Luanda (AFP) - Angola's constitutional court on Wednesday upheld the ruling party's landslide win in last month's election which will usher in the MPLA's fourth decade in power and rejected opposition claims the poll was flawed. The ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola won 61.7 percent of the vote, and 150 of the 220 seats in par ...
Paris (AFP) - Like escaped convicts, elephants in eastern Africa have learned to travel at night and hide during the day to avoid poachers who are hunting tuskers into extinction, researchers reported Wednesday. Normally elephants forage for food and migrate in daylight, while resting under cover of darkness. But a sharp increase in illegal h ...
Washington (AFP) - US forces in Somalia conducted three air strikes on Islamist Shabaab targets Wednesday, killing six fighters with the Al-Qaeda linked group, the US military said. The pre-dawn operation occurred in southern Somalia about 160 miles (260 kilometers) south of Mogadishu. The strikes were conducted under powers President Donald ...
Algiers (AFP) - An Algerian court on Wednesday found the head of the country's tiny Ahmadi community guilty of offending Islam and handed him a six-month suspended sentence, his lawyer said. Mohamed Fali was handed a six-month suspended sentence. He was found guilty of unauthorised fundraising and offending the Prophet and Islam, Salah Dabou ...
Rabat (AFP) - Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) voiced alarm Wednesday after a Moroccan court increased the prison sentence of a journalist to one year for inciting an unauthorised protest. Hamid El Mahdaoui, who heads the Badil online news site, was arrested in July at the start of a banned demonstration in the restive northern cit ...
Dakar, Senegal, September 12, 2017 ndash; quot;With Africa50 we have an important partner, with all the enthusiasm and vigour that is necessary for Africa rsquo;s economic transformation, quot; Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), told shareholders in Senegal. Adesina spoke at the Shareholder Meeting o ...
Bill and Melinda Gates Call for Strong Leadership to Address quot;Solvable Human Misery quot; SEATTLE, United States of America, September 13, 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Bill amp; Melinda Gates Foundation today launched an inaugural annual report showcasing the remarkable progress that has been made in reducing ex ...
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