Italy's parliament on Wednesday approved a ramped up military presence in Niger by agreeing to send an initial 120 troops with 350 more to follow as Rome looks to stem migration and people trafficking of African migrants. This is a training mission in response to a request from Niger, not a combat mission, said Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti ...
Eritrea's highest representative has been expelled from The Netherlands, Dutch officials announced Wednesday in an ongoing diplomatic spat over the secretive African country's practice of collecting so-called diaspora tax from expatriates. In light of the continuous intimidation and force used in the collection of diaspora tax and its resulti ...
Economic growth in Africa picked up steam last year and is set to accelerate strongly in 2018, but massive investments are needed in infrastructure, the African Development Bank (ADB) said Wednesday. Growth in Africa rose from 2.2 percent in 2016 to 3.6 percent in 2017 and is likely to rise to 4.1 percent in 2018 and 2019, the ADB said in its ...
South Africa No.8 Duane Vermeulen will leave Toulon at the end of the season, club president Mourad Boudjellal said on Wednesday, with New Zealand's Jerome Kaino a rumoured replacement. Vermeulen, 31, will return to South African side Stormers, the club he left to join Toulon in 2015. Vermeulen is leaving, he will be replaced by an internati ...
Lungi Ngidi has one simple wish after making a sensational Test debut for South Africa. I'd like this to be a long career, he said on Wednesday after picking up the man of the match award in the second Test against India at SuperSport Park. Given his history with injuries, it is hardly a surprising ambition for the strapping 21-year-old. ...
Ghana's president, Nana Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday vowed no let-up in security after an investigation was launched into a possible extremist plot in the capital. Three men were charged on Tuesday with possession of explosives after suspected hand grenades were found in the Odorkor area of Accra. Ghana's inspector general of police, David Asante ...
Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema has rejected opposition claims that one of its activists died in custody after being tortured, and that some 200 of their number are under arrest. In an interview late Tuesday with French radio station RFI and France 24 television, Africa's longest-serving president confirmed the death in custody ...
There's nothing covert about Roxy -- a huge market in Abidjan selling counterfeit medicine, the scourge of Africa and the cause of around 100,000 deaths annually on the world's poorest continent. Located in the bustling Adjame quarter of Ivory Coast's main city and commercial hub, the haven for fake medicine has been targeted time and again by a ...
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