Category: Rest of Africa

Senegal's President Macky Sall on Saturday postponed the country's February 25 presidential election, announcing he had canceled the relevant electoral law in a televised address to the nation, citing a dispute over the candidate list.

Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his nemesis Mohamed Hamdan Daglo Hemedti were set to meet in Djibouti on December 28.

The mission was closed in 1992. The Russian ambassador to Ivory Coast, Alexei Saltykov, said Russian President Vladimir Putin would name the new envoy.

Ngema died just as the 1992 movie, developed with legendary jazz musician Hugh Masekela, was making a return with a screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival classic section and a streaming release.

The fire had already been brought under control, but not fully put out.

Alice Nderitu, the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide says in her latest situational update that there has to be pressure on warring sides -- the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to end the violence that has seen...

The Abidjan-headquartered lender said existing Ethiopian staff would continue working under its employment contracts, and the Ethiopian office manned by an officer-in-charge.

It is a harsh lesson learned in the past eight months since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a war against Sudan Armed Forces (Saf) in Khartoum.

The French exit from Niger leaves hundreds of US military personnel, and a number of Italian and German troops, remaining in the country.

The brutal conflict broke out in mid-April between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), killing more than 12,000 people and displacing millions.