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France's President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Chad's President General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno for the 19th Francophonie summit in Villers-Cotterets, France, 4 October 2024
Chad ends defense pact with France nixing its military presence
N'DJAMENA — Chad announced on Thursday that it is terminating its defense cooperation agreement with France, a move its government claims is aimed at reasserting its sovereignty and recalibrating its international relations away from its former colonial ruler.The decision, which Foreign Ministry spokesperson Abderaman Koulamallah described as a historic turning point, comes more than 60 years after the Central African nation gained independence.The statement highlighted Chad’s intention to reshape its alliances in line with national priorities, though it stressed that the move would not undermine historical ties with France, with both nations committed to maintaining relations in areas of mutual interest.Chad's interim president, Mahamet Deby Itno, assumed power in 2021...
November 29, 2024

Chad ends defense pact with France nixing its military presence

In Sudan’s merciless war, all warring parties have been accused of using starvation as a weapon of war
Nowhere else on Earth are so many children fleeing war
By Lyse DoucetKASSALA — Mahmoud is a cheeky teenager who beams the biggest of smiles even though he lost his front teeth in the rough and tumble of kids’ play.He is a Sudanese orphan abandoned twice, and displaced twice in his country’s grievous war — one of nearly five million Sudanese children who have lost almost everything as they are pushed from one place to the next in what is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.Nowhere else on Earth are so many children on the run, so many people living with such acute hunger.Famine has already been declared in one area — many others subsist on the brink of starvation not knowing where their next meal will come from."It’s an invisible crisis," emphasizes the UN’s new humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher."Twenty-five...
November 28, 2024

Nowhere else on Earth are so many children fleeing war

State commissioner Ify Obinabo is trying to crack down on the scam
‘Pregnant’ for 15 months: Inside the 'miracle' pregnancy scam
LAGOS — Chioma is adamant that Hope, the baby boy she is holding in her arms, is her son.  After eight years of failed attempts to conceive, she sees him as her miracle baby.“I’m the owner of my baby,” she says defiantly.She’s sitting next to her husband, Ike, in the office of a Nigerian state official who spends the best part of an hour interrogating the couple.As the commissioner for women affairs and social welfare in Anambra state, Ify Obinabo has plenty of experience in resolving family disputes – but this is no ordinary disagreement.Five members of Ike’s family, who are also present in the room, do not believe Hope is the couple’s biological child, as Chioma and Ike claim.Chioma claims to have “carried” the child for about 15 months. The commissioner and Ike’s...
November 25, 2024

‘Pregnant’ for 15 months: Inside the 'miracle' pregnancy scam

More than 11 million people have fled the fighting
Furious row at UN as Russia blocks Sudan ceasefire move
NEW YORK — In a move strongly condemned by the UK and US, Russia has vetoed a draft UK-backed Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Sudan.British Foreign Secretary David Lammy called the veto a "disgrace". But Russia accused the UK of meddling in Sudanese affairs without involving Sudan itself.Sudan's 19-month civil war is believed to have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people. More than 11 million have been forced from their homes.Aid workers say the conflict has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with many thousands at risk of famine.Sudanese activists have been highly critical of the UN for being slow to respond to the conflict.It began in April last year after the army and a powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support...
November 19, 2024

Furious row at UN as Russia blocks Sudan ceasefire move

Mali is one of Africa's top gold producers
Mali wins $160m in gold mining dispute after detaining British businessman
BAMAKO — An Australian mining company, Resolute Mining, says it will pay Mali's military government $160m (£126m) to settle a tax dispute, after the company's British boss and two other staff were unexpectedly detained 10 days ago.Reports say Terry Holohan and his colleagues were arrested while traveling to the capital city, Bamako, for what they were expecting to be routine negotiations.Resolute, which owns a gold mine in Mali, said on Sunday it would pay $80m immediately from existing cash reserves, and the rest in the coming months.Mali is one of Africa's top gold producers.It is is seeking to extract a greater share of income from foreign operators in the sector.It is not yet clear when the three Resolute employees will be released.Part of the conditions for their...
November 18, 2024

