Category: Rest of Africa

Speaking on Niger's national television, Togo Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said he had reached an agreement "on the content and timing of the transition" with Niger's junta-appointed Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine and Foreign Minister Bakary Yaou Sangare.

Sonko was struck off Senegal's electoral register after being sentenced in June to two years' imprisonment for morally corrupting a young person. 

"Parts of war-ravaged Sudan are at a high risk of slipping into catastrophic hunger conditions by next year's lean season," the WFP said in a statement.

Kidnapping for ransom is common in Nigeria and foreign workers have been targeted in the past by criminal gangs, especially those working in remote mining or construction projects.

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Federal police released an official statement on Facebook announcing that Taye was arrested on Tuesday for "collaborating with anti-peace forces who want to destroy Ethiopia".

The symbolic ceremony marks the official end of the mission, the mission's spokesperson Fatoumata Kaba said, even though some elements remain in the country.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), the regional bloc in the Horn of Africa, said on Sunday that Mohamed Hamdani Daglo ‘Hemedti’, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), had agreed to meet with the nemeses in Sudan Armed Forces (Saf) led by Abdel...

The Pretoria High Court ordered President Cyril Ramaphosa to set up an inquiry to probe whether the tumultuous accession of King Misuzulu of the Zulu was done in line with customary laws.

The bloc had met in Djibouti on Saturday to discuss the raging conflict in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (Saf) led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Mohamed Hamdani Daglo 'Hemedti'.