Nairobi (AFP) - Burundi's government on Friday asked Tanzania to arrest several leaders of the main opposition attending peace talks in Arusha in a bid to resolve a nearly two-year political crisis. The talks are the latest effort by former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa to mediate the crisis in neighbouring Burundi which erupted when Presid ...
Bamako (AFP) - A key step on the road to peace in northern Mali will take place Saturday when interim local authorities begin work, smoothing the path to municipal elections, the Malian government said. Tuareg-led rebels led an uprising in 2012 that was hijacked by jihadists, throwing northern Mali into chaos, but the rebels signed an accord in ...
Tunis (AFP) - Soldiers shot dead two suspected jihadists on Friday in the mountainous Kasserine region of central Tunisia, the defence ministry said. A military unit was this afternoon able to kill two terrorists and wound others on Sammama mountain , it said in a statement, without specifying how many were wounded. The army also detained a ...
Madrid (AFP) - Hundreds of migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Friday, days after Morocco warned the EU of fresh migrant trouble following a row over a trade deal. Ceuta officials said 498 migrants were counted climbing over the high border fence into the Spanish North African territory. A total 700 had attempted to ...
Maputo (AFP) - Cyclone Dineo killed seven people, injured 55 and affected hundreds of thousands across southern Mozambique, the country's natural disasters agency said Friday. More than 20,000 homes were destroyed by winds and very strong rain , the National Institute of Disaster Management said, adding that the search for survivors is ongoing. ...
Madrid (AFP) - Hundreds of migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Friday, days after Morocco warned the EU of fresh migrant trouble following a row over a trade deal. The Spanish civil guard -- or paramilitary police -- told AFP that several hundred migrants had stormed the border fence into the Spanish North African ...
London, Thursday 16th February 2017: Alongside her role as International Sales Director at The Washington Post, Emma Winchurch-Beale has been named as 2017 President of the World Media Group, a strategic alliance of the world 39;s leading international publications to which the Washington Post belongs. She takes over the year-long po ...
Kigali, Rwanda, February 17, 2017 ndash; Innovative research released today by The MasterCard Foundation is making the case for a new approach to youth employment training strategies in Africa. Invisible Lives: Under ...
bull; Former Black Panther chairperson dismisses the ldquo;distinction between this individual president and that individual president rdquo; in the USA bull; Author Naomi Wolf calls Obama ldquo;the pawn of globalized interests; rdquo; adds, ldquo;Whoever rsquo;s in the White House has very little room to move rdquo; bu ...
KIGALI, Rwanda, February 17, 2017 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Innovative research released today by The MasterCard Foundation is making the case for a new approach to youth employment training strategies in Africa. Invisible Lives: Understanding Youth Livelihoods in Ghana and Uganda, released today at the
Following US President Donald Trump rsquo;s inauguration, George Orwell rsquo;s classic dystopia 1984 jumped to number one on Amazon rsquo;s list of best-selling books, just the latest sign of the genre rsquo;s current popularity. But Nigerian-American World Fantasy Award winner Nnedi Okorafor said 1984 is not the dystopia ...
Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, February 16, 2017 ndash; In a major speech delivered before the diplomatic community in Abidjan, African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi Adesina stressed that the Bank is stronger than ever before. The lending and disbursements are at record levels, while the institution has made significant efficie ...
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