A jihadist alliance uniting Malian insurgents loyal to Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 11 soldiers close to Mali’s border with Burkina Faso, its first such attack. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) announced their merger in a video released earlier this month showing five jihadist leaders seated together, led … Read more
Angola have appointed Brazil’s Roberto Bianchi as their new coach, the football federation said on Wednesday. The 50-year-old, who has previously worked in Jordan, Spain, Montenegro and Indonesia replaces Jose Kilamba, who had been coaching Angola since 2015. Bianchi, the fourth Brazilian to coach Angola, has been coach of Angolan club Petro de Luanda since … Read more
The president of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika has designated the Speaker of the People’s National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) Dr Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa to represent him in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Ghana’s independence which will take place in Accra (Ghana) on Monday, March 6. This was confirmed in a communiqué issued … Read more
Three jihadist groups operating in the Sahel region have merged to form one single organisation, Mauritania’s private news agency ANI said Thursday, citing a video distributed by the Islamists. Among the groups joining the merger south of the Sahara are Mali’s Al-Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and Al-Murabitoun, led by Algerian extremist Mokhtar Belmokhtar. The new movement … Read more
Gambian President Adama Barrow is expected in Senegal for a three-day official visit. It is Barrow’s first official visit outside of the Gambia since taking his oath in Senegal on January 20. The Minister of Communication at the Senegalese Presidency, Elhadji Hamidou Kassé, confirmed the visit on Wednesday. Barrow arrives on Thursday and departs on … Read more
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has ended a 10-day tour of Africa. Mr Infantino began the trip with a three-day visit to Johannesburg, South Africa, where a two-day forum was organised on how the needs of the African continent and individual nations could best be served. The tour continued with trips to Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Rwanda, … Read more
Trade has picked up on a contested road in Western Sahara on Morocco’s border with Mauritania after tensions eased between troops and separatists, officials and truck drivers said Wednesday. Moroccan television said truck drivers were no longer being deterred by the presence of armed Polisario Front separatists who had been patrolling the road. “Their number … Read more
FIFA president Gianni Infantino vows to honour a promise to hike Africa’s World Cup finals berths to nine or ten during a visit to the impoverished West African state of Mauritania this week. “We want everyone to have the right to dream and how better to do that that taking part in a major event … Read more
Tanzania on Monday backed out of its plan to publish a list of names of gay people accused of selling sex online, saying this would “destroy evidence”. Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla had called a press conference on Monday to publicise the list, after announcing the plan earlier this month. “We cancelled the press conference. … Read more
France is to send a contingent of counterterror forces to help the army in Niger after militants ambushed a military patrol killing 16, the defence ministry said. The decision, announced late Saturday, was taken following a request from President Mahamadou Issoufou after Wednesday’s attack near the border with Mali. The deadly ambush, which took place … Read more
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take “urgent measures” following months of tensions with the Polisario independence movement in the disputed Western Sahara region. The king talked with U. N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, denouncing the Polisario Front, which for decades has sought self-determination for the desert region, according to … Read more
Kenya has been ranked top in Africa in cases of police shootings and killing of civilians according to a report by Amnesty International shows. The report indicates that by October 2016, a total of 122 extrajudicial killings had been reported in Kenya, out of 177 cases in Africa. However, the figure could have been hire … Read more
Speaker of the Parliament has called for an amendment of the constitution to completely ban homosexuality in Ghana. It is a fact known by all that Ghana’s “Akwaaba” is for all but homosexuals and other sorts of sexual deviants. However, there are still no specific stringent laws with which the practice seriously frowned upon in … Read more
Speaker of the Parliament has called for an amendment of Ghana’s constitution to completely ban homosexuality. It is a fact known by all that Ghana’s “Akwaaba” is for all but homosexuals and other sorts of sexual deviants. However, there are still no specific stringent laws with which the practice seriously frowned upon in the Ghanaian … Read more
A proposal by Zambian football authorities to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians has kicked off a dispute over homosexuality, which is illegal in the country and widely seen as immoral. The new draft constitution of the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) contains a clause banning discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, in line with … Read more
Thousands celebrated Saturday as new Gambian President Adama Barrow retook his oath of office, a month after he was sworn in across the border in neighbouring Senegal during a tense power struggle. February 18 is also the anniversary of The Gambia’s independence from Britain, but many are also calling the day the birth of a … Read more
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, managed to make reference to former Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, during his trip to the country on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Johnson in a 43-seconds video posted on his Twitter handle referred to Jammeh as ‘the guy who was really holding things up.’ Jammeh is currently in Equatorial … Read more
The Minister for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, has announced that Ghana’s soldiers in the ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia, will be downsized to 50 soldiers. He says this is in line with current arrangements within the mission to reduce the number of soldiers there, due to the success of the international Community in persuading long time … Read more
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, managed to make reference to former Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh, during his trip to the country on Tuesday, February 14, 2017. Johnson in a 43-seconds video posted on his Twitter handle referred to Jammeh as ‘the guy who was really holding things up.’ Jammeh is currently in Equatorial … Read more
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, says the government will roll out a programme to enforce the law on illegal mining. The programme, he explained, would be implemented in phases, with the first phase focusing on illegal miners who operate in rivers with heavy duty machines. Prof. Frimpong Boateng … Read more