Mali wins $160m in gold mining dispute after detaining British businessman

The war in Sudan has forced millions from their homes
Sudan death toll far higher than previously reported — study
KHARTOUM — The war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary RSF has killed tens of thousands and forced millions from their homesThe number of people dying because of the civil war in Sudan is significantly higher than previously reported, according to a new study.More than 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state, where the fighting began last year, according to a report by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Sudan Research Group.Of these, 26,000 people were killed as a direct result of the violence, it said, noting that the leading cause of death across the Sudan was preventable disease and starvation.Many more people have died elsewhere in the country, especially in the western region of Darfur, where there have been numerous reports of atrocities and ethnic...
November 15, 2024

Sudan death toll far higher than previously reported — study

About 1,000 gold miners have already been arrested and the army and police are waiting for the rest
South Africa cuts supplies to thousands of illegal miners hiding underground
JOHANNESBURG — An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in an effort to "smoke them out" and arrest them.The miners have been in a mineshaft in Stilfontein, in the North West province, for about a month.They have refused to cooperate with authorities as some are undocumented - coming from neighboring countries like Lesotho and Mozambique - and fear being deported.Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country. Illegal mining costs the South African government hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales each year.Many South African mines have closed down in recent years and workers have been sacked.To...
November 15, 2024

South Africa cuts supplies to thousands of illegal miners hiding underground

Amnesty said it had verified pictures of the armoured vehicles on the ground in Darfur fitted with the French system
French weapons used in Sudan war despite UN arms embargo — Amnesty
LONDON — French military technology is being used in Sudan's brutal civil war in violation of a UN arms embargo, rights organization Amnesty International has said.It says the Rapid Support Forces militia is using vehicles in the Darfur region supplied by the United Arab Emirates that are fitted with French hardware as it battles the army."Our research shows that weaponry designed and manufactured in France is in active use on the battlefield in Sudan," said Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard.The BBC has asked for comment from France and the UAE, which has previously denied arming the RSF.Aid workers say the conflict in Sudan has led to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with many thousands at risk of famine.The Galix defense system — made in...
November 14, 2024

French weapons used in Sudan war despite UN arms embargo — Amnesty

Duma Boko, who made history last week after his party won the election, said Batswana could also learn skills from Zimbabweans
Botswana to legalize undocumented Zimbabweans — president
GABORONE — Botswana’s new president has told the BBC that he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalized by granting them temporary work and residence permits."They do jobs that would otherwise not get done," Duma Boko told the BBC Africa Daily podcast before his historic inauguration on Friday.Botswana hosts the world’s second-largest community of Zimbabweans fleeing their country’s economic woes — and they are often resented, with deportations taking place daily.The decision is not likely to be popular in the diamond-rich southern African nation, but Boko, 54, who has just unseated the ruling party that was in power for 58 years, said it was part of his plans to revive the economy.President Boko said it was a challenge when thousands of Zimbabweans entered Botswana...
November 08, 2024

Botswana to legalize undocumented Zimbabweans — president

The photos of the statue have gone viral in Ghana
Uproar in Ghana after president unveils his own statue
ACCRA — Ghana's outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo is facing a backlash on social media after he unveiled a statue of himself during a tour of the country’s Western Region.The monument is intended to honor the development initiatives the president has overseen whilst in office, the region's minister Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah says.But many Ghanaians have been mocking its installation — outside a hospital in the city of Sekondi — seeing it as "self glorification"."The people of the Western Region deserve better than these self-serving displays," opposition MP Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah posted on X.Akufo-Addo, who will be standing down in January after two terms in power, has boasted that he has fulfilled 80% of his promises to Ghanaians.He unveiled the...
November 08, 2024

Uproar in Ghana after president unveils his own statue

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