Author: Montage Africa
By Rédaction Africanews The Malian government has announced that it is taking majority control of a new company dedicated to producing civil-use explosives inside the country. Following a recent cabinet meeting at the Koulouba Palace, authorities approved the state’s 51 percent stake in the “Société Industrielle du Centre du Mali FARATCHI-CO-SA,” created in partnership with the Chinese firm Auxin under a shareholder pact signed in November 2024. The project aims to reduce Mali’s dependence on imports and secure supplies for the mining sector, quarries and major civil engineering works, while tightening oversight of these sensitive products. Since 2022, Bamako has…
By Rédaction Africanews Nigeria’s army said it has rescued eleven kidnapping victims during an overnight operation along the Kaduna–Abuja highway. According to the military, troops from the Forward Operating Base in Doka spotted the group on the night of January 26th using long‑range surveillance equipment. Soldiers moved in after observing the gunmen escorting their captives along a bush path. The five men, three women and three children had been held for 92 days, after being abducted in October from the community of Gada Mallam Maman in Kaduna State. Kidnapping for ransom remains a major security challenge in north‑west and central…
By Rédaction Africanews Senegalese actress and model Halima Gadji has died after an illness in France, Senegal’s Press Agency (APS) said late Monday. She was best known for her role as Marième Dial in the popular Senegalese TV series Mistress of a Married Man, a show that sparked controversy but attracted a wide audience. Earlier on Monday, Gadji had posted on Facebook about casting for season two of Nouvelle Reine, a reality TV show on Canal+ Afrique, encouraging young women to apply. Born in 1989 in Dakar, Gadji was the daughter of a Senegalese father and a Moroccan-Algerian mother. She began modelling at the…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies OPEC’s first female president enjoyed a life of luxury from bribes taken when she was Nigeria’s oil minister. That was the case alleged by British prosecutors at the opening of Diezani Alison-Madueke’s corruption trial in London on Tuesday. Alison-Madueke is charged with multiple counts of bribery between 2011 and 2015, when she served as oil minister under Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan. The 65-year-old has been on bail since she was first arrested in London in October 2015 and was formally charged in 2023. Prosecutors say she accepted financial rewards from companies wanting oil and…
By Rédaction Africanews United States President Donald Trump is ramping up its attacks against Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump suggested the Department of Justice and Congress were investigating Omar’s wealth. He claimed Omar left Somalia in the 1990s with “with NOTHING, and is now reportedly worth more than 44 Million Dollars.” Omar’s latest financial disclosure, from May 2025, showed her net worth increased due to her husband. The couple have assets of between $6 million and $30 million, according to the Wall Street Journal and Politico. “Trump, your support is collapsing and you’re…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP Prosecutors in Norway on Monday charged an oil company and two of its executives for allegedly paying millions of dollars in bribes to Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso and his family. Norwegian police said an investigation was launched after their counterparts in Monaco sought legal assistance related to a suspicious bank transaction. They say the bulk of the around $25 million dollars was offered to the president and his family in 2016 when the Norway-based oil group applied for an offshore licence In addition, other bribes were paid in the form of undue…
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP Guinea’s new president, Mamadi Doumbouya, has appointed a prime minister, less than two weeks after being sworn in. Amadou Oury Bah served as prime minister for almost two years under the country’s military junta. He and his cabinet submitted their resignation last week, following Doumbouya’s inauguration. Oury is now back in the same role under the new government, according to a decree read on national television on Monday evening. Doumbouya was elected to a seven-year term in December, four years after he toppled Guinea’s first freely-elected president, Alpha Conde. He had initially vowed not to…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP In the small coastal village of Ngor, just outside Dakar, the beach is becoming a communal gym every Saturday morning. Here, people of all ages and physical abilities meet not just for sports and leisure, but also for recovery. The Club des Dauphins de Ngor is an aquagym programme that helps people with physical disabilities improve their mobility and manage chronic pain. Some of its members arrive in wheelchairs. Others are guided to the shore on crutches or assisted across the sand by trainers who are also volunteer lifeguards from the local fishing community. On…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP On Tuesday, a Dutch court sentenced an Eritrean man to 20 years in prison for running a human trafficking network in which migrants were tortured, and their families extorted. The court said the man, identified as Amanuel Walid, treated migrants “without any humanity” while transporting them from Eritrea to Europe via Libya. “Your only objective was to make as much money as possible from people who were seeking a better future,” the presiding judge told Walid. Members of the gang abused thousands of migrants before detaining them in overcrowded and unsanitary camps in Libya, extorting…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP In drought-hit north-eastern Kenya, villagers have been forced to drag their dead livestock to distant fields for burning to keep the stench of death and scavenging hyenas away from their homes. Mandera County along Kenya’s borders with Ethiopia and Somalia has seen no rain since May. The National Drought Management Authority has put about nine counties on alert, but in Mandera, the “alarm” phase is one step short of an official emergency. “I have lost all my cows and goats, and burned them here,” said Bishar Maalim Mohammed, a resident of Tawakal village. Most of…