15,000 people, including cinema celebrities from Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast are expected in Ouagadougou for FESPACO, Africa's biggest film festival that was launched in 1969. This year's theme is "African cinema and culture of peace".
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Apexloads is a cloud-based freight marketplace that connects cargo owners with transporters to streamline the freight-truck matching process
This is part of the initiatives by Pink Power organization, in sensitizing people about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases
In Lagos and other cities, crowds stormed polling stations late Saturday (Feb.25) as electoral officials tallied the first results before transmitting them to a central database. Early Sunday, results for the presidential election were not yet availabl...
The meetings of financial chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies, were due focus on a economic issues. However, tensions over the Russia-Ukraine conflict flared. On Saturday (Feb. 25), South Africa’s Finance minister commented these talks on the ...
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit four Central African countries from March 1 to 5 for a summit on protecting equatorial forests. The tour also aims to strengthen bilateral ties in a region where France's historic influence seems to be conte...
The tropical storm tore through Mozamique on Friday (Feb. 24) with winds reached up to 113 kilometres. It made landfall in the coastal city of Vilankulos.
Maria Vasco Timbe and her four children found themselves picking up the pieces of what was left ...
Demonstrators marched through the streets of Tunis, Saturday (Feb. 25) to call out hate speech against immigrants. That same day, AU chairperson condemned 'shocking' comments by Tunisian authorities; which Tunis rejected, arguing its position had been ...
Some Nigerians stood watch at their polling stations as counting got under way late Saturday (Feb. 25). Others, cast their ballots after a day of delays in the country's general elections, amid fears of vote tampering.
A six-member jury and three magistrates spent seven hours deliberating Friday (Feb.24) before the singer was found guilty of raping a French woman at a luxury hotel on the Champs-Elysees in October 2016.
