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Chris Pappas doesn’t look like a typical politician in South Africa’s key electoral battleground, the populous province of KwaZulu-Natal.Thirty years after democracy was won, South Africa’s leadership is still dominated by black veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle.Pappas, however, is a young-looking 32, born more than a year-and-a-half after Nelson Mandela was released from prison — …

The election pitch of South Africa’s white ZuluWed, 07 Feb 2024 06:56:04 GMT Read More »

It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Ghana’s capital Accra. Finally, their catch emerges — a colossal barracuda and a less welcome bounty of bundles of discarded clothing.Where once nets teemed with fish, they are now tangled with tonnes …

Ghana struggling with tsunami of secondhand clothesWed, 07 Feb 2024 03:56:58 GMT Read More »

Senegal’s opposition on Tuesday denounced a “constitutional coup” after parliament voted to delay the presidential election by 10 months, plunging the country into its worst crisis in decades.West African bloc ECOWAS said it “encourages” Senegal, a member state, to urgently restore the electoral timetable, adding it was following events “with concern”.Lawmakers backed postponing this month’s …

Senegal plunged into crisis as opposition blasts ‘democratic bankruptcy’Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:59:39 GMT Read More »

Sitting atop piles of second-hand clothes in Dakar’s teeming Colobane market, salesman Assane Fall said he was “hurting” after the parliament’s decision to postpone Senegal’s presidential election.Like many residents of the capital interviewed by AFP on Tuesday, Fall was proud of his country’s long-cherished democratic principles, making it a peaceful outlier in coup-hit West Africa.But …

Senegal crisis dents both democracy and business, say Dakar residentsTue, 06 Feb 2024 18:42:18 GMT Read More »

Nigeria superstar Victor Osimhen is available to play in Wednesday’s Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against South Africa following a fitness scare, the team confirmed.”Victor Osimhen has been declared fit and available for selection in the semi-final clash against South Africa on Wednesday. He has joined the team in Bouake and has trained with the …

Nigeria’s Osimhen declared fit for AFCON semi-finalTue, 06 Feb 2024 18:24:50 GMT Read More »

Democratic Republic of Congo coach Sebastien Desabre is hoping his team can use Wednesday’s Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against Ivory Coast to “give joy” to people at home amidst ongoing violence in the volatile east of the country.”We want to make the people who are suffering proud of us as a national team,” Desabre …

DR Congo team determined to ‘give joy’ to supporters as conflict scars countryTue, 06 Feb 2024 18:17:12 GMT Read More »

The main suspect in a deadly gas blast and blaze in a densely populated area of Nairobi that killed six people and injured around 280 was Tuesday placed in detention after appearing in court.A truck loaded with gas canisters exploded late Thursday, triggering a ferocious fireball in the Embakasi area of southeastern Nairobi.Derrick Kimathi, who …

‘Prime suspect’ in deadly Kenya gas blast placed in detentionTue, 06 Feb 2024 17:58:12 GMT Read More »

Ivory Coast’s interim coach Emerse Fae has urged his team to go into Wednesday’s Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against the Democratic Republic of Congo with the mindset that has allowed the hosts to make a “miraculous” recovery from the brink of elimination at the tournament.The Elephants reached the last four after an remarkable escape …

Hosts Ivory Coast determined to continue ‘miraculous’ run until AFCON finalTue, 06 Feb 2024 17:10:01 GMT Read More »

In a small village in southern Madagascar, dozens of women shelter from the scorching sun under a tree as they wait to weigh their children. The Indian Ocean island nation has suffered poor rainfall since October and fears of worsening hunger loom as the El Nino climate pattern takes hold.The country is particularly exposed to extreme weather …

El Nino brings hunger, drought fears to MadagascarTue, 06 Feb 2024 16:21:54 GMT Read More »

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday denied that people were dying of hunger in the Horn of Africa nation, which is grappling with a major food crisis caused by internal conflict and climate disasters.His comments to parliament followed a warning that the number of people who are critically food insecure in Africa’s second most …

Nobody dying from hunger in Ethiopia, says PMTue, 06 Feb 2024 15:31:30 GMT Read More »