By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Mauritania’s former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has lost his final appeal of a 15-year prison sentence for corruption while in office. Abdel Aziz was initially sentenced to five years in prison in 2023 after…
By Rédaction Africanews and EBU A new hospital designed to deliver the latest medical services across Morocco has been inaugurated in Rabat by King Mohammed VI and Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan. The Mohammed VI International University Hospital Complex includes…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP The first civil trial related to the crash of a Boeing airplane in Ethiopia was set to proceed in the United States on Wednesday, six years after the disaster killed all 157 people on board. Boeing…
A G20 taskforce set up by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is urging the establishment of an international panel to address what experts are calling a global “inequality emergency.” The Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality, chaired by Nobel laureate…
Written by Ethel Cofie, Everyone loves to talk about Africa’s next unicorn. The headlines are easy: billion-dollar fintechs, super-apps, AI startups promising to transform everything from health to payments. But beneath the hype lies a quieter truth; without fibre networks, subsea…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP In the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the United States vice president, Dick Cheney, who passed away on Monday has not been remembered fondly by residents. He was the driving force behind the US invasion of the…
By Africanews Cameroonian security forces killed 48 people in a crackdown on protests against the re-election of President Paul Biya, Reuters reported Tuesday citing UN sources. The Cameroonian government has not provided a figure or conducted an investigation into the killings. The…
At the Johannesburg leg of his nationwide tour celebrating the release of his third album, Intlambululo: Ukuhlambulula, Mandisi Dyantyis sashayed across the stage as if untouched by worry, turning to each of his bandmates at intervals during the near two-hour performance as though…
The Republic of Guinea has completed a major rebasing of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), conducted by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) under the supervision of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation. This revision, carried out with the…
By Rédaction Africanews with agencies Morocco’s king has declared a new national holiday to mark the United Nations Security Council’s adoption of a resolution backing Rabat’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara. The Royal Palace said that starting next year, 31…
