Africa

More than 700 Burkina Faso imams come together to condemn religious and ethnic intolerance in the country following a series of violent social media posts inciting “ethnic” Burkinabè to attack members of the Fulani community . At a meeting of clerics in the capital, Ouagadougou, the head of the Federation …

Rwanda is about to enter the closed stable of African natural gas producing countries as authorities announced the country’s plan to produce gas from Lake Kivu from the beginning of 2024. Rwanda has just launched the construction of a methane gas extraction and compression plant for transformation into natural gas …

Angolan Electoral Commission has declared President João Lourenço and his Marxist People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA party) the winners of last week’s national elections. The election commission gave MPLA a 51.17% majority after all votes were counted while its longtime opponent, the National Union for the Total …

A last tribute was paid on Sunday at Agostinho Neto memorial in Luanda by the Angolans to their former President José Eduardo dos Santos who died 8 July in Barcelona. Several African heads of state took part to the funeral, but six of the late’s children were absent. This funeral …

Tributes have poured in for the Kenyan cyclist Sule Kangangi who died while competing in a race in the US, the BBC reported. He had been participating in the Vermont Overland race on Saturday where he reportedly suffered a fatal crash, according to a statement by his team. The 33-year-old …

More than 340,000 people in Chad are affected by flooding due to torrential rains, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). “The floods destroyed nearly 2,700 hectares of crops and farmland, increasing food insecurity. The number of people affected by the …

Sudanese journalists created the country’s first independent professional union in decades, local media reported. It is a first in Sudan for decades as journalists have come together to create a union. They elected as president a journalist working for the French news agency, AFP. The union has an 1,164 members, …

A man was killed by a lion in the zoo of Accra, Ghana’s capital, after having entered the enclosure of the felines, the government agency in charge of the protection of wild animals said on Monday. “Around noon today, Accra Zoo authorities on routine patrol spotted a middle-aged man who …

A court in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, has convicted two men arrested last year in connection with the poisoning of six lions in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Kanungu district, Daily Monitor reported. It comes after the court heard evidence from 14 witnesses who pinned the convicts over the killing of …

João Lourenço, successor to late President José Eduardo dos Santos, is set to be re-elected for a new term and his party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), won the legislative elections with 51% of the vote. He won the election without “fanfare or trumpet” as the …