Khartoum (AFP) - Sudan said Wednesday that President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for genocide, will appear at the same summit in Saudi Arabia as Donald Trump, but the United States indicated it opposes his attendance. I can confirm President Bashir will go ... to Saudi Arabia, Sudan's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters in Genev ...
From 1985 until 1986, I was a Peace Corps Volunteer living in the Azzeden Valley working for the country rsquo;s Eaux et Forets (Water and Forests) Service to study and inventory what might rsquo;ve been some of Morocco rsquo;s last herds of wild Barbary Sheep. These wild sheep lived on a 2000 hectare mountain reserve in Toubkal National Park, just ...
Bamako (AFP) - An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists , local officials told AFP on Wednesday, the first such incident since jihadist groups were driven out of the region. Jihadists seized key northern cities in Mali in March 2012, and though they were driven out by a French-led military intervention i ...
Bamako (AFP) - An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, local officials told AFP on Wednesday, the first such incident since jihadist groups overran the region five years ago. Jihadists seized key northern cities in Mali in March 2012, and though they were driven out by a French-led military intervention ...
Niamey (AFP) - At least 179 people, almost half of them children, have died of meningitis since January in Niger, where some 3,000 suspected cases have been reported, the United Nations said Wednesday. From January 2 to May 7 2017, a total of 3,037 suspected cases of meningitis, including 179 deaths, was reported in the country, said the UN's ...
Geneva (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been charged with war crimes and genocide, will attend the same summit in Saudi Arabia as US President Donald Trump, Khartoum's top diplomat said Wednesday. I can confirm President Bashir will go ... to Saudi Arabia, Sudan's foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters in Geneva. W ...
The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have sustained strong economic growth in the last 15 years. However, in order to maintain the existing annual remarkable growth rate of approximately 5-6%, African countries need to ensure that power infrastructure is developed at a far greater rate. Since 2000, power consumption has increased by 45%, w ...
Luanda (AFP) - Angola's opposition called Wednesday for official clarification on the health of veteran President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, 74, who has been out of the country for nearly three weeks. Dos Santos's influential daughter Isabel this week moved to deny rumours the president had died in Spain, where he was confirmed to have travelled b ...
BBC Somali is today launching its first ever poetry award for young women. The contest is open to all women aged 16 to 35 with no restrictions on their level of experience or location. Entries for the award must be an original work of poetry, that is a maximum of 15 lines long and not more than one minute of recording, in Somali language. ...
Accra (AFP) - The seasonal rains are due in Ghana, and like every year since 2015, when more than 150 people were killed during the deluge, the disaster looms heavily over the capital, Accra. Authorities are scrambling to prevent a similar emergency when the heavens open by clearing silt, rubbish and sludge from the open drains and waterways of ...
Kinshasa (AFP) - Two decades after Kinshasa gave itself up willingly to rebel commander Laurent-Desire Kabila, his son Joseph remains at the helm of this vast, conflict-ravaged nation although his rule is mired in political crisis. Back in 1997, the country then known as Zaire was struggling under the authoritarian rule of Joseph Mobutu Sese Sek ...
In response to news that former Ethiopian opposition spokesman Yonatan Tesfaye has been found guilty of ldquo;encouragement of terrorism rdquo; in connection with his posts on Facebook, Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International rsquo;s Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said: ldquo;Today rsquo;s verdict ...
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