Algiers (AFP) - Ailing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who rarely appears in public, received Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday, the APS news agency reported. Russian and Algerian state media published pictures of the meeting, which was closed to other news outlets. Bouteflika, who is 80 and has held office since 1999 ...

Addis Ababa (AFP) - Ethiopia will devalue its currency by 15 percent in a bid to boost demand for its major exports, a state-run media outlet reported Tuesday. Africa's second most-populous country is also one of its best economic performers, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimating in September that the economy had grown by 9 perce ...

Accra, Oct. 10, CDA Consult ndash; The Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria and the Coalition of African Lesbians, case thrown out of the African Court for Human and Peoples Rights. The African Court, on September 28, unanimously ruled that it is not able to give the Advisory Opinion which was requested of it by the two ...

LAGOS, October 10, 2017 -- Andela, the company that builds high-performing engineering teams with Africa rsquo;s most talented software developers, today announced that the company has secured $40M in Series C funding. The investment was led by pan-African venture firm CRE Venture Capital with participation from DBL Partners , Amplo , Salesforce ...

Kigali (AFP) - Rwanda's military has used asphyxiation, electric shock and mock executions to torture confessions out of detainees, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Tuesday. The rights watchdog confirmed 104 cases of people being illegally detained and tortured in Rwandan military detention centres between 2010 and 2016, according t ...

Cotonou (AFP) - Three senators from Haiti pause in reflection in front of a statue of their country's independence hero Toussaint Louverture in Allada, southern Benin, where he had his roots. The West African and Caribbean countries, separated by thousands of kilometres (miles) and ocean, share the same history but also the same religion -- vood ...