Former swimming great Kirsty Coventry says she sees no problem in being a candidate to become the most powerful person in sport despite being a minister in the Zimbabwean government whose election in 2023 was described as neither “free nor fair.”The two-time Olympic gold medallist — she has seven medals in all — has been …
Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS on Wednesday after more than a year of diplomatic tensions.The withdrawal has shaken the Economic Community of West African States, which many consider to be the continent’s most important regional group and this year marks its 50th anniversary.While …
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger officially leave W.Africa blocWed, 29 Jan 2025 13:34:19 GMT Read More »
Rwanda-backed fighters controlled most of the besieged DR Congo city of Goma on Wednesday as residents slowly emerged from their homes after days of deadly fighting in the key mineral trading hub.The M23 armed group and Rwandan troops have seized the airport and most of the centre and neighbourhoods since marching into the eastern provincial …
The president of crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo was set to meet his Rwandan counterpart at an emergency summit on Wednesday, as fighters backed by Kigali appeared on the brink of seizing the key city of Goma. The M23 armed group took control of Goma’s airport on Tuesday, a security source said, following days of intense …
In a dream, a mysterious voice calls out in the night to King Alantako, warning of “chaos” ahead for the young Nigerian sovereign.He wakes with a start — and sets out on an adventure that will lead him to his destiny and save the kingdom of Ile Kaaro Oojiire.So begins The Wild Kingdoms — a …
Nigeria’s gaming studios weave quests in native cultureWed, 29 Jan 2025 04:04:49 GMT Read More »
Mona Ibrahim has already buried two of her children.In the span of just two months, the Sudanese mother watched helplessly as severe malnutrition killed her 10-year-old daughter, Rania, and her eight-month-old son, Montasir, in the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp.”I could only hold them as they faded away,” Ibrahim, 40, told AFP via video call, sitting …
‘No food, nothing’: famine grips SudanWed, 29 Jan 2025 03:08:11 GMT Read More »
An armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the besieged Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma’s airport on Tuesday, a security source said, following three days of clashes that have killed more than 100 people.Nearly 1,000 have also been wounded, according to an AFP tally of tolls from Goma’s overflowing hospitals, in three …
The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as conditions deteriorate in the region, haunted by the legacy of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath.The warning came as the M23 armed group backed by Rwandan troops took control of the airport in the besieged …
UN warns of ethnic attacks in eastern DR CongoTue, 28 Jan 2025 23:46:41 GMT Read More »
Thousands of people rallied in junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali on Tuesday to back their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States regional bloc, due to take effect Wednesday.The departure of these three founding members from the bloc has fractured the region and is leaving the ECOWAS grouping with an uncertain future.The three …
France waged a war marked by “extreme violence” during Cameroon’s fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said in the latest officially commissioned study grappling with Paris’s colonial past released on Tuesday.The historians found that Paris implemented mass forced displacement, pushed hundreds of thousands of Cameroonians into internment camps and supported brutal militias to …
