News24 | Sanctions deepen economic misery in post-coup Niger
Food aid is stuck in transit, and many goods hard to find, after Niger’s coup. Surrounding ECOWAS states banned trade with Niger. Fellow coup-led country Burkina Faso has kept its…
Sudan’s military leader warns the war in his country could spread beyond its borders
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News24 | Shunned Mnangagwa plans meetings with SADC leaders on sidelines of UN General Assembly
Emmerson Mnangagwa at the Second Summit Economic and Humanitarian Forum 2023 in Saint Petersburg, in July 2023. (Photo by Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Zimbabwe’s Emmerson Mnangagwa plans to…
News24 | After 29 years in charge, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame says he will run for president again
Paul Kagame in London in May 2023. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Paul Kagame has effectively been in charge of Rwanda since 1994. He says he’ll be…
They said it: Leaders at the UN, in their own words
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News24 | Coup-led Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso establish Sahel alliance for mutual defence
Burkina Faso soldiers (File) PHOTO: Issouf Sanogo/AFP Three coup-led Sahel countries have sworn to aid one another in case of attack. Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso created the Alliance of…
News24 | How the ’emirate’ of Gabon squandered its oil wealth under 55 years of Bongo rule
The Bongo family lived in wealth while much of Gabon remained in squalor. Gabon is fabulously wealthy, thanks to oil and manganese. But roads are too poor to use, planes…
News24 | Emmerson Mnangagwa catapults his son into Zimbabwe’s cabinet – as deputy finance minister
Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2017. (Getty) Kudakwashe Mnangagwa is 35, and in Zimbabwe’s legislature thanks to a youth quota. He is now also the deputy minister of finance. His father Emmerson…
News24 | Hundreds feared dead after Storm Daniel sweeps over Libya
A government official claims 2 000 people died in the Libyan city of Derna due to Storm Daniel. The Red Crescent puts the figure closer to 250. Some residents woke…