily dependent on imports.- Roads controlled …
What we know about Mali and its two-month fuel blockadeTue, 11 Nov 2025 14:57:11 GMT Read More »
It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher.When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered the city in late October, Abderahmane was at the Saudi hospital, watching over his father, a soldier in the regular …
Fatima gripped her newborn tightly against her chest as the Tuareg woman queued beneath the scorching Mauritanian afternoon sun to register herself and her child as refugees.She was forced to flee the Malian town of Lere, near the border with Mauritania, after her community came under a total blockade by jihadists some two weeks ago.Dressed …
“Sixteen killed.” “Seven killed.” “Thirty-one killed.” “People are eating cowhide to survive.” “The bombs are getting closer.” “They’re shooting people trying to run away.”These were the grim updates shared with AFP’s veteran Sudan correspondent Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali by people trapped in the 18-month-long siege of El-Fasher, a city overrun by the paramilitary Rapid Support …
The Sudanese who told the world what happened in El-FasherMon, 10 Nov 2025 14:14:46 GMT Read More »
A daughter of former South Africa president Jacob Zuma pleaded not guilty at the start of her trial Monday to charges of inciting 2021 riots that left more than 350 people dead.Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, 43, is accused of inciting terrorism and public violence via social media after her father was sent to prison in July 2021 …
Hundreds gathered for a church service in Tanzania on Monday to pray for those killed by security forces during election violence, with the archbishop saying the country had “lost its dignity”.President Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared the winner of the October 29 poll with 98 percent of the vote, but the election sparked widespread protests …
Sylvia Bongo, whose husband was ousted as Gabon’s leader in a 2023 coup, went on trial for graft on Monday, with the exiled former first lady the highest-profile absentee.Bongo, the 62-year-old wife of Ali Bongo, whose family ruled the central African country with an iron fist for 55 years, is accused of manipulating her husband …
With reports of heavy weapons fire and drone strikes in northern Ethiopia over the past week, there are fears the region is returning to the devastating warfare it experienced between 2020 and 2022.AFP looks at the latest flaring of violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Afar regions, which threatens to upend a fragile peace deal.- What …
What we know on renewed fighting in north EthiopiaMon, 10 Nov 2025 12:34:31 GMT Read More »
