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Abou Fofana spent his student years making the most of the opportunities on offer in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s bustling economic capital of six million people.But after finishing his studies and newly qualified in farming, the 33-year-old decided to move back to his hometown in the country’s west.Sangouine, a fraction of Abidjan’s size with 63,000 inhabitants, …

Young Ivorian workers snub Abidjan to settle in rural westWed, 10 Sep 2025 06:50:42 GMT Read More »

A streak of killings in South Africa’s dangerous ganglands in Cape Town has led communities to demand protection as city officials say they lack the resources to stop the violence.”One gangster, one bullet,” scores chanted at a recent march led by an anti-gang group in the sprawling Cape Flats area after authorities recorded 59 murders …

Anger, fear as gang violence explodes in Cape TownWed, 10 Sep 2025 06:34:22 GMT Read More »

While sorting through the brown nuts she had collected from the leafy shea trees near her home in Saki, southwestern Nigeria, Adija Rahman was scathing of the government’s plans to transform her industry.Africa’s most populous country produces roughly 40 percent of the world’s supply of shea nuts, used to make shea butter, a key ingredient …

Promising growth, Nigeria shea nut export ban pinches producersWed, 10 Sep 2025 06:26:56 GMT Read More »

Cape Verde, a west African island nation of fewer than 550,000 inhabitants, beat Cameroon 1-0 on Tuesday to strengthen hopes of playing at the World Cup for the first time.The Blue Sharks need three points in October from matches away to Libya and at home to Eswatini to win Group D, which eight-time World Cup …

Cape Verde close to World Cup debut after beating CameroonTue, 09 Sep 2025 20:17:23 GMT Read More »

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara is widely expected to win a fourth term at the head of the west African nation after the two main opposition leaders were barred from running against the 83-year-old in the October 25 election.Former president Laurent Gbagbo, leader of the African Peoples’ Party — Ivory Coast (PPA-CI), was on Monday disqualified from …

I.Coast presidential poll to go ahead with opposition hobbledTue, 09 Sep 2025 19:11:33 GMT Read More »

Villages torched, young girls forced into sexual slavery, babies beaten and thrown into fires: the International Criminal Court Tuesday heard harrowing stories of atrocities allegedly committed by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda.The fugitive warlord faces 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, torture, enslavement and sexual slavery, allegedly …

ICC hears harrowing details as Kony war crimes hearing opensTue, 09 Sep 2025 14:17:05 GMT Read More »

Ethiopia inaugurated the continent’s largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday in what Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called a “great achievement for all black people”, but it drew a protest to the United Nations from downstream nation Egypt. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), straddling a tributary of the River Nile, is a national project of historic scale …

Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s biggest dam, drawing Egyptian protestTue, 09 Sep 2025 13:24:29 GMT Read More »

Activists on a Gaza aid flotilla that alleged it was targeted by a “drone attack” off Tunisia overnight said Tuesday they remained “determined” to reach the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.The flotilla organisers had said late Monday that one of their boats was hit by a suspected UAV off the coast of Tunisia, but authorities there said …

Aid flotilla activists say determined to reach Gaza despite ‘drone attack’Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:34:48 GMT Read More »

Ethiopia inaugurated the continent’s largest hydroelectric project on Tuesday, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed calling it a “great achievement for all black people” despite years of diplomatic rancour over the dam with downstream neighbour Egypt. For Ethiopia, the Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD), straddling a tributary of the River Nile, is a national project of historic scale …

Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s biggest damTue, 09 Sep 2025 09:48:55 GMT Read More »

The consequences of the brutal crimes allegedly committed by Uganda rebel chief Joseph Kony are still reverberating in the country more than 20 years later, an International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Tuesday.Kony faces 39 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, torture, enslavement and sexual slavery, allegedly committed between July …

Kony crimes still felt in Uganda, 20 years on, ICC hearsTue, 09 Sep 2025 09:39:38 GMT Read More »