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DAKAR — Senegalese President Macky Sall has scheduled the country’s presidential election for March 24, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.“The President of the Republic informed the Council of Ministers that the date of the presidential election has been set for Sunday, March 24, 2024,” the statement read.The election was initially slated for February 25 but was postponed by Sall, sparking protests across the West African nation, with angry youths burning tires in the streets in protest.However, Senegal’s Constitutional Council barred his attempts to delay the election, ruling that it must be held before April 2, when Sall’s second and final term expires.Earlier on Wednesday, Sall dissolved the government and announced that sitting Prime Minister Amadou Ba would...
March 07, 2024
Senegal sets election date after protests sparked by delay
February 28, 2024
Dozens die after bus falls off bridge in Mali
BAMAKO — An elderly Italian couple and their son, who were kidnapped by extremists in Mali in May 2022, have been released, Italy's government has said.The three were in good health, and due to return to Rome, it added.The family were Jehovah's Witnesses who were reportedly planning to set up a church when they were abducted from their home outside the southern city of Koutiala.Their domestic worker, a Togolese national, was abducted along with them. The worker's fate is unclear.The release of the couple, Rocco Langone and Maria Donata Caivano, and their son, Giovanni Langone, was secured by Italy's intelligence agency and the Foreign Ministry, thanks to their contacts with community leaders and Mali's intelligence agencies, the Italian government said.The statement...
February 27, 2024
Italian Jehovah's Witnesses seized by miiltants in Mali freed
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's battle to defeat rhino poaching has taken a turn for the worse with the numbers killed rising in 2023.Last year, 499 rhinos were hunted, an increase of 51 from the previous year, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy said.South Africa is home to most of the world's rhinos.The country has some 2,000 black rhinos, considered to be "critically endangered", and around 13,000 white rhinos, classed as "near threatened".Looking back over 10 years, poaching has fallen sharply from 2014 but has increased more recently.Rhino horns have been in huge demand in Asian states such as China and Vietnam, where they are used in traditional medicines.The majority of animals killed last year were in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal...
February 27, 2024
South African rhinos poaching on the rise in new hotspot
February 26, 2024
Dozens killed during prayers in Burkina Faso mosque attack
February 26, 2024
Mauritius blocks Norwegian cruise ship over cholera fears
February 18, 2024
Former Tanzanian leader Nyerere honored by African Union statue
ACCRA — X, formerly known as Twitter, has finally paid off the staff it sacked in its African headquarters more than a year after they were laid off, the agency which represents them has said.Most had only been in the job, based in Ghana's capital, Accra, for a few months when the social media platform fired them in November 2022.They had threatened to take X to court for failing to pay the redundancy money they said they were promised.The company has not commented. X has previously said that it had paid ex-employees in full.Elon Musk, who took over the company in 2022, embarked on a massive global cull of employees, sacking more than 6,000 people.He had said he was losing more than $4m (£3.5m) a day.The African contingent, who number fewer than 20, had only just moved into X's...
February 18, 2024
Sacked Twitter staff in Ghana finally get pay-off
February 18, 2024
Zero waste, more hope in South Sudan
February 17, 2024
Senegal election: Opposition supporters march in Dakar calling for swift vote
