Luanda (AFP) - Angola's ruling MPLA won this week's election, a poll official announced Thursday, with party candidate Joao Lourenco now set to succeed President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos who has ruled for 38 years. An election commission official in Luanda said the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) had won just over 64 percent ...

Luanda (AFP) - Angola's next president, Joao Lourenco, is a ruling party loyalist and former general who endured several years out of favour after angling for the top job in the 1990s. Since then, Lourenco, 63, has convinced key regime players he is the right man to succeed Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who has ruled the oil-rich southwest African na ...

Luanda (AFP) - Angola's ruling MPLA won this week's election, a poll official announced Thursday, with party candidate Joao Lourenco now set to succeed President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos who has ruled for 38 years. An election commission official in Luanda said the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) had won just over 64 percent ...

Yaoundà (AFP) - FIFA has appointed a committee to run crisis-hit Cameroonian football as doubts grow over the country's ability to host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Cameroon is struggling to complete the necessary infrastructure projects to host the three-week event. The organisation of the tournament has been complicated by a power strug ...

Luanda (AFP) - Angola's ruling MPLA won this week's election, a poll official announced Thursday, with party candidate Joao Lourenco now set to succeed President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos who has ruled for 38 years. An election commission official in Luanda said the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) had won just over 64 percent ...

Rabat (AFP) - Morocco's Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani vowed Thursday to adopt a strategy to tackle sexual harassment after attacks that have shocked the North African country. Footage of a woman being assaulted by six bare-chested teenagers on a bus last week sparked outrage less than two weeks after a video emerged online of men hounding ...

Kigali (AFP) - Burundians continue to flee their country due to ongoing threats and abuses despite their government's insistence that many are returning, according to a report published Thursday. The report by the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) says that members of the Imbonerakure -- the ruling party's youth wing which has been ...

Freetown (AFP) - The death toll from the flood and mudslide disaster that struck Sierra Leone's capital in mid-August now exceeds 500 and 810 people are listed as missing, the government said Thursday. The death toll has risen slightly above 500, Vice President Victor Bockarie Foh said at a ceremony to receive relief supplies provided by Japan ...

Lahore (Pakistan) (AFP) - South African skipper Faf du Plessis will lead a World XI team to play three Twenty20 matches in Pakistan, authorities announced Thursday, a huge coup for a cricket-mad country eager to revive the international game. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi announced the Proteas captain's participation along wi ...

Buenos Aires (AFP) - South Africa have made one injury-enforced change from the team that defeated Argentina last weekend for the Rugby Championship return match in Salta Saturday. An ankle injury rules out scrum-half Ross Cronje and experienced Francois Hougaard comes off the bench to replace him in the starting line-up. Rudy Paige has been ...

Lusaka (AFP) - Zambian police on Thursday barred entry to the capital's cathedral where opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema had been due to make his first public appearance since being freed from jail. Hichilema was released last week after four months in custody on treason charges, in a case widely seen as highlighting a crackdown on dissent b ...

Luanda (AFP) - Angolans on Thursday awaited results from an election to chose a successor to President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, a secretive and much-criticised leader stepping down after 38 years in power. The electoral commission was expected to release first partial results later Thursday, with the ruling MPLA widely predicted to retain power ...

Nairobi (AFP) - Tanzania's main human rights group on Thursday criticised the government for its harassment of opposition lawmakers, three of whom have been arrested over the past week. In a statement, the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) said the string of arrests amounted to a violation of political and civic rights in a country where ...

A highly toxic weedkiller not authorised for use in the EU is being exported to developing countries from a UK factory. Paraquat, a pesticide so lethal that a single sip can be fatal, has caused thousands of accidental deaths and suicides globally, and was outlawed by EU states in 2007. But Swiss pesticide manufacturer Syngenta is export ...

Until recently, public transportation in Cairo, Freetown, Lagos, Nairobi and many other African cities was chaotic and accident prone. The mostly unreliable local taxicabs did not alleviate the situation. But Uber rsquo;s entry into the continent could be changing the narrative. Uber, the global ride-sharing company that relies on smartph ...

Since relocating to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) two years ago, FirminAgossou has had a variety of options when traveling home to Benin. Employed in the eastern city of Goma, he often returns to Cotonou to spend time with his family. The quickest way would be by car from Goma to Kigali and from there take a five-hour direct ...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United States is wrestling with its Security Council partners over renewing the UN peacekeeping mission mandate in Lebanon, which Washington is calling to strengthen against the opinions of Paris and Moscow. Annual renewal of the mission's mandate, which expires at the end of August, is normally unevent ...

A few years ago, more than half a century after the concept was first proposed, the government of C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire completed construction of the Henri Konan B eacute;di eacute; Bridge, a span over the Eacute;bri eacute; Lagoon linking the north and south of Abidjan, the country rsquo;s main city. The project became a reality after the ...

As the director general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Li Yong leads a specialised agency that promotes industrial development, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability. Recently in New York, Mr. Yong took part in a special meeting on ldquo;innovation in infrastructure development and sustaina ...