Mali: Municipal polls marked by low turnout and violence
Mali held long-delayed local elections Sunday to fill posts left vacant in the north since Islamist militants hijacked a 2012 Tuareg rebellion and ousted the […]
Articles by Khalid Al Mouahidi
Kenya: Officials embezzled money meant for Olympic team – Report
An investigation by Kenyan ministry of Sport has revealed the country’s officials embezzled money meant for the Rio 2016 Olympic team. According to the report, […]
DR Congo: Opposition figure grabs PM role
Samy Badibanga, Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader has been named prime minister in the troubled central African nation on Thursday as part of a […]
COP22: Gabon, Equatorial Guinea ink deal resolving border dispute
Gabon and Equatorial Guinea officials on the margins of COP22 in Marrakech on Wednesday, agreed on a compromise aimed at submitting to the International Court […]
Burundi seeks successor of UN envoy Jamal Benomar
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza on Monday asked the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a new envoy after the government rejected Moroccan diplomat […]
Guinea Bissau president dismisses cabinet
The President of Guinea-Bissau, Jose Mario Vaz, on Monday announced the dismissal of his entire cabinet led by Prime Minister Baciro Ja. According to a […]
Gambia notified UN to leave the ICC by Nov. 2017
The United Nations on Monday disclosed that Gambia’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will take effect on November 10th, […]
Climate change could accelerate African migration – UNEP warns
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Director for Africa, Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo on Sunday said Africa will face a surge in internal and cross-border […]
Millennia-old mummy found in Egypt tomb in “very good condition”
Egypt’s antiquities ministry on Sunday said Spanish archaeologists have discovered a multi-millennial Pharaonic mummy “in very good condition” in a tomb near Luxor, in south […]
Morocco could officially return to the AU on Nov 16.
Morocco could officially return to the African Union next week during the AU head of states’ summit on the sideline of the underway COP22. Some […]