Nairobi (AFP) - Tanzania's main opposition party claimed Tuesday that the government of President John Magufuli played a role in the gun attack last week that wounded an outspoken politician and shocked the country. The lawmaker, Tundu Lissu, has had a series of run-ins with the government and has been arrested at least six times this year, accu ...
Tunis (AFP) - Tunisia's presidency on Tuesday expressed its regret over the expulsion of Morocco's Prince Moulay Hicham, first cousin of King Mohammed VI, but did not explain why he had been deported. The prince was expelled from Tunisia Friday after arriving to attend an academic conference organised by Stanford University on the political tran ...
Madrid (AFP) - The number of migrants arriving in Spain so far this year has soared more than 88 percent from the same period in 2016, Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said Tuesday. Speaking in a parliamentary commission on internal affairs, he added that the number of people merely attempting to get to the Spanish overseas territory of Ceut ...
Paris (AFP) - The Russian ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov and Senegalese music star Youssou N'Dour were among the winners of one of the art world's richest prizes Tuesday. The Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, whose work focuses on the inner life and struggles of Muslim women, was also among the big winners of the Praemium Imperiale, the lucrative ...
Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, September 11, 2017 ndash; The President of the African Development Bank Group and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Africa50, Akinwumi Adesina, will attend the third shareholders meeting of Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform, in Dakar, Senegal, on Tuesday, September 12. Th ...
Brussels (AFP) - More than three-quarters of children and young adults trying to migrate to Europe via the Mediterranean are victims of abuse on the dangerous journey, UN agencies said in a report published Tuesday. Children's rights agency UNICEF and the International Organisation for Migration said young migrants coming from sub-Saharan Africa ...
Tunis (AFP) - Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi strengthened his grip on power late Monday when parliament approved a cabinet reshuffle ahead of key elections. Observers say the new cabinet, which places Essebsi allies in key positions, consolidates the 90-year-old president's hold on the executive, months ahead of Tunisia's first post-revol ...
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