A planned reduction to the US military's footprint in Africa would not impact Army operations across the continent, the head of the US Army in Africa said Tuesday. The Pentagon last month announced it would trim about 10 percent of the 7,200 US troops in Africa as part of a broader shift in focus towards Great Power competitors such as China a ...

Delegates from some 50 African countries are attending the two-week negotiations in Poland, which are aimed at building confidence in the battle to limiting the increase in global average temperature to 1.5 C. The enthusiasm generated in Africa, by the 2015 Paris global accord, has been fading amid growing skepticism about humanity's ability to ...

Is Nigeria's current president Mohammadu Buhari or a clone? An extraordinary story has been trending on social media in Nigeria that the man now in charge of the country is not Buhari but a lookalike from Sudan called Djubril. The man currently living in the presidential Aso Rock Villa in Abuja is in Poland for the Katowice 24 Climate Summit. He ...

Madagascar presidential hopeful Marc Ravalomanana has said he is confident of closing the gap for a second round victory over his rival who narrowly beat him in the first leg of presidential polls. Andry Rajoelina got 39.23 percent of votes and Ravalomanana 35.35 percent in last month's poll, according to final results, setting up the pair for a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged all parties meeting in Geneva this week to discuss the Western Sahara dispute to be constructive and impose no conditions for formal talks. Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania are taking part in two days of roundtable discussion with a UN envoy starting Wednesday to try to r ...

More than 200 students at Makerere University are set to benefit from a new SciDev.Net training course called Script aimed at nurturing the science journalists of tomorrow and addressing the lack of high-quality science reporting in Africa. The Script training course and networking programme, which is funded by Robert Bosch -Stiftung and was lau ...

A growing number of migrants are flocking to Yemen, even as its dire humanitarian crisis deepens, with nearly 150,000 expected to arrive in the war-ravaged country in 2018, the UN said Tuesday. Yemen remains a major stop on the route for migrants from Africa to wealthy Gulf states, and smugglers are taking advantage of the chaos of the war to ev ...

Maputo, Mozambique, 3 December 2018 ndash; The African Development Bank (through its Trade Finance operations) has signed a US$20 million facility to finance Meridian rsquo;s operations in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. This Soft Commodity Finance Facility is designed to provide pre- and post-shipment finance along various stages of Me ...

US director James Gray, chairman of this year's Marrakech film festival, on Monday lambasted his country's President Donald Trump as an imbecile and source of embarrassment for Americans abroad. It's been very hard for me to be here because the president of the United States is a moron and a very dangerous moron, he told a news conference in ...

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika called off a meeting with visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday because of ill health, the national news agency APS reported. It said the 81-year-old president, whose health has been fragile since he suffered a stroke in 2013 and is rarely seen in public, was in bed with a heavy flu . ...

Nigerian Multi-Billionaire, Aliko Dangote has rewarded the Nigeria women rsquo;s national football team with a whooping amount of 50 Million Naira for winning the just ended 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations staged in Ghana. The Super Falcons edged a resilient South African Banyana Banyana side 4-3 on penalties after a scoreless 120 minutes, to l ...

ASEC Mimosas of the Ivory Coast are the former CAF Champions League winners in most danger of elimination when the 2018/2019 preliminary round resumes this week. The Abidjan club who conquered Africa in 1998 hold a precarious 1-0 lead over Mangasport of Gabon going into the second leg in Libreville Wednesday. Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pir ...

The 2018/2019 CAF Confederation Cup preliminary round second legs this week offer four newcomers in the second-tier African competition a chance to triumph. Armed Forces of the Gambia and Mukura Victory of Rwanda drew away while AS Nyuki of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Silver Strikers of Malawi trail by one-goal margins. A more experi ...

Moroccan club Raja Casablanca ended a 15-year wait for an African trophy by winning the CAF Confederation Cup in the Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday despite a 3-1 second-leg loss to V Club. Raja, who won the last edition of the CAF Cup in 2003, beat V Club 3-0 in the first leg in Casablanca last Sunday and triumphed 4-3 on aggregate in the t ...

An army of humans laid waste to an alien colony as South African video game maker Simon Spreckley enthusiastically controlled the action using his phone's touch screen. The penetration of mobile devices in Africa is huge. People often have two or three phones, which is pretty crazy, said Spreckley, 40, who wore a T-shirt emblazoned with Brute ...

US actor Robert De Niro on Saturday received a tribute award at the Marrakech film festival from the hands of his old friend, director Martin Scorcese. Born in New York in 1943, De Niro's career began on Broadway, before he discovered cinema at age 20. He worked on a variety of films with Scorsese -- from Taxi Driver in 1976 to Casino in 199 ...

The UN refugee agency appealed on Friday for an urgent solution to the plight of 12 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean, as activists said they had evacuated one of them to Malta. Spanish aid group Proactiva Open Arms, which helped a Spanish fishing vessel rescue the migrants more than a week ago, told AFP that one young man suffering from de ...

Liverpool trio Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Naby Keita are among 34 nominees named Friday for the 2018 African Player of the Year award. Egyptian Salah won the award last year after scoring 44 goals in all competitions during his first season at Anfield. Senegalese Mane has been in outstanding form for Liverpool this season while Guinean Kei ...

The discovery of tools and cut bones in Algeria shows that human ancestors were in north Africa hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, putting into question east Africa's position as the so-called cradle of civilization. A team of international researchers from institutions in Algeria, Spain, France and Algeria found and ...

In a nondescript brick building on the snowy edge of Estonia's second city Tartu, soldiers in camouflage tap silently at computers. They are troops manning the 21st century's front line. With its harsh lighting and partitioned desks, the room could be any soulless office. But this is NATO's cyber range and these men and women are running the a ...