Africa
Nigeria body admits 'lapses' over athletes' drug tests
Star sprinter Blessing Okagbare, who will compete in the 100m and 200m in Tokyo, has been critical of the country’s sports officials.
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Zim to send 300 more military instructors to insurgency-hit Mozambique
President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed that more than 1,400 South African troops have been sent to help quell the fighting.
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After power grab, Tunisia's Saied declares graft crackdown
Saied slammed the "bad economic choices" made in recent years, during a meeting with a leader of the employers' federation UTICA.
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Waste pickers fear for future at Senegalese mega dump
Dump trucks tip trash onto the platform that towers over a suburb of the West African metropolis, as pickers lunge towards the fresh piles of garbage.
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Tunisia in political turmoil as president sacks more officials
Late Tuesday, 63-year-old Saied, a former law lecturer who was a political newcomer when he won a landslide 2019 presidential election victory, issued decrees sacking a long list of senior government officials, including the army's chief prosecutor.
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SA 'appalled' by Israel's African Union observer status
The AU handed Israel the observer status on Thursday, a move the two parties expected would enable Israel to further help the AU battle the coronavirus pandemic and terrorism on the continent.
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Ramaphosa confirms SANDF deployment to Mozambique to cost nearly R1bn
The amount was confirmed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who wrote to Parliament informing the legislature that he had authorised the deployment of soldiers.
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Conflict 'behind us', Ivory Coast's Ouattara says after greeting rival
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara offered a hearty welcome to his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday as the rivals met for the first time since the West African country's deadly 2010-11 conflict, saying the turmoil was 'behind us'.
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Nigerian police ordered to free 5 anti-Buhari activists
The men were arrested early this month by the Department of State Service (DSS) during a church service led by a well-known evangelical pastor in the Nigerian capital Abuja.
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Tunisians worry about outcome of president's power grab
But away from the legislature and the police roadblocks on the wide boulevards of Tunis, there are few outward signs of an intense political crisis -- and many have welcomed the president's orders.
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Leader of Tanzanian opposition party charged with terrorism
Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe was detained last week along with 15 other members of the party in a late-night crackdown government critics said bore the hallmarks of the oppressive rule of country's late leader.
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Tunisia president sacks defence minister amid political turmoil
Street clashes erupted Monday outside the army-barricaded parliament, after Saied dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and ordered parliament closed for 30 days, a move the biggest political party Ennahdha decried as a "coup".
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Police shut Al Jazeera TV's Tunis office
"Around 15 policemen, some in uniform others in civilian clothes, entered our offices and asked us to leave," Al Jazeera director in Tunis Lotfi Hajji told AFP.
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Man accused of trying to kill Mali president dies in custody
The suspect, whose identity has not been revealed, had been taken into custody following the assassination attempt at Bamako's Grand Mosque on Tuesday.
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Mozambique welcomes foreign soldiers to fight insurgency
The 16-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) agreed late last month to send troops to Mozambique's insurgent-hit Cabo Delgado province. That military intervention was formalised a week after east African nation Rwanda announced it was starting to deploy 1,000 troops to the area. In a rare comment on the deployment, Nyusi who long resisted foreign intervention, thanked SADC and Rwanda for the mobilisation.
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Tunisian protesters march against government
In the capital Tunis, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of parliament, shouting slogans against the Islamist-inspired ruling Ennahdha party and Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi.
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Somalia postpones long-delayed election
The delay was due to the fact that federal regions were neither able to submit candidates' lists in time, nor to form local committees to cast the ballots, the source added.
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Donations seek to save Tunisia from COVID catastrophe
The small North African nation of 12 million people had been struggling to come up with the necessary vaccine doses even before COVID-19 really began to hit hard.
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Outrage in Uganda after MPs get 25 mn euros to buy cars
Each of the 529 lawmakers were handed 200 million shillings (48,000 euros, $56,500) to get new vehicles at a time when Covid-19 cases are surging.
