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…
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,…
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…
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…
By AP Hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in Spain without authorisation will soon be able to apply for legal residency under a new policy. Spain’s government announced Tuesday it will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of…
By Rédaction Africanews with agencies Angered by a 10 year freeze on wages, thousands of teachers in Gabon have been on strike for the past six weeks, paralysing the school system. It marks the first wave of social unrest under…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP As tensions between Cuba and the United States rise and Cubans brace for further economic difficulties, priests and priestesses of the African-Cuban root religion known as Santería held several ceremonies on Sunday and offered gifts…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP Egypt’s Parliament is looking into ways to regulate children’s use of social media platforms to combat what lawmakers called “digital choas,” following some western countries that are considering banning young teenagers from social media. The…
By Rédaction Africanews Libya signed a 25-year oil deal with France’s TotalEnergies and US-based ConocoPhillips, involving more than 20 billion dollars of foreign investments, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah said during the Libya Energy and Economy Summit in Tripoli on Saturday. The…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP Scoring goals for a cervical cancer vaccine: this is the ambition of the Goal Getter Campaign. The initiative was first showcased in Tanzania and Eswatini earlier last year before moving to Zimbabwe in December, using…
