Picfair in partnership with New African magazine has announced the CelebrateAfrica photo competition sponsored by Canon.The competition will shine light on the visual diversity of Africa and it is open to residents of any African country from now till April 15. Online competition has already received hundreds of photos submitted under t ...

Dakar (AFP) - The mayor of Senegal's capital is facing a judicial probe into the disappearance of 1.83 billion CFA francs ($2.85 million) in city funds, the country's top prosecutor said Friday. Khalifa Sall, a member of the coalition of ruling parties, has run Dakar since 2009 and has been seen as a probable contender in the 2019 presidential e ...

Rome (AFP) - The number of migrants rescued at sea this year in operations run by Italy's coastguard topped 15,000 on Friday after another 900 people were saved, including eight-month-old Syrian twins and five other babies. The latest operations confirm a sharp upward spike in winter departures from troubled Libya. Aid groups believe the exod ...

Pretoria (AFP) - Swede Alexander Bjork and Scot Scott Jamieson shared the Tshwane Open second-round lead Friday, but South African Thomas Aiken stole the show with a nine-under 62. Aiken carded halves of 31, and at one stage the course record of 60 appeared under threat as the three-time European Tour winner unleashed a birdie blitz. On the f ...

More than 100 delegates from 30 African countries are expected to attend the upcoming Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) Conference to be held from 7 to 9 March in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The focus of the 11th CABRI conference will be ldquo;Managing budgetary pressures, rdquo; and delegates will be equipped with the ...

Tunis (AFP) - A zoo in the Tunisian capital where visitors stoned a crocodile to death is to close temporarily, the local affairs and environment ministry said Friday. It will close its gates from Monday for emergency cleaning and maintenance works and to set up measures to manage visitors entering and exiting , the ministry said. The public ...

Tunis (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a new agreement with Tunisia on tackling illegal migration during a visit Friday, following tensions over the case of the Tunisian suspect in the Berlin market attack. Merkel, on a two-day trip to North Africa that also included a stop in Egypt, said Germany and Tunisia had agreed on faster ...

Tunis (AFP) - Tunisia and Germany announced a new agreement on tackling illegal migration, during a visit on Friday by Chancellor Angela Merkel. The accord follows frictions between the two countries over the case of a Tunisian rejected asylum seeker blamed for a truck rampage at a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people. This agreement ...

Tunis (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to press Tunisian leaders to step up efforts to help curb an influx of illegal migrants to her country during a visit on Friday. Her two-day trip, which also included a stop in Egypt, comes with Germany still reeling from several jihadist attacks, including a truck rampage by a Tunisian suspec ...

Sammama (Tunisia) (AFP) - A rustic theatre where performers wear masks carved from cactus aims to win over young Tunisians in a long neglected mountain district that has become a cradle of jihadism. Welcome to the Jabal (mountain) Theatre of music and dance on an open-air stage flattened from bare earth on Mount Sammama, in a range of hills th ...

Algiers (AFP) - Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whose novel 2084 depicted a dystopian state governed by religious law, says writers and artists need to join the fight against Islamic extremism. Literature and the arts are not playing a big role in this struggle against barbarism, he said. In an interview with AFP, the 67-year-old elder st ...