No presidential polls in DR Congo until mid-2019
There will not be elections to choose the next president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) until 2019, the electoral commission said. Elections were […]
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Burkina Faso: Ex-minister Bassolé released from prison, placed under house arrest
Burkina Faso’s former foreign affairs minister, Djibril Bassolé, has been released from jail on Wednesday, pending trial for treason. Djibril Bassolé who is accused of […]
Sub-Saharan Africa to record slow growth – WB’s Africa Pulse report
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy is growing more slowly this year than expected, the World Bank said on Wednesday. According to the Bretton Wood institution’s Africa Pulse […]
France to welcome 3,000 refugees from Africa by 2019
France will welcome about 10,000 refugees by 2019, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday after meeting with the President of the UN High Commission for […]
Two UN Peacekeepers killed in DRC
Two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and several injured in an attack on their base in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), […]
Mali: Mamoutou Touré Bavieux elected new president of Fémafoot
Mamoutou Touré Bavieux is the new president of the Malian Football Federation (Fémafoot) for the next a four-years. He was elected in the capital city, […]
Tunisia: who was Slim Chaker, the Minister who died for children cancer?
Tunisia’s health minister Slim Chaker died on Sunday after a charity marathon to build a clinic for children with cancer, officials said on Monday. According […]
US troops killed in ambush in Niger by suspected terrorists
Three members of the US Special Operations Forces have been killed and two others wounded in Niger near the Mali-Niger border, reports say. According Lt. […]
Kenya: WFP cuts food rations for over 400.000 refugees by 30%
The U.N. World Food Program on Monday announced that it will cut food rations by 30 percent for more than 400,000 refugees living in camps […]
Madagascar: Plague outbreak kills scores – WHO
The World Health Organization on Sunday warned that a highly infectious, deadly form of pneumonic plague is spreading rapidly in Madagascar after the outbreak has […]