Luanda (AFP) - Angola's likely next president Joao Lourenco on Monday declared war on graft in the notoriously corrupt country, as he starts to shape his public image ahead of elections due in August. Defence Minister Lourenco was recently named to succeed President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled Angola for 37 years, as head of the MPLA ...
Algiers (AFP) - Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had acute bronchitis on Monday, causing German Chancellor Angela Merkel to call off a visit to Algeria at the last minute, the presidency said. Bouteflika, Algeria's longest-serving leader, suffered a mini-stroke in 2013 that affected his mobility and speech. The 79-year-old has since a ...
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's Shin Bet security service said on Monday it had arrested an Arab Israeli on suspicion of aiding the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group and plotting attacks in the Jewish state. Its agents and police had arrested Anas Haj Yahya, 35, from the northern town of Taibe, on January 29 in the wake of intelligence information w ...
Madrid (AFP) - The Spanish outposts of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Morocco, which have the European Union's only land borders with Africa, are tempting launch pads for clandestine immigration to continental Europe. Reinforced borders Ceuta, a former Roman colony of 85,000 people, measures about 18 square kilometres (seven square mi ...
Algiers (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called off a visit to Algeria on Monday at the last minute because President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was suffering acute bronchitis, the two countries announced. Algerian and German authorities have today mutually agreed to postpone the official visit of Merkel, Algeria's presidency said in a stat ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - FIFA president Gianni Infantino will be in South Africa and Zimbabwe this week to meet African football bosses and attend a birthday party. He has invited all 54 African national football association presidents to Johannesburg for two days of meetings, starting Tuesday. The 46-year-old Swiss-Italian leaves for Harare Thur ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - South African retail firms Steinhoff International and Shoprite Holdings announced Monday they had scrapped plans to merge their local assets to form the continent's biggest retailer. The plan announced in December 2016 was geared to create a discount retailer worth over $14 billion to target Africa's value conscious consume ...
Algiers (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to Algiers was called off on Monday due to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika being temporarily unavailable due to chronic bronchitis , his office said. Algerian and German authorities have today mutually agreed to postpone the official visit of Merkel, the presidency said in a statement. ...
Tetouan (Morocco) (AFP) - One early morning last week, Adam's fellow migrants managed to climb over the high border fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Adam, a 17-year-old from Guinea, failed and suffered a dangerous concussion in the process -- but he has not given up his dream of reaching European Union territory. I ...
Algiers (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Algeria from Monday to press efforts to get North African countries to reduce the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean into Europe. Merkel, who last week hosted Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, is hoping for partnerships with Maghreb countries and Egypt to prevent a new wave of m ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - Fallen South African giants Orlando Pirates named Swede Kjell Jonevret as coach Monday in succession to Turk Muhsin Ertugral. The 54-year-old Scandinavian inherits a team lying 10th in the league after suffering a club record 6-0 defeat by Mamelodi Sundowns last weekend. Pirates only realistic chance of success this seaso ...
Madrid (AFP) - Some 300 migrants stormed the border between Morocco and Spain at Ceuta on Monday, authorities said, days after hundreds more forced their way over the frontier. The young migrants climbed over the high border fence into the Spanish North African territory, ecstatic to have finally crossed into a European Union state. Their arr ...
Mogadishu (AFP) - The toll has climbed to 39 dead in an unusually deadly suicide bombing at the weekend in the Somali capital Mogadishu, rescue workers said Monday, the first since a new president was chosen this month. The suicide car bomber struck a busy market in the Madina neighbourhood on Sunday, the explosion ripping through shoppers, stal ...
Lusaka (AFP) - A proposal by Zambian football authorities to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians has kicked off a dispute over homosexuality, which is illegal in the country and widely seen as immoral. The new draft constitution of the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) contains a clause banning discrimination on grounds of sexual ori ...
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