Arlit, Niger (AFP): Towering mounds dot the desert landscape in northern Niger’s Arlit region, but there is little natural about them — they are heaps of partially radioactive waste left from four decades of operations at one of the world’s biggest uranium mines. An ambitious 10-year scheme costing $160 million is underway to...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Tanzania Thursday for an official tour of the East African nation, where she will meet President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Harris and her delegation landed at the Julius Nyerere International Airport on Wednesday night after spending three days in Ghana. US ambassador to Tanzania ...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Burkina Faso plans to resume diplomatic relations with North Korea, the country’s Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday. The decision will allow the two countries “to maintain exemplary bilateral cooperation in several areas,” Foreign Affairs Minister Olivia Rouamba said at the end of a Council of Minis...
Goma, DR Congo (AFP): A brilliant setting sun illuminates the sky above the mosque of Munigi, a small clapboard building in troubled eastern DR Congo serving Muslims displaced by the M23 conflict. Worshippers are preparing to break their Ramadan fast in the camp, on a lava-strewn field just 10 kilometres from the front lines. Their circumstanc...
ROME (AA) – Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani spoke by phone Tuesday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about political and economic developments in Tunisia. During the call, Tajani, who is also Italy’s deputy premier, underlined the importance of constant coordination between his government and the US regarding Tunisi...
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AA) – Mauritania has denied participation in an environmental training program hosted by Israel. On Sunday, Israeli television channel i24News had reported that Mauritania was among participants in a training program hosted by Israel to help African countries deal with desertification in the Sahara region. “Among ...
Om Eshr, Sudan (AFP): As generations of Sudanese have done before her, Wissal Abdel Ghany crouched next to a fire to prepare a traditional drink, a thirst-quenching favourite enjoyed during the fasting month of Ramadan. In Sudan, the arduously made “helo-murr”, which means “bittersweet”, is a drink synonymous with the I...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s military government said on Monday it had suspended France 24 broadcasts after the TV station ran an interview with the head of the al-Qaeda’s North African wing. The channel aired an interview with Yezid Mebarek, head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), earlier this month. Mebarek, also known [&hell...
ACCRA, Ghana (AA) – US Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday pledged $100 million to help combat the threat of violent extremism and instability in Sahel countries. “We recognize Ghana’s significant contribution to the Sahel and I thank you for your leadership there,” said Harris during her speech at the Jubilee House ...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has called on troops to “end” support for authoritarian leaders as talks begin on military reforms, part of a prolonged transition to civilian rule. Burhan had seized power in a 2021 coup that derailed a short-lived democratic transition following the 2019 ouste...
