Ethiopian running legend Kenenisa Bekele will return to the Olympics for the first time in 12 years after he was named in a 10-member team for the Paris Games on Thursday.Bekele, 41, last competed in the Games in London in 2012 when he finished fourth in the men’s 10,000m before being overlooked for the 2016 …
Ethiopian legend Bekele returns to Olympics after 12 yearsThu, 16 May 2024 19:49:48 GMT Read More »
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday criticised foreign “interference” after an international backlash over recent arrests of journalists, political commentators, and lawyers, which he defended as lawful.Civil society in the North African country condemned the arrests as a crackdown on dissent in the country that saw the onset of the Arab Spring.Saied, who seized sweeping …
Tunisia president blasts foreign criticism of arrestsThu, 16 May 2024 17:10:32 GMT Read More »
A Nigerian state lawmaker’s plan to sponsor the marriage of 100 brides orphaned by violence has sparked a row over religious and cultural norms and calls for the courts to intervene.Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, the speaker of the local assembly in northwest Niger State, planned to support the marriage of the orphans, who have all lost relatives …
Generations of schoolchildren have grown up being taught that Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria.But the director of a new film about the pioneering women’s rights activist told AFP that the anecdote offered a very limited view of Ransome-Kuti’s achievements. “She is so much more,” said Bolanle Austen-Peters, whose acclaimed …
Nigerian women’s rights pioneer celebrated in new biopicThu, 16 May 2024 15:09:09 GMT Read More »
Hundreds of lawyers, activists and others demonstrated on Thursday in the Tunisian capital over the arrest of two lawyers in police raids on the national bar association, AFP journalists said.Protesters gathered near the main courthouse in Tunis as police barred journalists from entering the building at the behest of the prosecutor, reporters were told.Inside, black-robed lawyers …
Tunisia lawyers protest after colleagues arrestedThu, 16 May 2024 12:43:21 GMT Read More »
Eight men have submitted their candidacies for Mauritania’s June 29 presidential election, including incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani and his jailed predecessor Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who was previously ruled out of the race, according to an AFP count.Prospective contenders had until midnight on Wednesday (0000 GMT Thursday) to register their candidacies.Aziz led the pivotal country …
A US delegation is discussing the withdrawal of its troops from military-led Niger as Washington prepares to abandon its strategic position in the Sahel where Russia and Iran are gaining ground.The demand for US troops to exit comes after French troops were also forced to withdraw last year by Niger’s new ruling generals following a …
US forces lose strategic African position in NigerThu, 16 May 2024 09:32:59 GMT Read More »
Mourners gathered Wednesday for the funerals of victims of an attack on a camp for internally displaced people in eastern DR Congo which the government has called a “war crime”.The funerals were held in Goma, the main city in North Kivu province, which has been plagued by fighting between M23 (March 23 Movement) rebels and …
Funerals held for victims of attack on DR Congo campThu, 16 May 2024 07:49:18 GMT Read More »
Episode 23 of a great African club rivalry unfolds in Tunisia on Saturday when Esperance host Egyptian visitors Al Ahly in the CAF Champions League final first leg.Ahly have won 10 and drawn eight of their 22 meetings in the premier continental competition since first clashing 34 years ago, and are appearing in a record …
Esperance, Ahly resume great African club rivalry in finalThu, 16 May 2024 06:14:31 GMT Read More »
A Swiss federal court on Wednesday sentenced Gambian ex-interior minister Ousman Sonko to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed under the regime of former dictator Yahya Jammeh.Sonko, 55, is the highest-ranking official convicted in Europe under universal jurisdiction for the most serious crimes.He was found guilty of “multiple counts of intentional homicide, …
