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Cameroonian authorities have granted the Chinese mining giant Sinosteel Corporation, the very first license to exploit an iron deposit, indicates a document signed by President Paul Biya. According to the document, the Chinese firm will have to pay the State FCFA 22.9 billion in annual revenues. Cameroon is paving the …

At least 15 people, mostly women and children, have died in Uganda after heavy rains caused landslides in Kasese in the west of the country. A spokesperson for the Uganda Red Cross says the landslides in Rukoki injured six people. The floodwaters also washed away some houses and an as …

A Moroccan parliamentary group has proposed a bill that would see women granted paid menstrual leave days. If made law, the country would be the second in Africa, after Zambia, to grant women menstrual leave. In what would be a first for the Middle East-North Africa region, the proposal by …

According to a report by the Financial Times (FT), which met Ukrainian hacker Nikita Knysh, the technique used by his team is simple: create false profiles of women on social networks to flirt with Russian soldiers and obtain their geographical position. This is called hybrid warfare. The conflict between Russia …

Angolan Constitutional Court has rejected a petition by the main opposition party, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), to annul the results of last month’s general election. The court ruled that Unita’s complaint did not meet the requirements to allow the nullification of the results. Unita filed …

After releasing three of the 49 Ivorian soldiers, Malian authorities said the only way to release the other 46 was for “Abidjan to officially apologize” to the people of Mali. Arrested on July 10 in Bamako and accused of being “mercenaries,” these 49 soldiers would normally be tried for “attempting …

Five youths posing as jihadists set fire to 13 houses in a village in the jihadist-hit northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, the BBC reported. The young men pretended to be jihadists so as to steal from locals, the authorities said. “One of the men was identified and seized by …

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has indicated that her country may end its military support to Mali if the country does not provide for the security needs of its troops. This is a warning to Malian transitional authorities. The head of German diplomacy, Annalena Baerbock, addressed authorities in Bamako directly …

Several African leaders on Monday denounced the absence of Western leaders at a summit in Rotterdam in support of Africa’s adaptation to climate change, pleading for more funds two months before COP27 in Egypt. “I cannot fail to note with bitterness the absence of the leaders of the industrialized world”, …

At least 35 civilians were killed and 37 injured in northern Burkina Faso on Monday when a vehicle in a convoy hit an improvised explosive device (IED), the interim government said in a statement. The escorted supply convoy heading to the capital, Ouagadougou, hit the IED between the northern towns …