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South Africa Denies Work Permit Renewal For 250,000 Zimbabweans
South Africa says temporary permits of around a quarter of a million Zimbabweans working in the country would not be renewed when their visas expire next month. Some 250,000 Zimbabweans fleeing political and economic crises at home were granted four-year work visas in 2009. The visas have been repeatedly extended, but the government announced there…
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Bomb Explosion Near Mogadishu School Kills At Least 8
No less than eight people have been killed and 17 injured, including schoolchildren, in a car bombing in Somalia’s capital, officials and witnesses said. The bombing was claimed by the armed group al-Shabab in the early hours of Thursday, who said it intended to strike a United Nations security convoy passing near a school in…
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Armed Rebels Kill Over 12 People In Northern DRC
At least a dozen people have died after armed rebels attack displaced civilians in the northeastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a military spokesperson. Jules Ngongo, a spokesperson for Ituri’s military government, told the Reuters news agency that suspected fighters from the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO)…
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Central, West Africa Rank Highest In Child Soldier Recruitment
Central and West Africa regions have the highest number of child soldiers in the world, as well as the most underage victims of sexual violence, according to a report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Several countries in the Sahel– a semi-arid region that stretches from northern Senegal through parts of Mauritania, Mali, Burkina…
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Nigeria Signs Development Assistance Deal With America
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday signed the $2.1 billion Development Objectives Assistance Agreement (DOAG) with Africa’s most populous country. The agreement amongst others was signed at a meeting in the presidential villa with hopes of broadening ties as persistent unrest and human rights concerns prompt calls to revamp the US relationship with Nigeria.…
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ECOWAS Places Sanctions On Members Of Malian Government
Over 150 members of Mali’s transitional government, including the interim Prime Minister Choguel Maiga, have as of today been sanctioned by the ECOWAS in a bid to enforce a return to constitutional rule in the West African country. In May, Mali junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita staged a coup that saw the arrest of transitional…
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49 Paramilitary Police Killed In Attack On Burkina Faso Defence Outpost
At least 49 gendarmes and 4 civilians have been killed in a brutal attack by gunmen at the tri-border region in Burkina Faso. News of the attack comes two days after another assault was reported in the area near Niger and Mali, in which seven police officers were killed. Security Minister Maxime Kone told state…
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Terrorist Group Claim Responsibility For Bombing In Uganda’s Capital
An Islamist extremist group, known as the “Islamic State” (IS) have claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in the heart of Uganda’s capital Kampala on Tuesday that killed several people and injured scores more. At least three civilians were killed and 33 others wounded in twin suicide bombings that took place within three minutes of each other on…
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France Returns 26 Artefacts Stolen From Benin
President Emmanuel Macron has facilitated the return of a total of 26 treasures stolen from Africa back in the colonial era. Benin President Patrice Talon and Culture Minister Jean-Michel Abimbola travelled to Paris to bring home the artefacts that were snatched by French forces 130 years ago. Talon said he felt “overwhelming emotion” at recovering…
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11 Soldiers Killed In Latest Violent Raid In Mali
Suspected terrorists have killed 11 soldiers defending a village in a remote part of southwest Niger near another village where 69 people were recently killed, according to the state defence ministry. The heavily armed attackers approached in a convoy of cars and motorbikes on Thursday afternoon, clashing with soldiers stationed outside the village of Dagne…