L’éradication du Sida est possible d’ici 2030 si les leaders mondiaux allouent à la lutte contre la pandémie les ressources nécessaires et veillent à la protection des droits humains. C’est la conclusion du rapport 2024 de l’ONUSIDA qui note des progrès mais partout dans le monde, les financements diminuent. Près …

Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is willing to explore avenues towards a “peaceful, negotiated political solution” to the devastating war with the Sudanese army through proposed US-mediated talks in Switzerland on August 14. 

The desperate search for survivors of a landslide in southern Ethiopia continued on Tuesday. At least 229 people were killed, swept away in its path on Monday. Also, in the wake of over six weeks of anti-government protests in Kenya, scores of people were arrested in neighboring Uganda as police …

Plus de 200 personnes ont péri dans un glissement de terrain survenu lundi après de fortes pluies dans une zone difficile d’accès de l’Etat régional d’Ethiopie du Sud, un bilan qui reste provisoire alors que les opérations de secours se poursuivent. Ce glissement de terrain est le plus meurtrier jusqu’ici publiquement …

The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia rose to at least 229, a local official in the remote Gofa Zone said on Tuesday, as the search for survivors continued into the second day. The landslides occurred on Sunday evening and Monday morning in a remote mountainous region after …

It’s been over a year since two South African engineers were jailed in Equatorial Guinea. The UN says they are being arbitrarily detained while some suspect their detention could be linked to an ongoing standoff between Pretoria and Malabo. Frederik Potgieter and Peter Huxham were arrested in February 2022, just …

Ghana has reached an agreement in principle with two bondholder groups to restructure some $13bn of international debt last month, marking a key step in the country’s economic recovery under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan deal. But the months-long deadlock in negotiations in the run up to the deal …

Malgré un important dispositif policier déployé mardi dans les rues de Kampala, la capitale de l’Ouganda, de petits groupes de jeunes ont bravé une interdiction de manifester pour dénoncer la corruption. Inspirées par le soulèvement de la jeunesse au Kenya, les organisateurs de ces manifestations ont annoncé vouloir marcher en …

Accusé d’être l’un des organisateurs de la « tentative de coup d’État » en Sierra Leone, le 26 novembre, un ancien garde du corps de l’ex-président Ernest Bai Koroma, Amadu Koita Makalo, a été condamné à 182 ans de prison. Dix autres personnes ont également été reconnues coupables de trahison et de …

In Nigeria, Fola David, has made history by surpassing the existing Guinness World Record (GWR) for the world’s largest drawing by an individual. The massive artwork, spanning an impressive 850 square meters, surpassed the previous record of 629.98 square meters held by Ravi Soni from India.