Libreville (AFP) - Africa Cup of Nations hosts Gabon have sacked coach Jorge Costa little more than two months before the start of the 2017 tournament, the country's federation announced on Friday. The Fegafoot first cancelled a Costa press conference scheduled for Friday morning before announcing the departure of the 45-year-old former Portugal ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - African countries on Friday demanded that the appointment of a new UN expert on LGBT rights be suspended, saying his mission to report on anti-gay violence had nothing to do with human rights. The UN Human Rights Council in late September appointed international law professor Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand t ...
Bamako (AFP) - Campaigning for municipal elections was underway in Mali on Friday under a cloud of apathy and uncertainty, following years of delays due to the persistent insecurity. The vote, due on November 20, will elect 12,000 councillors in the country's 703 communes two years later than originally scheduled, as the government wrestles with ...
Kinshasa (AFP) - The United Nations on Friday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo's government and the opposition to exercise restraint after officials banned an opposition rally in the capital Kinshasa set for Saturday. I would like to appeal to the organisers and their activists as well as to security forces in Kinshasa who are supposed to ...
The 22nd session of the Conference of Parties (COP 22) of the United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change is scheduled to take place in Marrakesh from November 7-18. Unlike COP 21, which completely ignored agriculture, COP 22 will take the subject into account, albeit only marginally. The Conference will in fact dis ...
Santiago (AFP) - A 6.4-magnitude earthquake of great intensity struck central Chile on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage, officials said. The quake shook buildings in the capital Santiago, causing panic among residents, whose frantic phone calls clogged cellular networks and land lines, AFP correspondents said. But ther ...
Rabat (AFP) - Morocco has lifted a nearly one-year ban on calls made through popular internet services like Skype and WhatsApp, the national telecommunications regulatory agency said on Friday. The surprise announcement comes days before Morocco is to host COP22 climate talks from November 7 to 18. In January, the regulatory agency ANRT impos ...
Tunis (AFP) - Tunisia's religious affairs minister was fired Friday for attacking the foundations of diplomacy after he publicly suggested the conservative form of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia had links to extremism. A government statement said Prime Minister Youssef Chahed had relieved Abdeljalil Ben Salem of his position because of his a ...
Paris (AFP) - Moroccans must rebel against the mediaeval laws which weigh them down, the winner of France's top literary prize declared Friday as she jumped to the defence of two teenage girls who were arrested after being caught kissing. Leila Slimani, who became the first Moroccan woman to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt Thursday for her n ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group remains capable of launching large-scale attacks despite claims that the insurgency is weakening, a UN report warned Friday. The Islamist group carried out six sophisticated hotel attacks in Mogadishu from November 2015 to June of this year, the report by UN sanctions ...
Agriculture, forestry and fisheries will feature prominently during the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention Climate Change (COP22) in Marrakech from 7-18 November 2016. The conference marks a turning point in efforts to address global warming, including its impact on food security and agriculture, because th ...
The $5 billion East African pharmaceutical market is expected to grow by more than 12% per year for the next five years, as lifestyle changes in the region lead to higher rates of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. Such high growth offers significant opportunity, but so far the region 39;s 65 manufacturers have only been able to sa ...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today the announcement of the adoption of the new Constitution in C ocirc;te d 39;Ivoire by the Commission Electorale Ind eacute;pendante, which followed the 30 October constitutional referendum. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr. Ban noted with satisfaction that the ...
Energy Minister, Tina Joemat-Pettersson, today launched the Ngwaabe Integrated Energy Centre (IeC) at Feta-Kgomo Greater Tubatse Municipality. The Centre was launched in partnership with Shell SA and Feta-Kgomo Greater Tubatse Municipality. The Centre is a community project aimed at enhancing access to energy in rural areas and is a one-stop en ...
Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Advocate Ngoako Ramatlhodi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of governance and public administration with the Kingdom of Lesotho Minister of Public Service, Mr Tsukutlane Au in Pretoria. The signing of the MoU took place within the broader cooperation ...
The annual Senior Experts Dialogue on Science, Technology and the African Transformation Agenda continued in South Africa Thursday with participants agreeing on the need for local government leaders across the continent to ramp up investment in technology and innovation to drive growth in cities, particularly at municipal level. African inn ...
On November 2, 2016, President Xi Jinping held talks with President Alpha Cond eacute; of Guinea at the Great Hall of the People. The two heads of state decided to establish China-Guinea comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation, and take the implementation of results achieved in the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Coo ...
HE Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia welcomes the Abu Dhabi peace agreement signed by Presidents of Puntland GalMudug States of Somalia over Galkayo conflict. Somali President appealed to both Presidents of Puntland and GlaMudug to immediately implement the signed agreement with full commitment to end ...
Two very young children, whose mother died while on board a boat ferrying refuges and migrants from North Africa to Europe, were rescued by Save the Children today as part of an operation in which more than 100 people were saved by our search and rescue vessel, the Vos Hestia. Several children, including one as young as two years-old, were ...
The Security Council strongly condemns the repeated violations of the ceasefire arrangements by the Plateforme and Coordination armed groups in and around Kidal over the last months, which threaten the viability of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali. The Security Council urges the signatory armed groups to cease hostilities immed ...
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