Entries by Rédaction Africanews

Nigerian senator convicted in London organ trafficking case

In addition to the 60-year-old senator, his wife Beatrice, 56, and a doctor who acted as a go-between, Obinna Obeta, 50, were also found guilty of conspiring to bring the young man, from Lagos, to the UK to have his kidney removed.

DR Congo: Skilling up the slums in Kinshasa

Eliane Kibubi, a young lawyer, started up the NGO Pakadjuma Resilience to give some of the women and children in a notorious slum some free education.

Uganda: American couple accused of child torture released on bail

A Ugandan court has granted bail to an American couple arrested in December for torturing the 10-year-old child in their care, their lawyer told AFP on Thursday.

Cameroon: Biya’s party wins all Senate seats

The party of President Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon for more than 40 years, unsurprisingly won all 70 seats in the indirectly elected Senate on March 12, the Constitutional Council announced Thursday.

Ministerial reshuffle in the DRC: Bemba in Defense, Kamerhe in the Economy

A reshuffle of the government was announced overnight from Thursday to Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), now in office Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde but redesigning the ministerial team nine months before the next presidential...

Crypto seeks regulation, market stability [Business Africa]

While digital currencies promise to improve financial inclusion, the implementation of a regulatory framework is imperative.

CAN 2023: overview of the knockout phase

Antoine Semenyo scored the winning goal six minutes into added time as Ghana beat Angola 1-0 in the African Cup of Nations (AFCON 2023) qualifiers on Thursday and stayed in head of his group.

Italy’s coast guard rescues more than 700 migrants

The coast guard said some 295 people were rescued from a fishing boat intercepted 167 km from the eastern coast of the Calabria region

DRC: 15 dead in Ituri, more than 300 since December according to the UN

About fifteen people have been killed in the past two days by two armed groups in Ituri, a province in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where, according to the UN, more than 300 civilians have been massacred since the beginning ...

Europe’s first majority Black orchestra debuts stateside

In 2015 Nwanoku took a leading role in creating a more diverse future for classical music, which, from musicians to conductors to repertoire, traditionally skews heavily white.