Entries by Rédaction Africanews

Uganda’s Museveni conditionally backs controversial anti-gay laws

Uganda's President Museveni backs controversial anti-gay laws which could see some LGBTQ+ community members sentenced to death but insists on a 'rehabilitation' clause

Nigeria’s First Lady Buhari calls on country to heed lessons of Ramadan

Nigeria's First Lady Aisha Buhari urges the country to heed the lessons of Ramadan as she celebrates Eid ahead of the imminent change of government

Fighting in Khartoum continues despite hopes of three-day Eid truce

Gunfire has continued in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, despite promises of a three-day truce to mark the Muslim festival of Eid

Comoros refuses to accept migrants from Mayotte as row with Paris heats up

Officials in the Comoros archipelago insist they will not accept any migrants from neighbouring Mayotte as a row with Paris heats up

Sudan: Clashes shatter Eid festivities

The two sides have been announcing victories and accusing each other of having started or broken the many promised truces, claims that are impossible to verify on the ground as the danger is permanent

S.A: African debut of acclaimed production ‘The Head and the Load’

The work by South African William Kentridge combines libretto, dance, music and projection to chronicle a hidden story. That of Africans uprooted from their lands during WWI and particularly the experiences of those who worked as porters. It will run a...

More African countries set to approve malaria shot; 20 million doses ready in 2023

African countries that do not have extensive resources for drug regulation have previously relied on the U.N. agency to initially review new medicines.

Islamic State group extends its predation In the Sahel

At the cost of bloody fighting, massacres, and displacement of civilians, the Islamic State group in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) is now in a position of strength in northeastern Mali, which serves as a base for its expansionist aims in Niger and Burkina ...

Police evict asylum-seekers outside UN refugee office in S.Africa

The migrants had set up makeshift tents in front of the UN refugee agency to ask to be relocated to other countries following an outbreak of xenophobic violence in 2019

France: accused of rape, Saad Lamjarred released before his appeal

Moroccan star singer Saad Lamjarred, who appealed his sentence in Paris to six years in prison for aggravated rape, has been released, AFP learned Thursday from his lawyers.