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In war-ravaged Khartoum donkey carts clatter over worn asphalt, the smell of tomatoes wafts from newly reopened stalls and pedestrians dodge burnt-out cars left by two years of war.Life is slowly, cautiously returning to the Sudanese capital, weeks after the army recaptured the city from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who had held it …

Sudan capital tiptoes back to life after recapture by armyFri, 02 May 2025 04:19:46 GMT Read More »

Malian political parties, fearing their dissolution by the ruling junta, are raising their voices despite a crackdown on dissent and a shrinking civic space.The military announced on Wednesday the repeal of a charter which sets out the creation and function of political parties, in what legal experts said could be another move towards scrapping them …

Mali’s political parties speak out against dissolution threatThu, 01 May 2025 22:08:37 GMT Read More »

Hundreds of Tunisians took to the streets of the capital Thursday to mark Labour Day, to protest against President Kais Saied and to demand the release of jailed political figures.The rally, attended by members of different political factions, was called by Tunisia’s powerful UGTT trade union confederation and relatives of detained opposition figures.”We’re not happy …

Tunisia protesters demand freedom for jailed oppositionThu, 01 May 2025 18:19:54 GMT Read More »

Kenyan police said the murder of a politician in the capital Nairobi appears to have been premeditated and targeted, with the president promising on Thursday that those responsible would be caught.Charles Ong’ondo Were, an MP for the Kasipul area in the country’s west, was shot when his car stopped at a red light on a …

Kenya police say MP killing looks ‘premeditated’Thu, 01 May 2025 10:33:18 GMT Read More »

The killing of a Kenyan member of parliament, Charles Ong’ondo Were, in the capital Nairobi, appeared to have been targeted, police said.The MP was shot by a passenger on a motorbike late Wednesday as he was in a car on the major Ngong Road which runs through the capital, according to eyewitnesses cited in the …

Kenya police say MP killing appears ‘premeditated’Thu, 01 May 2025 08:20:16 GMT Read More »

Street names in Ivory Coast’s economic capital have taken on a decidedly more local flavour over the past few weeks, as African names have replaced French ones in France’s former colony.The road linking the airport to Abidjan’s city centre, for example, is no longer named after former French president Valerie Giscard d’Estaing, but for the …

Less French, more African: Ivory Coast renames its streetsThu, 01 May 2025 05:11:25 GMT Read More »

Several thousand people rallied in support of Burkina Faso’s junta Wednesday, days after the military rulers said they had uncovered a “plot” to overthrow the government.Demonstrators carried giant posters of junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore and Burkinabe and Russian flags in one of the biggest rallies since Traore seized power in a coup in September …

Burkina junta rallies supporters after claimed coup plotWed, 30 Apr 2025 21:28:32 GMT Read More »

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Wednesday a judicial inquiry into claims of deliberate delays in prosecuting apartheid-era crimes three decades after the end of white-minority rule.The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) created in 1996 exposed crimes, including murder and torture, carried out during apartheid but few of these cases have progressed to trial.”Allegations of …

South Africa sets up inquiry into slow apartheid justiceWed, 30 Apr 2025 15:57:53 GMT Read More »

Africans in search of a better future became the latest casualties of Yemen’s decade-long conflict after a deadly strike blamed on the United States hit a migrant detention centre, killing dozens of people.The pre-dawn attack on Monday killed more than 60 people in their sleep, the country’s Huthi rebels said, attributing the raid to the …

Migrants’ dreams buried under rubble after deadly strike on Yemen centreWed, 30 Apr 2025 15:35:07 GMT Read More »

White wings flashing overhead in the sunlight, conservationist Olivier Nsengimana points out Rwanda’s grey crowned cranes, migratory birds that have made an extraordinary comeback in the Great Lakes region.Their resurgence is thanks to the veterinarian and former gorilla doctor’s work protecting their natural habitat in a country better known for its misty peaks than damp …

Rwandan awarded for saving grey crowned cranesWed, 30 Apr 2025 14:18:35 GMT Read More »