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Heavy gunfire heard in south of Guinea-Bissau capital: AFP journalist

By AFP

The gunfire was heard where members of the national guard were holed up who on Thursday night went to release Finance Minister Souleiman Seidi and another...

  • A police officer poses next to supporters of Congolese doctor and presidential candidate Denis Mukwege during a campaign rally in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on 25 November 25. Picture: AFP

    Political clashes leave one dead in DR Congo's east

    The DRC is in the grip of unrest, with dozens of armed groups active in its resource-rich east, where UN peacekeepers and East African Community troops are deployed.

    29 November 2023 06:36
  • A soldier of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces directs traffic after supporters of the opposition party, All People's Congress (APC) clash with police during a protest calling for the Chief electoral Commissioner, Mohamed Konneh, to step down after allegations of electoral fraud in Freetown on June 21, 2023. Picture: AFP.

    S.Leone authorities treating Sunday's deadly clashes as failed coup

    The central prison and several police stations were stormed and hundreds of detainees escaped.

    28 November 2023 19:45
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: @PresidencyZA/X

    Ramaphosa asks African countries to act against gender pay gaps with urgency

    According to data released by the World Economic Forum South African women earn between 23 and 35% less than men for the same job.

    28 November 2023 17:53
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa (centre) at the African Union's 3rd Men's Conference on Positive Masculinity in Pretoria on 28 November 2023. Picture: @PresidencyZA/X

    Ramaphosa: Young boys must be taught that women are not objects

    As the country marks 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed government's commitment to rooting out patriarchy.

    28 November 2023 14:49
  • FILE: General Tiani has ruled Niger since July, following a coup that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, who is still sequestered in his residence in Niamey. Picture: AFP

    Niger coup leader repeals law against migrant traffickers

    General Abdourahamane Tiani, on Saturday signed 'an order repealing' the 2015 law 'relating to the illegal trafficking of migrants', said a statement from the government's secretariat general read out on public radio and television.

    28 November 2023 06:06
  • Children walk past a campaign poster of for the presidential candidate of the ruling Union for the Republic (UNIR) party President Faure Gnassingbe in Mango, northern Togo, on 15 February 2020. Picture: AFP

    Togo announces elections will be held by early 2024

    The last legislative and regional elections, in 2018, were boycotted by the opposition, which denounced "irregularities" in the census.

    28 November 2023 05:41
  • FILE: Kenyan President William Ruto. Picture: Tony KARUMBA/AFP

    Kenya offers 11 state companies for sale

    The 11 companies, including Kenya's oil and gas corporation, pipeline operator, various agricultural businesses and a book publisher, are among 35 firms that President William Ruto announced last week were ready for privatisation.

    27 November 2023 19:27
  • (FILES) A soldier of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces directs traffic after supporters of the opposition party, All People's Congress (APC) clash with police during a protest calling for the Chief electoral Commissioner, Mohamed Konneh, to step down after allegations of electoral fraud in Freetown on 21 June 2023. Clashes that shook Sierra Leonea's capital Freetown on 26 November 2023 left 13 dead in the ranks of the army loyal to the government, and were orchestrated by active and retired soldiers, the army spokesperson said on 27 November 2023. Picture: JOHN WESSELS/AFP

    Curfew partially lifted in SLeone capital after clashes killed 13 soldiers

    Daily life began to resume amid a heavy security presence in Freetown on Monday, as the government partially lifted a curfew imposed after the clashes erupted in the city.

    27 November 2023 18:49
  •  A Soldier with the Sierra Leonean military police greets and man along an empty road in Freetown on November 26, 2023. A military armoury in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown came under attack on Sunday, the government said, as it imposed an immediate national curfew. (Photo by Saidu BAH / AFP)

    Sierra Leone under curfew after military armoury attacked

    Armed clashes erupted in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Sunday in what the government said was an attack on a military armoury, as it imposed an immediate national curfew.

    26 November 2023 14:43
  • FILE: According to the United Nations, 450,000 people have been forced to flee their homes over the past six weeks, of whom 200,000 are cut off from humanitarian aid. Picture: Pixabay.com

    M23 rebels extend control in eastern DR Congo: Local sources

    The Congolese army and allied militias are battling the M23, trapping locals and displaced people in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.

    25 November 2023 09:25
  • FILE: Mali interim Vice President Assimi Goita. Picture: AFP

    Niger coup leader visits Mali in first foreign trip

    The three Sahel countries in September signed a pact that includes provisions for mutual defence in the event of an attack on the "sovereignty and territorial integrity" of any of the countries.

    23 November 2023 19:45
  • This aerial view shows a groyne - a shore protection structure - on a beach east of Cotonou, Benin on 23 October 2023. Picture: Yanick Folly/AFP

    Benin struggles in battle to halt coastal erosion

    Benin’s government spent millions of dollars to protect coastal communities from sea erosion, but as the ocean eats at the land, it seems as if it was slowly winning the battle.

    22 November 2023 06:00
  • An electoral official holds up a ballot paper as votes are counted at a polling station in Antananarivo, on November 16, 2023, during the first round of the Madagascar presidential election. Picture: AFP.

    Madagascar's voters ask ruling party for money after disputed election

    Rakotondrabe Joselito, a TGV official in Ambohimangakely, some 15 kilometres outside the capital denied the party promised to hand out cash.

    21 November 2023 20:01
  • FILE: Liberia's Joseph Nyumah Boakai. Picture: AFP

    Boakai declared winner of Liberia presidential election: electoral commission

    Political veteran Joseph Boakai was on Monday declared winner of Liberia's presidential election, beating incumbent George Weah, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) said after completing the ballot count.

    20 November 2023 20:17
  • Incumbent President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and presidential candidate Felix Tshisekedi of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) political party (3rd R) waves to his supporters at the Stade des Martyrs during his first campaign rally as the electoral campaign officially kicks off ahead of the 2023 general elections in Kinshasa on 19 November2023. Picture: AFP

    DR Congo's leading presidential candidates

    The Democratic Republic of Congo is scheduled to hold presidential elections on 20 December 2023, in which 25 candidates, including the incumbent, are running for the highest office in the impoverished central African nation.

    20 November 2023 06:07
  • A photograph shows the logo of TotalEnergies at the Total Energies refinery site, in Gonfreville-l'Orcher, near Le Havre, northwestern France, on 5 October 2022. Picture: Lou BENOIST/AFP

    NGOs ask banks to pull out of TotalEnergies' gas project in Mozambique

    A group of 124 NGOs posted an open letter on Friday to dozens of financial institutions, including European, Japanese and South African banks, urging them to withdraw from TotalEnergies' giant gas project in Mozambique.

    17 November 2023 19:31
  • FILE: Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko (C) looks on during an opposition meeting two days before his trial, in Dakar on 14 March 2023. Picture: JOHN WESSELS/AFP

    W.African court deals blow to Senegal opposition leader

    In the latest twist of a long-running legal battle, the Economic Community of West African States court in Nigeria's capital Abuja said the "state of Senegal did not violate any of (Sonko's) rights."

    17 November 2023 19:28
  • FILE: Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera. Picture: @LazarusChakwera/Twitter.

    Malawi president imposes cost-cutting travel ban on himself, govt

    The move was announced after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $175-million loan for the southern African nation.

    16 November 2023 19:37
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