US must boost Africa ties to focus on critical minerals – report/in /by
The USIP report comes as the US tries to catch up or become a competitor with China whose investment in Africa is heavily concentrated in the extractive sector.
Togo: Govt delays Apr. 20 polls, consultations launched in wake of controversial reform/in /by
From April 8 to April 10, Togolese lawmakers will conduct a tour to "listen to and inform civilians on the constitutional reform". After a week of growing public discontent, the presidency had announced that the constitutional reform bill will be tabled again in Parliamen
Haiti: police recover cargo ship hijacked by gangs/in /by
Haiti’s National Police agency says it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs on Saturday off the coast of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Gaza war: Netanyahu says date is set for Rafah invasion/in /by
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday (Apr. 8) said that a date is set for a ground offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Why has the Somalia-Ethiopia row deepened?/in /by
Somalia and Ethiopia enjoyed peaceful relations until January this year when the memorandum with Somaliland sparked diplomatic tensions between the security partners and neighbours in eastern Africa.
Three Tanzanian soldiers killed in Democratic Republic of Congo/in /by
They were part of a Southern African peacekeeping force deployed in the DRC last year to help government troops battling M23 rebels.
Total solar eclipse viewed by tens of millions in North America/in /by
People travelled to sites along its path across Mexico, the United States, and Canada to watch in wonder as the day turned to night.
Rwanda’s leader criticises perceived US ambiguity over 1994 genocide/in /by
Paul Kagame comments come after the US Secretary of State, in a social media post, failed to specify that the Tutsi ethnic group was targeted in the massacres.
Mozambique: Death toll from ferry accident reaches nearly 100/in /by
"...we see a shipwreck, which resulted in 91 deaths reported yesterday, and at around 23 hrs (11pm local time), we found another three bodies, totalling 94, and this morning we found two more bodies." Manuel Loforte, Maritime Institute
Vatican formally rejects gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy/in /by
"Because we believe that these ideologies, instead of helping to recognize dignity, impoverish a humanistic vision where man and woman are the most beautiful combination in the greatest difference that humanity contains. This is unparalleled.” Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect for the Dicast