Kenya and Somalia announced on Monday an agreement to reopen their land border at three points by July 1, officially closed since 2011 due to the insurrection of radical Islamists Shebab.
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Clashes between the police and young supporters of the Senegalese opponent Ousmane Sonko Monday morning in Ziguinchor, Casamance (south), on the eve of the planned rape trial against the latter, noted a correspondent for the AFP.
Mozambican authorities are battling the worst cholera outbreak in more than 20 years; the number of cases increased after the country was hit by Cyclone Freddy in late February
"It's really heartbreaking. It's hell... One of the things that needs to happen is for the international community to send a very strong message to the warring parties and say that humanitarian assistance and in general, civilians lives and civilians ...
The Nigerian musician Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend Fela, was placed under arrest on Monday for physically assaulting a police officer, police in Nigeria's Lagos state said.
Moroccan embroidery carries influences from Ottoman, Andalusian, and Moroccan Berber, or Amazigh, origins
The commander of the South African army's ground forces is on an official visit to Moscow, Russian news agencies said on Monday, after US accusations that Pretoria blamed arms deliveries to Russia.
The vice-president of Colombia, Afro-Colombian Francia Marquez, is on tour in several African countries, amid controversy and strong criticism from the conservative opposition
Eleven perpetrators of a "coup" that the authorities claimed to have foiled in December in Chad have been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the public prosecutor of the N. 'Djamena, and will be pardoned, according to the presidency.
Guinea-Bissau's PM kicks off electoral campaign for the June 4th legislative elections and promises to accept results
