Africa
26 Jan
Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), on Thursday said he was leaving the party with immediate effect because it had been hijacked by proxies of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF.
26 Jan
US Secretary of United States Antony Blinken visited the sub-regional rice research institute in Abidjan on Tuesday (January 23) with the president of the African Development Bank.
25 Jan
Chad's junta leader is hosted in Russia and hails ties with the kremlin. Moscow's said it would help Mahamat Idriss Deby stabilise the country. Tunisia is eliminated from AFCON whilst Namibia stay in the game for their first ever advance to the last 16. And a Cameroonian fashion designer hopes to empower migrant workers living in Lebanon.
24 Jan
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said the United States is determined to remain a strong security partner for Nigeria, whose military is backed by the U.S., Britain and other allies in a long war against Islamist insurgents.
24 Jan
Cameroon has launched a large-scale malaria vaccination campaign that's expected to reach 250,000 children this year and next. Experts say it will save lives, even if the vaccine isn't perfect.
23 Jan
Two decades after horrific ethnic violence in the Darfur region that killed hundreds of thousands of people, Sudan is once again in crisis. Since the start of the brutal power struggle between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in April, there have been alarming reports of ethnic killings in Darfur.
23 Jan
Cameroon's laws, including the 1990 press freedom law, are routinely circumvented in order to harass and persecute journalists. There is no sign of press offences being decriminalised and neither access to information nor the confidentiality of journalists' sources are guaranteed in practice.
23 Jan
Liberia's new president, Joseph Boakai, has recovered from an episode of heat-induced faintness that caused him to cut short his inauguration speech on Monday (January 22) before being led off the podium, his party's spokesman said.
23 Jan
A final list of candidates set for the presidential contest omits opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. It appears to mark the end of Sonko's presidential ambitions for this year.
22 Jan
More migrants have died at the Moroccan-Spanish border this year than ever before. Human rights activists are calling the Moroccan border guards criminals.
21 Jan
Videos claiming to show proof of a “crude oil reserve” discovered in Burkina Faso have been going viral, racking up millions of views on social media. Generally used alongside pro-junta photos and videos of the Burkinabe military leader, Ibrahim Traore, the claim has been raising some eyebrows as the West African nation isn’t known for its natural oil reserves.
20 Jan
Relations between Burundi and Rwanda have been frosty for years with the border between the two only reopening two years ago. It has been closed again amid renewed tension. Some analysts now fear the spat will prolong.
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India's mammoth elections are now under way, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi widely expected to win a third term. Since coming to power in 2014, Modi has expanded subsidy programmes for the poor and women.
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A world record of 969 million citizens are called to the polls for what some see as a referendum on one man. India is about to embark on the world's biggest election, staggered over seven weeks, with Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP expected to extend its solid lead in parliament. Modi has been pointing to a decade of unprecedented growth and power for a nation courted by the West and beyond.
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India's mammoth elections are now under way, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi widely expected to win a third term. Since coming to power in 2014, Modi has expanded subsidy programmes for the poor and women. These programmes include measures like equipping homes with butane gas by offering free cylinders or distributing free food rations. Some 60 percent of the population benefits from Modi’s food distribution scheme, which he has pledged to renew for another five years. Another success story is the nationwide rollout of digital payment services. Meanwhile, critics say the prime minister is eroding democracy by targeting opposition parties and controlling the media.
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In the early hours of Sunday morning, Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel in an unprecedented strike launched directly from Iranian territory. Almost all of the drones, rockets and cruise missiles launched by Iran were intercepted by Israeli air defenses with the help of the US, UK, and several Arab countries.
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The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years before the genocide in Srebrenica and eight years before the war in Kosovo, Vukovar was the first city in the former Yugoslavia to suffer ethnic cleansing, in 1991. More than 30 years later, reconciliation between local Serbs and Croats is hindered by impunity for war crimes and the inability to agree on a common version of events.