Ivorian coffee stuck at ports after Algeria banned imports
Coffee is piling up at ports and warehouses in Côte d’Ivoire, the world’s biggest coffee producer, 3 months after Algeria, its main buyer, banned the […]
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Kidnappings on the rise in Cameroon’s Anglophone restive regions
About 35 people, including two Tunisian engineers, have been kidnapped by armed groups in Cameroun’s restive South-West region last Saturday and Sunday. The central African […]
Mining: Zambia uncovers $8bn tax scam
Zambia’s tax agency plans to conduct audits on all mining companies in the southern African nation, running back six years after uncovering that a prominent […]
Nigeria’s kidnapped Dapchi schoolgirls freed
Nigeria’s insurgent group Boko Haram on Wednesday morning returned 76 of the recently abducted school girls in the town of Dapachi in Nigeria’s Yobe State, […]
Burundi sets May 17 for a vote on extending presidential terms
Burundi has set May 17 as the date for a referendum that could extend President Pierre Nkurunziza’s rule for at least a decade. A statement […]
Zimbabweans return $591 million illegally hidden abroad
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday said companies and individuals in the southern African nation have returned about $591 million state funds illegally stashed abroad […]
ICC assigns judges to Kenyan leaders’ withdrawn cases
Three Judges of the Trial Chamber IV at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have been assigned the withdrawn cases against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and […]
Canada to deploy helicopters and support troops to war-torn Mali
The Canadian government will send troops, helicopters and medical staff, to terrorism-stricken Mali later this year as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission, a […]
South-South Cooperation, One of Best Tools for Africa’s Emergence – King of Morocco
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has once again stressed on Friday the importance of the promotion of South-South cooperation as a means to meet the […]
Cameroon’s Paul Biya vows to continue crackdown on Anglophone agitators
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya in a rare cabinet meeting on Thursday vowed to continue military crackdown on English-speaking separatists in the central African nation. This […]