DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Hundreds of people took to the streets of Niger capital Niamey on Sunday to protest against the presence of French troops in the country. During the protest, which was organized by civil society organizations operating under the umbrella of the M62 movement, they marched from Toumo Square to the National Assembly. [&helli...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall Saturday named Amadou Ba as the country’s prime minister, the presidency announced on Saturday. Sall had abolished the prime minister post following his reelection in 2019. Last year, he cited his duties as the chairman of the African Union to justify the restoration of the position bu...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s government and the country’s powerful UGTT union has signed a deal boosting public sector salaries, three months after a strike that paralysed the country. The deal involves a five percent annual hike to public sector wages every year until 2025. The head of the UGTT, Noureddine Taboubi, told reporte...
Kidal, Mali (AFP): On a sandy street in a northern Malian town, armed guards take turns at a checkpoint next to two unmarked pickup trucks as dusk falls and the sky slowly fills with stars. The men are not army troops but fighters from the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) — a predominantly Tuareg alliance […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Hundreds of passengers on domestic flights in Nigeria were stranded Thursday, creating chaos at airports after the Civil Aviation Authority suspended Azman Air’s operations certificate. “We suspended the operation because our Airline Transport license Certificate (ATL) expired but we are in the process of renew...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has said a decree is ready to call voters to legislative elections on Dec. 17. “A draft decree to hold elections on Dec. 17 is ready,” Saied said during a Cabinet meeting held in the capital Tunis on Thursday. “Personal voting does not involve exclusion of anyone,” […]
BAIDOA, Somalia (AA) – At least 18 al-Shabaab men were killed in military operations in central Somalia, the army said on Thursday. A key base used by the group was also destroyed in raids by the Somali military in Buq Aqable, a district in the Hiran region. The operation successfully targeted “stations, offices and other […]
Lagos, Nigeria – (AFP): From Kenya and Nigeria to South Africa and Uganda, Queen Elizabeth’s death has met with an outpouring of official condolences, mourning and memories of her frequent visits to Africa during her seven decades on the throne. However, the British monarch’s passing also revived a sensitive debate over Afric...
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AA) – Mauritania and Algeria have signed 26 cooperation agreements in the fields of energy, security, fishery, higher education and vocational training. This came during the meetings of a joint committee co-chaired by Mauritanian Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal Massoud and his Algerian counterpart Ayman Ben Abdel Rahm...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Ivory Coast has called for an urgent summit of West African leaders over the continued detention of 46 of its soldiers in Mali. Mali’s transitional government arrested 49 Ivorian soldiers upon their arrival in the capital Bamako in July. Bamako accused the soldiers of possessing weapons and ammunition of war “...
