Antananarivo (AFP) - A veteran political figure in Madagascar has died of gunshot wounds at his home, police said on Friday, after posting about personal problems on social media. Mamy Rakotoarivelo, a former parliament speaker and a key figure in talks that resolved a political crisis that dogged the country in the early 2000s, was found with a ...
Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, 28 July 2017 ndash; The African Development Bank (AfDB) will invest US $24 billion dollars in agriculture as part of its Feed Africa programme- a strategy for agricultural development in Africa. President of the Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, said this in a speech he delivered at the 50th anniversary celebrat ...
Nairobi (AFP) - Ethiopia's foreign ministry said Friday it will issue identification cards to Rastafarians, granting rights to a community that has long complained of living in limbo in their promised land . Rastafarians began immigrating to Ethiopia in the 1950s after Emperor Haile Selassie, whom they consider their messiah, set aside 500 acre ...
Kigali (AFP) - Who can tell us what the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi was all about? teacher Josephat Arinetwe asks his pupils as he chalks the question on the blackboard. The class of Rwandan teenagers stare back at him until, upon further prompting, one mumbles: the massive killing of people. Slowly Arinetwe draws out more details, sc ...
Dakar (AFP) - Senegal holds a legislative election on Sunday following a campaign gripped by tension between the rival coalitions of President Macky Sall, the former president Abdoulaye Wade and Dakar's mayor, Khalifa Sall. Campaigning ends Friday, with the first results known in the early hours of Monday. Polling will take place between 8am ...
Dakar (AFP) - Senegal, known for its stability and strong civil society, is one of the few African nations not to have suffered a coup since independence in 1960. The former French colony has been headed since 2012 by President Macky Sall, and holds legislative elections on Sunday. Here are five things to know about the west African, Muslim-m ...
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