Africa

Two women died in shark attack while swimming in the Egyptian Red Sea, the country’s Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Authorities discovered the body of a Romanian tourist in her 40s hours after an attack that left a 68-year-old Austrian woman dead, two sources told Reuters According to the …

Six people have been sentenced to death in the Nigerian Muslim state of Bauchi and neighboring Plateau state, in two separate cases. In the mainly Muslim state of Bauchi, an upper Sharia court sentenced three men to death by stoning after they were found guilty of homosexual acts against children. …

Tunisian President Kais Saied released details of the new constitutional draft that would significantly expand his powers, local media reported. Written by a commission whose members he himself appointed, the draft Constitution is cut, unsurprisingly, for Kaïs Saïed. Under the proposals, most political power would be exercised by the president. …

Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, tempered comments he made last week following the deaths of at least 23 migrants on the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, the BBC reported. He told a Spanish online newspaper (La Sexta) that he had not seen pictures of corpses at …

Cameroonian MPs on Wednesday adopted bill on medically assisted procreation (PMA), a set of clinical practices to help people who have difficulty having a child. The clinical process already practiced for several years in Cameroon, but until now there was no legal framework in this area, reports RFI. The project …

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni banned top military commanders, including his son and Commander of the Land Forces (CLF), Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, from commenting on security and foreign policy issues on social media platforms, reported Daily Monitor. The decision follows a meeting the Commander-in-Chief held with service chiefs last weekend, …

The second phase of the regional electricity market will be launched by the end of 2023, Professor Honoré Bogler, Chairman of the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) said. He made this statement during a capacity workshop to strengthen the communicators of the regulatory bodies of the member countries of …

Ukraine is willing to resume grain exports to Africa and other parts of the world if Russia ends the naval blockade in the Black Sea, the country’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with Tanzania’s privately owned The Citizen newspaper. According to Minister Dmytro Kuleba, although many African …

Senegalese President Macky Sall congratulated Khaby Lame, now the most followed personality on the TikTok social network with 144.7 million subscribers. On his Twitter account, President Macky Sall sent his congratulatory messages to Khaby Lame who becomes the world most-followed TikToker compared to the American creator of TikTok Charli D’Amelio. …

A protester was killed during anti-military protests in Khartoum on Wednesday after security forces used excessive force, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) said. “A martyr, who was not identified, has died after he was shot in the chest by the forces of darkness”, the doctors committee said in …