Kenya and Haiti signed a “reciprocal” agreement on Friday to deploy police from the East African country to lead a UN-backed law and order mission in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation, Kenyan President William Ruto said.Ruto said he and Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry had “discussed the next steps to enable the fast-tracking of the deployment”, …
At least 26 people seeking to reach Europe died after their loaded vessel sank off northern Senegal, the governor of the Saint-Louis region told AFP on Thursday.Alioune Badara Samb said bodies had been found since Wednesday when the boat got into difficulty in a particularly dangerous part of the northern coast. He added that 21 …
At least 26 dead in migrant shipwreck off SenegalThu, 29 Feb 2024 20:31:49 GMT Read More »
A cousin and leading opponent of Chad’s transitional president Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno died in a battle with troops that his party said Thursday was an “assassination”. Yaya Dillo Djerou, 49, had told AFP amid mounting tensions ahead of his death that people wanted to “physically eliminate me” before a May 6 presidential election in which …
Army assault kills Chad opposition leader ahead of electionThu, 29 Feb 2024 20:07:22 GMT Read More »
When gunmen arrived in her village for the second time, Alexandrina Calisto realised it was time to take her terrified family to join the latest wave of people fleeing Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.The lawless region has been prey to a jihadist insurgency for more than six years, but in recent weeks there has been a …
Displaced Mozambicans recall terror of new jihadist attacksThu, 29 Feb 2024 19:34:43 GMT Read More »
Former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi, who introduced multi-party democracy to the East African nation, died on Thursday aged 98, the presidency said.”Dear citizens, it is with great sadness that I announce the death of the retired president… at 5:30 in the evening,” President Samia Suluhu Hassan said on state television TBC1.Mwinyi, who served two terms, …
Former Tanzanian president Ali Hassan Mwinyi dies aged 98Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:26:27 GMT Read More »
A major Senegalese civil society collective said Thursday it was joining forces with the opposition to ensure the presidential election is held before April 2, when President Macky Sall’s mandate runs out.The traditionally stable West African country plunged into its worst turmoil in decades after Sall’s last-minute deferral of the presidential election, that was due …
At least 24 people seeking to reach Europe drowned off northern Senegal when their loaded vessel sank, the governor of the Saint Louis region told AFP on Thursday.Governor Alioune Badara Samb said 24 bodies had been found since Wednesday when the boat got into difficulty in a particularly dangerous part of the northern coast. He …
At least 24 dead in migrant shipwreck off SenegalThu, 29 Feb 2024 12:51:19 GMT Read More »
Road blocks and heavy security were in place around an opposition party’s HQ in Chad’s capital on Thursday, a day after gunfire erupted nearby following a deadly attack on the security agency.Soldiers were deployed around the headquarters of the opposition Socialist Party Without Borders (PSF).The junta-led government has accused the party of being responsible for …
A new truck arrives in the South Sudanese town of Renk, packed with dozens of elderly men, women and children, their exhausted faces betraying the strain of their traumatic journey out of war-ravaged Sudan.They are among more than half a million people who have crossed the border into South Sudan, which is struggling to accommodate …
Napoleon Krizoa gazed stunned at the rubble before him, all that was left of his house, of his whole neighbourhood — swept away in a vast demolition operation by the Abidjan city authorities.”It was all torn down in front of us,” said his wife, Flora Seka, as she nursed their months-old baby daughter.She had only …
