Algiers, Algeria (AFP): An Algerian court on Sunday sentenced prominent journalist Ihsane El Kadi to three years in prison for “foreign financing of his business” in a case denounced by rights groups. El Kadi, one of the last independent media bosses in the North African nation as director of the Maghreb Emergent news website and [...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Sudanese leaders have postponed the signing of an agreement to resume a short-lived democratic transition, an official said on Saturday, amid continued disagreement between military factions. A coup in October 2021 led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had derailed the transition to civilian-led rule that began follow...
ANKARA (AA) – Burkina Faso has expelled reporters of French newspapers Le Monde and Liberation, French media reported on Sunday. Sophie Douce from Le Monde Afrique and Agnes Faivre from Liberation were ordered by the Burkinabe authorities to leave the capital Ouagadougou on Saturday, according to Le Monde. The notification by agents from...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the Tunisian authorities to drop criminal investigation measures against 17 political prisoners and critics of the country’s president, Kais Saied. “The criminal investigation is among the most nakedly aggressive attacks by authorities on dissent since a p...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s Livestock Ministry has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm in the village of Potou near the northwestern town of Louga. The disease has killed 500 birds at the farm in Potou, while some 1,229 bird deaths have so far been recorded at […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudanese authorities on Saturday reported the death of 14 workers in the collapse of a gold mine north of the country. The state news agency SUNA, citing a security official, said the bodies of four workers were recovered on Saturday from the collapsed mine in Wadi Halfa near Sudan’s border with […]
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): A Senegal court on Thursday handed a two-month suspended sentence to opposition leader Ousmane Sonko in a libel case. His lawyers say the sentence does not rule him out of the 2024 presidential election. The 48-year-old was found guilty of defaming Tourism Minister Mame Mbaye Niang, a member of President Macky Sall’...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – The Algerian ambassador to France resumed duties after several weeks of consultations with his government over a wanted activist. The Algerian Embassy in Paris said in a statement on Thursday that Said Moussi returned to his post in Paris and met with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary-General Anne-Marie...
BANTAKOKOUTA, Senegal (AFP): Mohamed Bayoh climbed into the deep, pitch-black hole, hoping to emerge with a nugget that would change his life. The 26-year-old Guinean is one of thousands of West Africans who have flocked to remote eastern Senegal in search of gold. The rush for the precious metal has dramatically transformed Bantakokouta, a to...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Fatalities in terrorist attacks in Africa’s Sahel region have surged by over 2,000% over the past 15 years, according to a recent report. “The Sahel region in sub-Saharan Africa is now the epicenter of terrorism … accounting for more terrorism deaths in 2022 than both South Asia and the Middle East […]
