United Nations, United States | AFP | Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila told the United Nations on Saturday that his country is moving towards holding elections but vowed to resist “foreign diktats” on setting a date for the historic vote. Addressing the General Assembly, Kabila appealed for support from …
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Hamburg, Germany | AFP | An international maritime tribunal Saturday backed Ghana in a dispute with Ivory Coast over a contested boundary that cuts through lucrative offshore oil fields. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea found that “Ghana did not violate the sovereign rights” of Ivory Coast by …
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Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Kenya were stripped Saturday of the right to host the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) after a CAF executive committee meeting in Accra. The decision was announced at a media conference after a one-day gathering of the African football “cabinet” headed by president Ahmad …
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Banjul, Gambia | AFP | The Gambia has pledged to abolish the death penalty in a clean break with the former regime of Yahya Jammeh, giving activists hope that more African states will follow its example. President Adama Barrow, elected in December 2016, signed a UN treaty on the abolition of …
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Museveni, world leaders come together to renew the urgency around ending AIDS as part of the Sustainable Development Goals New York, US | UNAIDS | The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, in collaboration with UNAIDS, brought together six heads of state or government to accelerate action and get countries on …
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Lome, Togo | AFP | Thousands of protesters in Togo Thursday joined demonstrations around the country for a second day against the rule of President Faure Gnassingbe, the scion of Africa’s oldest political dynasty. The atmosphere was tense amid accusations of harsh repression by security forces on Wednesday, when at least …
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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta will remain president until a new leader is sworn in, the country’s attorney general said Friday, seeking to assuage fears of a constitutional crisis if elections are delayed further. Questions have mounted over the status of the government after the Supreme Court annulled …
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VIDEO: Mugabe warns Trump on world peace, climate change New York, US| UNGA | Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe on Thursday addressed the 72nd United Nations General Assembly debate. He criticised the US President Trump on his stance on world peace and climate change. More than 100 world leaders, thousands of diplomats …
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Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | AFP | Authorities in Guinea-Bissau have blocked the September salary payments of nearly a third of the country’s 13,000 civil servants whom they suspect are ghost workers. “After a check made by a team in my department, we found that 4,000 bogus workers, who do not fulfil the …
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Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | An ex-wife of South African President Jacob Zuma was re-appointed a lawmaker in parliament on Thursday, in what is being seen as her latest step to secure the country’s presidency in two years’ time. The National Assembly confirmed in a statement that Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a …
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