The leading opposition party in Equatorial Guinea has denounced the illegal detention of its activists, with dozens in prison despite a pledge last month by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema that they would be released. Obiang, who has ruled the West African state since 1979, issued a decree granting what he described as a total amnesty on July ...
Ninety-five percent of the world's lemur population is on the brink of extinction, making them the most endangered primates on Earth, a leading conservation group said Wednesday. The arboreal primates with pointed snouts and typically long tails are found only in Madagascar, where rainforest destruction, unregulated agriculture, logging and mi ...
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has sacked the country's economy minister, his office said Wednesday, after the monarch demanded urgent action on social issues in the North African nation hit by unrest over unemployment and graft. The king decided to dismiss Mohamed Boussaid after consulting with the head of the government , read a royal statement ...
Jean-Pierre Bemba, greeted Wednesday by tens of thousands of people on his return to DR Congo, is a former businessman and warlord who intends to return to politics after being convicted then acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes. Bemba, who became vice president of an interim government from 2003 to 2006, was born o ...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been elected the new chair of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) in Togo 39;s capital, Lome. He takes over the yearly rotational role from Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe, who faced a tough task in his 12-month tenure. Togolese opposition parties protested his continued stay in p ...
UNITED NATIONS, July 31, (Xinhua) - The Security Council is discussing the possible removal of sanctions against Eritrea given the latest positive developments in the Horn of Africa, said Swedish ambassador to the United Nations, whose country holds the Security Council presidency for the month of July. That issue is being discussed, Olof Skoo ...
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