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Emmy Award-winning Nigerian director Joel Katchi Benson is Georja Calvin-Smith’s guest this week. He is still journeying alongside the families marked by the horrifying abduction of their daughters 12 years ago. The violation has faded from international headlines, but Benson has kept the community in his spotlight. He speaks of the …

Le général Abdourahamane Tiani, le chef de la junte au Niger, a remercié Moscou pour son aide militaire face à l’attaque de l’aéroport de Niamey, au terme de laquelle vingt assaillants ont été tués, dont « un Français », selon lui. Il a accusé nommément les présidents français, béninois et ivoirien d’avoir …

Le sélectionneur du Sénégal Pape Thiaw a été suspendu pour cinq matches de la CAF et condamné à une amende de 100 000 dollars après les incidents de la finale de la CAN contre le Maroc. Le camp marocain a aussi été sanctionné: Achraf Hakimi a écopé de deux matches …

A living legend in Senegal, wrestler Modou Lô, undisputed champion and ‘king of the arenas’, is training in Paris alongside professional boxer Souleymane Cissokho. The session offers a break from routine training and a chance to combine wrestling, boxing and future projects between athletes.

A jungle of weeds fills the Sudanese finance ministry’s courtyard in central Khartoum, where the army-backed government says it plans a gradual return after nearly three years of war. Even as war rages in the southern Kordofan region, Prime Minister Kamil Idris has announced that the government will return to …

Nigerian police ‍fired tear gas to ​disperse residents protesting in Lagos on January 28 over demolition work in ⁠one of Africa’s largest floating slums, the Makoko slum, that has displaced thousands of people. Lagos state officials, with the help of ​armed police and excavators, have been demolishing homes arguing that …

US Youtuber IShowSpeed is the latest member of the diaspora to be granted Ghanaian citizenship. The announcement that the 21-year-old American would become a national was made on January 28 as he wrapped up a wildly popular month-long tour of the continent. This is in line with Ghana’s strategy; part …

Rwanda has said it is suing the United Kingdom in the Hague Court to seek payments over an aborted, controversial migrant deal under which it was to host deported asylum seekers from the European country. The migrant deal entered into force on April 25, 2024. In July 2024, shortly after …

Ivory Coast says it will start buying back thousands of tons of unsold cocoa that have been sitting in warehouses and around the country’s ports since November 2026. The holdup has also seen the income of farmers stagnate in the world’s largest producer of the cacao. But many worry that …

Mozambique and TotalEnergies on Thursday relaunched a $20 billion gas project that was halted nearly five years ago after a deadly jihadist attack killed an estimated 800 people.