Dakar (AFP) - Chadian lawyer Jacqueline Moudeina has fought for close to two decades to deliver justice for the victims of former president Hissene Habre, who terrorised his people for eight years, leaving tens of thousands dead. Moudeina represented the victims during Habre's trial by a special court created by Senegal and the African Union. ...

Accra (AFP) - Ghana is planning to make senior high school free for all teenagers, whatever their background, in a move experts say could transform the lives of millions of youngsters, particularly girls. President Nana Akufo-Addo has promised to introduce the measure in September to fulfil a campaign pledge made during last December's election ...

Dakar (AFP) - A desert warfare specialist, Chad's Hissene Habre seized power in 1982 and quickly embraced the role of ruthless dictator, with brutal atrocities the hallmark of his eight-year reign of terror. Often dressed in combat fatigues that complemented his desert fighter nickname, Habre fled to Senegal after he was ousted by current Chad ...

Dakar (AFP) - A special court in Dakar on Thursday upheld a life sentence on appeal for Chad's former president Hissene Habre for war crimes and crimes against humanity, but acquitted him of rape. The Extraordinary African Chambers, a body created by Senegal and the African Union (AU), sentenced Habre last May to life behind bars, an unprecedent ...

Rabat (AFP) - A Moroccan court has sentenced seven people to between five and eight months in prison over the death of a fish seller crushed in a rubbish truck. Mouhcine Fikri, 31, was killed on October 28 as he protested against the authorities' seizure and destruction of his swordfish, which had been caught out of season. His death in the n ...

Addis Ababa (AFP) - The United States issued a warning Thursday to its citizens about travelling to a popular tourist region in Ethiopia after a string of grenade attacks targeting hotels and homes. The US embassy in Addis Ababa said there had been four grenade blasts this month in Gondar, a city in the north known for its ancient castles. A ...

Berlin, Germany, April 27, 2017 ndash; In a speech delivered at a meeting with the Committee for Economic Cooperation and Development of the German Parliament in Berlin on Wednesday, the President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, thanked the Committee for Germany rsquo;s generous contribution to the African Develo ...

Bizerte (Tunisia) (AFP) - Dimming the lights on their patrol boat, Tunisian coastguards stand in silence scanning the sea for speedboats on clandestine missions to and from Italy. Smuggling gangs are using high-performance vessels to ferry people, drugs and cigarettes across the Strait of Sicily, a distance of just 95 miles (150 kilometres). ...

Saint-Denis de la Reunion (AFP) - A man suspected of being a radicalised Islamist shot and wounded two policemen on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion as they tried to arrest him on Thursday, authorities said. The man refused to be arrested and fired a rifle at police, a local government official on the island said, adding that the susp ...

Wellington (AFP) - Auckland Blues hardman Jerome Kaino has joined a growing list of All Blacks sidelined by injury as the Super Rugby competition takes its toll ahead of the British and Irish Lions tour. Kaino is to undergo surgery on an injured knee on Friday and will be out of action for six weeks, putting him in doubt for the first Lions Test ...

Dakar (AFP) - Chad's former president Hissene Habre will learn Thursday if his lawyers' appeal against sentences for war crimes, crimes against humanity and rape have been successful, following his landmark conviction by a special court last year. The Extraordinary African Chambers, a body created by Senegal and the African Union (AU), sentenced ...