Author: Montage Africa
By Rédaction Africanews and AFP Residents of Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, say life is returning to normal after federal forces retook control of the city, which has been seized by Tigray rebels. Passengers continue to arrive at Ethiopia’s Mekelle airport after flights to the northern Tigray region resumed on Sunday. The airport was closed for two weeks after Tigray rebels seized the city at the end of September. Federal forces retook control ten days ago and residents say life is returning to normal. “Now we have restarted our work as new, and the situation is good,” says…
By AFP Namibia has detected foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the Zambezi Region, making it the second area affected by an outbreak, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform said on Sunday. It comes after cases were reported in the southern Kharas region. According to a public notification from the ministry, the disease was detected at Kalala Island in Kabe constituency, where veterinary officials observed 20 cattle showing clinical signs on October 5, with all 12 samples collected from the animals testing positive for FMD virus on October 7. “Emergency vaccination has commenced in the affected area, while intensive…
By Rédaction Africanews Morocco’s election-winning Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) announced on Monday the formation of a governing coalition with three other parties. Morocco’s King Mohammed VI named PAM leader Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri prime minister and tasked her with forming a government on September 29, after her centrist party arrived first in last month’s legislative elections. El Mansouri became the country’s first female head of government. El Mansouri said in a statement that she led two weeks of “extensive political consultations” with various political groups to form a majority. The Istiqlal Party, the Socialist Union of Popular Forces and…
By Mohamed Hussein Africa holds billions of barrels of oil, trillions of cubic metres of gas and produces most of the world’s cobalt and manganese for electric car batteries. This week, energy ministers, investors and oil executives are meeting in Cape Town for African Energy Week, which runs until October 16. The conference focuses on investment in oil and gas, energy finance and ending energy poverty. end of list In this visual explainer, Al Jazeera maps where Africa’s oil, gas and critical minerals are found, how its electricity is generated and who still goes without it. How much oil does…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP Sudan’s de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Monday ordered a probe into what he called a “painful incident” near the Egyptian border, where an airstrike hit a sprawling gold mining site two days earlier. The Emergency Lawyers, a rights group documenting abuses in the war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), said the strike in the mountainous Jabal al-Uqaydat mining area on Saturday killed 72 people, and accused Egypt of carrying it out. AFP could not independently verify the claim and Egypt has issued no official comment. A witness at…
The African Union (AU) has held consultations in Kigali, Rwanda, as part of efforts to advance the peace process in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where fighting continues despite diplomatic initiatives to end the conflict. The consultations, held on October 6, focused on implementing the Washington Peace Agreement, security arrangements, the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of fighters, refugee protection and regional economic cooperation, the AU said in a statement. end of list The delegation comprised former Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde, former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi. Zewde is the deputy chairperson of…
Rwanda has signed a 10-year deal with Formula 1 to host races in the African country, starting “in the early 2030s”. The event – to be called the African Grand Prix – will be held on a new, purpose-built circuit in Bugesera, 25 miles south of the capital Kigali and next to the city’s new international airport. It will be the first F1 race in Africa since 1993. A statement from F1 said the project came as a result of “years of collaboration to ensure the right foundations, with the best partner, are in place to deliver a successful, sustainable…
Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila has been named the leader of a new rebel coalition seeking to oust the government. The Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN) said it aimed to coordinate “resistance forces” to end “tyranny” in Democratic Republic of Congo and would pursue the goal “by all means, including force”. Its unveiling on Monday is the clearest indication so far of Kabila’s direct involvement in an armed movement a year after he was sentenced to death in absentia for treason. He had previously denied having links to the M23 rebel group. The Congolese government has not…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP A huge blowout of oil and gas in Niger’s remote eastern desert has caused an environmental incident of “exceptional severity”, the petroleum ministry announced on Monday. The landlocked west African nation has been producing oil since 2011, and extracts and refines tens of thousands of barrels per day, particularly in the Agadem region. The blowout at the Goumeri W8 oil well, around 1,700 kilometres (1,000 miles) from the capital Niamey, occurred on September 25, according to a ministry statement read out on national TV. It has produced an “environmental incident of exceptional severity… characterised by…
The Vice -Chancellor, University of Ghana, Prof. Nana Amfo, has called for reforms in higher education to equip graduates with critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills. She made the call while delivering the keynote address at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) International Week 2026. The event had the theme “Re-imagining Pedagogy and Teaching for Higher Education in the 21st Century”. She said universities must rethink their teaching methods, curricula and assessment systems to prepare students for a rapidly-changing world shaped by artificial intelligence and other emerging challenges. She said the purpose of higher education should extend beyond preparing students for…