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Mali’s opposition on Wednesday reiterated calls for President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign, again spurning a compromise floated by West African leaders seeking to resolve a weeks-old political crisis. Using the acronym by which the president is known, prominent opposition leader Choguel Maiga told a news conference that “the only watchword remains the resignation of IBK”. He said a “second ...

Thousands of refugees and migrants are dying, while many are suffering extreme human rights abuses on irregular journeys between West and East Africa and Africa’s Mediterranean Coast. A new report released today by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) at the Danish Refugee Council, titled ‘On this journey, no one cares if you live or ...

According to a report from a local radio station called Bon Déjeuner! Radio based in Haiti, the young Haitian political leader Werley Nortreus (also known as Prince Werley Nortreus) said the Haitian Revolution must continue so Haiti can become free and independent again. For the first time, Haiti will exit the United Nations to join the African Union under the ...

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the killing of four aid workers and a security guard in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on the Nigerian authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. A photograph, published by the Islamic State’s newspaper, shows five men wearing civilian clothing sitting on the ground, blindfolded. Standing ...

The authorities in Niger have announced that the country’s airspace will reopen for international flights in the coming days. Like most countries around the world, Niger closed its airports and land borders in March as part of efforts to contain coronavirus. In a statement, the government says after assessing the situation, international passenger flights will now resume on 1 August. ...

Juliana Amato Lumumba, the daughter of the DR Congo’s first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, is demanding the return of her father’s “relics”, in a letter to Belgium’s monarch, Philippe. The letter, cited by AFP, was written on June 30, which was the 60th anniversary of the independence of the DR Congo from Belgium. “We, Lumumba’s children, call for the just return ...

The president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has ordered the security forces to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew from Wednesday. He said this was necessary to bring under control the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed 26 people and infected close to 2,000 others. Zimbabweans are being urged to stay at home all other times except to get food and water, or for ...

At least 23 soldiers have been killed in an ambush in northwestern Nigeria. Armed militants opened fire on the soldiers as they walked through a forested part of the Jibia district in Katsina State, security sources said on Sunday. So far, the bodies of 23 soldiers have been accounted for while some are still missing. The toll could be higher ...

Tanzania’s electoral commission has set 28 October as the date for general elections, the Citizen newspaper reports. The commission’s chairman Justice Semistocles Kaijage has told a media briefing that election campaigns will start on 26 August and end a day before the election. Presidential and parliamentary candidates will submit their names to the commission on 25 August, he said. President ...

Ivory Coast’s Vice-President Daniel Kablan Duncan has resigned. His resignation follows the sudden death of the Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly last week. The secretary-general of the Ivory Coast presidency, Patrick Achi, said that Kablan Duncan, was leaving “for personal reasons.” The vice-president had put in his resignation letter to President Alassane Ouattara in February, Mr Achi noted. “After several ...