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Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has defended a currency swap that sparked protests and cash shortages, but ordered old 200-naira notes to remain in circulation in a bid to ease scarcity. Nigeria has been struggling with a shortage in physical cash since the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) began to swap old bills ...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): The authorities in Mali have begun a crackdown on hookah smoking after giving a grace period to shisha bars to adjust to a ban. The country’s anti-drug agency says it has carried out dozens of arrests in the capital Bamako and seized water pipes after the six-month moratorium expired. Bars where small […]
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): When Tolulope Akande-Sadipe decided to run for a second term to represent her constituency in Nigeria’s parliament, she knew her life could be in danger. During the last elections in 2019, when former army general Muhammadu Buhari won the presidency for a second and last term allowed by the constitution, her campaig...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition coalition has slammed a string of “repressive” arrests mainly targeting critics of President Kais Saied, including members of the progressive Islamic Ennahdha movement. Police in the North African country — birthplace of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings — have arrested...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali army has killed over 200 rebels with ties to the al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group al-Shabaab during military operations that took place in three states and liberated large swaths of territory from the group, a senior government official has said. Somalia’s Information Minister Daud Aweis said at a news co...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s progressive Islamic mainstream opposition movement Ennahda has condemned what it called the systematic abuse of critics in the North African country amid a months-long political crisis. Tunisian security forces have detained Ennahda leader and former Justice Minister Noureddine Bhiri and director of Mosaique Rad...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — AFP Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups have called for their reinstatement into two key regional blocs following a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The top diplomats of Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso said in a joint statement that they had [&...
Kano, Nigeria — AFP It was just after dawn and tempers were fraying outside the First Bank in the northern Nigerian town of Kano, where scores of customers jostled to get on a waiting list to withdraw money. Long before the branch had opened its doors, crowds had formed of people desperate to take out […]
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco has called back its ambassador to former colonial ruler France, the North African kingdom’s Foreign Ministry announced. The termination of Mohamed Benchaaboun’s duties in Paris came in accordance with royal instructions, the ministry said in a statement without providing further details. This mov...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Nations humanitarian partners in Somalia and its government have sought $2.6 billion to assist millions of people in the drought-hit Horn of Africa country. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has estimated that 8.25 million people — nearly half of Somalia’s popul...
