Africa
Polls opened in Senegal on Sunday for a parliamentary election that is set to determine if the country’s newly elected president can carry out ambitious reforms. More than 7 million registered voters in the West African country are choosing 165 lawmakers in the national assembly, where the party of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye currently does not hold ...
Voters in Botswana have rejected the country’s long-serving governing party in a result that marks a political earthquake in the diamond-rich southern African nation. The Botswana Democratic Party ...
The lawyer for a prominent Mozambique opposition figure has been shot dead in the capital, Maputo, along with an official from the same party. Elvino Dias was the ...
Monday, October 14, 2024, marked the 185th anniversary of a pivotal event in the history of North Africa, which is the first official adoption of the name "Algeria" ...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is hosting a regional workshop in Lagos from Oct. 8 to 11 to review and validate the Host Government Agreement ...
A French-Cameroonian writer, Charles Onana, is due to go on trial in Paris accused of complicity in contesting the 1994 Rwandan genocide. About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus ...
Tunisia's President Kais Saied, seen as a saviour by supporters and an autocrat by critics, is running for re-election on Sunday in a vote that he is all ...
With his major opponents imprisoned or left off the ballot, Tunisian President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning reelection on Sunday, five years after riding anti-establishment backlash to a first term. ...
The Atlantic Federation of African Press Agencies (FAAPA) held the 9th Executive Committee meeting on Thursday in Abidjan, in the presence of Côte d'Ivoire’s Minister of Communication, Media and Francophonie, and Government Spokesperson, Amadou Coulibaly. The opening session, themed "African News Agencies: What Strategies to Adopt in the Face of Artificial Intelligence?" featured key participants, ...
OCP Africa, a subsidiary of the OCP Group, a global leader in plant nutrition solutions and phosphate fertilizers, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Mali’s Ministry of ...
