By Rédaction Africanews The United Nations has announced that it would shortly send a peacekeeping mission to the city of Uvira in eastern DR Congo in order to closely monitor adherence to the ceasefire in the region. Is it a further glimpse of hope for eastern DRC? The United Nations is set to send a ceasefire monitoring mission to Uvira in eastern DR Congo in the next days, as announced on Monday by one of the main mediators in the DRC conflict, Qatar. At the meeting in Doha on Monday between representatives from both the M23 rebel group and the…
Author: Montage Africa
Ghana has paused citizenship applications for members of the African diaspora in order to make the system more accessible and user friendly. Since 2016, those who can prove their ancestors came from Africa have been able to get Ghanaian nationality. It was primarily aimed at the descendants of those who were victims of the transatlantic slave trade. More than 1,000 people – including African American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder – have obtained Ghanaian citizenship in recent years. However, some applicants have complained about the number of stages involved, as well as the high cost. Dr Erieka Bennet, ambassador for the Diaspora…
The authorities in Puntland, a semi‑autonomous region of Somalia, have executed a woman convicted of murdering a 14‑year‑old girl, in a rare case in the region in which the death penalty has been carried out against a woman. Hodan Mohamud Diiriye, 34, was killed by firing squad on Tuesday in the city of Galkayo after a court found her guilty of beating to death a teenager who had been working as a domestic helper. Saabirin Saylaan’s killing in November sparked protests in Galkayo, along with renewed calls for greater child protection. The case touched a deep nerve in a country…
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been mentioned in the latest tranche of the Epstein files, after his name appeared in several emails from the late sex offender and others. They concerned a dinner Epstein seemingly arranged for Zuma in London in 2010, which the emails suggest was also attended by a “beautiful” Russian model. Being named among the Epstein files is not an indication of wrongdoing. The Jacob Zuma Foundation has described stories about the emails as “agenda-driven journalism built on innuendo” and “guilt by association”, adding that there was no “unlawful or improper conduct” by the former…
As the Rafah border crossing reopened Monday, many Palestinians waited impatiently at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza for relatives expected to arrive from Egypt. Iman Rashwan, who was sat outside the hospital with her children, told The Associated Press that she was waiting for her mother and sister who left Gaza almost a year ago. “We have been waiting for it for a long time, and every time it is not true, but this time it was true,” she said. “They called us yesterday and said they received news that they will leave. Thank god the news was…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP Three Libyan soldiers from the army of eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar were killed in clashes at the border with Niger, the force announced on Monday. Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), which controls eastern Libya and parts of the south, said it “mourns the death of three soldiers” during a “cowardly attack carried out by mercenary groups and outlaw terrorist gangs in the early hours of Saturday, January 31.” “Three simultaneous attacks” were launched against three checkpoints along the border between the two countries, the LNA said in a statement. Several other fighters were “wounded and…
By Rédaction Africanews Nigeria’s armed forces said on Sunday that a key commander of the islamist organisation Boko Haram was killed in a night raid by the armed forces in Borno State. Abu Khalid was one of the key figures in the islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, which operates mainly in Nigeria’s north. The commander, reportedly the second-in-command for the group’s logistics and operations in Sambisa Forest in Borno State, was killed by a recent Nigerian military operation in the area, according to a statement by the armed forces on Sunday. Aside from Abu Khalid, ten Boko Haram militants also…
Families members and survivors mourn the victims of last week’s Rubaya coltan mine collapse. Kinshasa accuses M23 of illegally exploiting eastern Congo’s natural resources. Mourners gathered quietly in the courtyard of a modest home in Goma, eastern Congo on Monday. Family members sat shoulder to shoulder, some staring at their phones, others clutching photographs of Bosco Nguvumali Kalabosh. Kalabosh was among the victims of last week’s deadly collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine, where heavy rains triggered a landslide that crushed several hand-dug tunnels. At least 200 miners are believed to have died in one of the deadliest mining disasters…
By Rédaction Africanews Eight months after the death of former Zambian president Edgar Lungu, on 5 June 2025 in South Africa, the question of where he will be buried remains unresolved, despite clear court rulings and growing public interest. In August 2025, the Pretoria High Court ruled that Lungu’s body must be returned to Zambia for a state funeral, rejecting his family’s wish to bury him in South Africa and later denying them leave to appeal, saying there was “no reasonable prospect of success.” South African judges said Zambian law applies because Lungu was only in the country temporarily for…
By Rédaction Africanews Domingos Simões Pereira and Fernando Dias were liberated last Friday after having been respectively detained and blocked in the Nigerian embassy for the past months. Now, the military authorities offered their movements seats in the government, but both opposition leaders refused. They would not “dirty their names”: Guinea-Bissau’s two main opposition leaders Domingos Simões Pereira and Fernando Dias have refused an offer from the military authorities, in charge of the country since a military coup last November, to join the ranks of the government. This follows Pereira’s release from prison on Friday, where he had been detained…