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Officially, Tanzania's President John Maguful has died of heart problems. This was announced by the Vice President on television on Wednesday, March 17, after more than two weeks of unresolved absence from the head of state."Easily re-elected in October last year for another term with 84% of the vote, John Magufuli, 61, appeared for the last time in public on February 27 and points to World Africa, there were persistent…

A pirog turned on Lake Albert on Wednesday as it traveled with its passengers from the DRC to Uganda. Several people died. Several people have died and others are missing after a shipwreck that occurred at Lake Albert on Wednesday. A pirog turned around as he traveled with his passengers from the DRC to Uganda to buy or sell…

The leader of the Malian opposition is just subordinate to Paris at the age of 70. He had coronavirus and had just been evacuated to the French capital for treatment. Information confirmed to RFI by several leaders of his party, URD. His family also confirmed this to the AFP news agency. According to one of his relatives,…

The previous president of Burundi and the previous Excessive Consultant of the African Union for Mali and the Sahel have died on the age of 71. He died that evening whereas on his method to a hospital in Paris. Pierre Buyoya had contracted the coronavirus whereas in Bamako, Mali. He had been in hospital for per week in Mali's…

South African worldwide defender Motjeka Madisha died on Sunday 13 December in a automotive accident in Johannesburg, solely 25 years outdated. For the second time in lower than a month, South African soccer is in mourning. 20 days after Anele Ngcongca, one other "Bafana Bafana" was killed in a automotive accident on Sunday,…

In a 67-page report published on Tuesday, December 8, Amnesty International Nigeria is concerned about the fate of elderly people exposed to violence from Boko Haram and the Nigerian army in the state of Borno in the northeastern part of the country. This report describes the double punishment of this population persecuted by jihadists and victims of army abuse. A population completely invisible, according to this report entitled "My Bleeding Heart: The Lives of the Elderly Facing Conflict, Expulsion and Detention in…

Papa Bouba Diop died on Sunday, November 29, at the age of 42, after a long illness. The former Senegalese midfielder participated in the 2002 World Cup and finished top scorer for the "Lions" with three goals, including one against the French team, the reigning world champion. He was one of the faces of this golden generation…

The last democratically appointed Sudanese prime minister, Sadeq al-Mahdi, died on Thursday from Covid-19. The leader of the Umma party was overthrown by the former leader Omar al-Bashir's military coup in 1989. Achieved from Covid-19, as well as several members of his family and leaders of the Ummah Party, Sadeq al-Mahdi had…

Former Mauritanian head of state Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country's first democratically elected president in 2007 and overthrown by a coup the following year, died on the night of November 22 to 23 in a clinic in the capital, Nouakchott, of a long illness. A three-day national mourning has been observed since the morning of 23 November throughout the territory.…

Ivorian football mourning day. On Saturday 21 November, Augustin Sidy Diallo was removed at the age of 61. He was infected with Covid-19.