Category: Rest of Africa

Dos Santos, whose father ruled Angola for 38 years until 2017, was sued by Unitel, a telecoms operator in the country.

Negotiations between Ethiopia and downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan have yet to produce an agreement since construction of the $4.2 billion project began in 2011.

The RSF, once a paramilitary force allied to the Sudanese Armed Forces (Saf), expanded its violence into Jezira State on Sunday night after attacking the Wad Madan area, some 230 kilometres south of the capital Khartoum.

Haniyeh arrived "in the Egyptian capital Cairo to hold discussions with Egyptian officials over the developments of the Zionist (Israeli) aggression on the Gaza Strip and other matters", the group said in a statement. 

The bank, which lends exclusively to African countries, however said that existing Ethiopian staff will continue working under its employment contracts and their Ethiopian office manned by an officer-in-charge. International staff will work remotely in the meantime.

The outcome of the December 10-12 poll was widely expected after the former army chief with a fondness for infrastructure mega-projects campaigned against a small field of relative unknowns.

With the party that led the decades-old struggle against apartheid fast losing support, the 81-year-old Zuma launched a bitter new attack on current president and ANC leader Cyril Ramaphosa.

The foreign ministry said it was "gravely concerned" by reports that some South African nationals have joined the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to fight in Gaza or are considering doing so.

Representatives from other African nations will be at Madagascar's biggest stadium for the inauguration.

The court of first instance in the capital Abidjan on Friday ordered the suspension of the congress, which had been planned for Saturday to elect a new Democratic Party leader before a presidential election in 2025.