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Uganda’s minister’s daughter, driver killed in
Firearms fired at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister on Tuesday, injuring the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, an army spokesman and local media reported.
Four motorcyclists opened fire on a vehicle with General Katumba Wamala, Minister of Labor and Transport, in the Kampala suburb of Kiasasi, the local television station NBS reported. Pictures circulating on social media showed Wamala with his mouth open, in obvious distress next to the car and his light pants…
On the front page: Laurent Gbagbo’s return becomes clearer
"The Secretary-General of the Ivorian Popular Front, Assoa Adou, lifted the veil on the day he returned to Abidjan for former President Laurent Gbagbo. Infodrome. It was yesterday during the anniversary ceremony for the former president's 76th birthday, a ceremony organized by the women of Offpi, the FPI's women's organization, in the triangle space in the city of Cocody. To believe that, Assoa Adou, the founder of FPI, will…
Somalia: Efforts high before Somaliland’s election results
Somalia: Efforts high before Somaliland's election results
HARGEISA, Somalia - Somaliland's main political parties are eagerly awaiting the outcome of Monday's election, which was closely monitored by a host of stakeholders, including observers, mainly from Africa, with few or no government representatives around the world.
North Western of SomaliaElection Commissioner Abdirashid Mohamud Ali…
Djibouti extradits TPLF fighters to Ethiopia for trial
Djibouti extradits TPLF fighters to Ethiopia for trial
DJIBOUTI - Djibouti has reportedly handed over a number of Tigray People's Liberation Front is fighting for Ethiopia, state media Fana reports, in what could further trigger hostilities between Addis Ababa and Mekele that have been in conflict.
Since November 2020, Ethiopia's national defense force has set up tents in the Tigray region in…
The volcanic lexicon – Life here
The Nyiragongo eruption and the earthquakes that followed it are at the heart of all conversations in the Democratic Republic of Congo: on the radio, in the newspapers or on the streets, we hear the words "volcano", "lava" all day, "eruption" or "earthquake" on the four national languages (Lingala, Kikongo, Swahili and Tshiluba), but each one expresses them differently.
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the coordination of Azawad movements wants
Following the second coup in Mali, the CMA decides to "not follow the current transition without a guaranteed compromise on its priorities." Present in the First Transitional Government and the Transitional National Council, the Legislature, the Coordination of Azawad's Movements (ex-Rebel CMA), calls for the effective application of the provisions of the Alliance's Peace and Reconciliation Agreement…
Kenya takes frustrations to diplomats over airspace closure, Somalia
Kenya is taking frustrations with diplomats over airspace closure, Somalia says
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia has not formally announced plans by Kenya to close the airspace completely due to alleged misuse of humanitarian planes and those transporting medical workers to Somalia, senior Mogadishu officials have claimed, just one day after Nairobi issued a statement.
According to Mogadishu, Kenya…
the reopening of the trial in sight
It has been eleven years on Tuesday that the CEO of Voix des Sans Voix, Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, and his companion, Fidèle Bazana Edadi, disappeared. They were murdered in the facilities of the police inspection. But this year, this date is also synonymous with hope, as some protagonists have acknowledged. The two men's relatives therefore now want a trial with the real sinners in the accused's box…
The Polisario Front leader was heard by the courts
As the diplomatic crisis continues between Morocco and Spain, the leader of the Polisario Front, the independent Sarhaoui Brahim Ghali, ill with Covid-19 and cancer, will be heard this Tuesday, June 1, by the judge of the 'National Audience Santiago Pedraz. He will be linked to two complaints against him in Spain. The character is at the heart of the dispute between Rabat and Madrid.…
In northwestern Nigeria, people are protesting
In Nigeria, another major kidnapping took place on Sunday at a Koran school in the state of Niger, northwest of the country, where 200 children went to school. No final assessment has yet been made on the number of young people reported missing. Against this unpleasant uncertainty, spontaneous protests have taken place in northwestern Nigeria over the past week, condemning the incessant attacks on the…