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In an exclusive interview with France 24, Sudan’s interim Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok urged the Trump administration to take Sudan off the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, claiming that it was blocking much needed foreign financial aid and debt renegotiation.
Read More »Anglophone separatists boycott Cameroon talks to end insurgency
Government-led talks to end a two-year-old separatist insurgency in Cameroon faltered before they began on Monday as separatists and opposition politicians boycotted the event.
Read More »Moroccan journalist receives one-year prison sentence for ‘illegal abortion’
Moroccan journalist Hajar Raissouni was sentenced in a Rabat court Monday to one year in jail for having had an “illegal abortion” and sexual relations outside marriage.
Read More »Boko Haram’s escalating cruelty in Lake Chad region
Earlier this year, an image of three women holding babies whose ears had been brutally severed made the rounds on social media. The image pointed to escalating levels of cruelty practiced by Boko Haram. The group, which pledged their allegiance to the IS group, has killed thousands and displaced nearly …
Read More »Au Maroc, la journaliste Hajar Raissouni condamnée à un an de prison pour « avortement illégal »
Interpellée fin août, la journaliste Hajar Raissouni a été condamnée, lundi, à un an de prison ferme par le tribunal de Rabat pour « avortement illégal ». Son gynécologue a écopé lui, de deux ans de prison ferme.
Read More »Ouverture du « grand dialogue national » pour régler la crise séparatiste au Cameroun
Entre espoir et scepticisme, le « grand dialogue national » s’est ouvert, lundi, à Yaoundé, capitale du Cameroun, malgré l’absence des principaux chefs séparatistes.
Read More »‘The more I’m able to empower myself, the more I can do things that sustain the world as a whole’
In today’s edition, we speak to Kelvin Doe who once went by the name DJ Focus. The young adult from Freetown, Sierra Leone built his own radio station from scraps at the age of 11 and then went on to become the youngest participant in the « Visiting Practitioner’s Program » at …
Read More »Senegal’s Sall pardons ex-Dakar mayor and charismatic rival
Senegal President Macky Sall on Sunday pardoned one of his chief political rivals, the charismatic former mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, who was jailed in 2018 on corruption charges.
Read More »L’opposant sénégalais et ancien maire de Dakar Khalifa Sall gracié et libéré
Le président sénégalais Macky Sall a gracié l’un de ses principaux rivaux politiques, Khalifa Sall, l’ancien maire de Dakar en détention depuis mars 2017, et condamné en août 2018 pour détournement de fonds publics et faux.
Read More »Des bolides de l’Équato-Guinéen Teodorin Obiang aux enchères en Suisse
Vingt-cinq bolides, saisis dans une enquête pour blanchiment visant Teodorin Obiang, fils du président de Guinée équatoriale, sont aux enchères dimanche en Suisse. Le produit de la vente doit revenir à un programme d’aide au pays ouest-africain.
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