Penalty shootout heroics from Dutch goalkeeper Peter Leeuwenburgh ensured UEFA Champions League winner Benni McCarthy won his first South African trophy as a coach Saturday. McCarthy's Cape Town City dominated Supersports in an MTN8 final in Indian Ocean city Durban that ended 0-0 after extra time. Leeuwenburgh then saved two shootout kicks t ...

The United Nations has invited Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front to talks in December on ending their decades-old conflict over Western Sahara, diplomats said Saturday. UN envoy Horst Koehler, a former president of Germany and ex-director of the International Monetary Fund, has invited the two sides along with Algeria and Mauritani ...

Eritrea's foreign minister on Saturday called for sanctions against his country to be lifted as a result of the peace deal with Ethiopia and demanded compensation for the economic hardship. Two months after the peace deal was signed, the UN Security Council has not moved to lift the arms embargo and targeted sanctions imposed on Eritrea in 2009 ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 28, 2018 (ECA) ndash; The Sixth Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa-VI) begins in Addis Ababa Monday under the theme; Enhancing National Statistical System capacity to support policies for Africa rsquo;s economic diversification and industrialization. African Centre for Statistics (ACS) Dire ...

By Kester Kenn Klomegah, GNA 39;s Moscow Bureau Chief MOSCOW, Russia, Sept 28, GNA - With the current sanctions between Europe and Russia there is massive opportunity for African producers to develop their trading relationships with Russia, Managing Director at the Catalyze - International Events, Rex Bowden, has said in an interview with Ghana ...

The last civilian rescue ship in the central Mediterranean is unable to take 58 migrants to port for fear of being impounded as other boats have been in what aid groups say is an illegal campaign to stop their work. While the Aquarius waits to transfer its passengers to a Maltese coastguard vessel in international waters after Panama pulled its ...

The voice of dissent in Comoros is increasingly being stifled -- opposition figures, a writer and even military leaders have been arrested while the media has been silenced by the government of President Azali Assoumani. He is accused of trying to extend his rule at any cost and in July won 92.74 percent of votes cast in a referendum on increa ...

Thursday, September 27, 2018. Lagos, Nigeria. Since laboratory professionals play a vital role in the identification of diseases, ensuring the reliability of laboratory investigations and reporting laboratory findings to the clinicians for timely and adequate patient management; experts are advocating for new initiatives and partnersh ...

Madagascar must find a new home venue for Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Equatorial Guinea and Sudan after being barred from using the national stadium over a deadly stampede. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced disciplinary measures Friday after one person was killed and 41 injured ahead of a Cup of Nations match aga ...

KIGALI, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) - African economies need to strengthen efforts to accelerate digital literacy across the continent in order to achieve full transition to knowledge-based society, scholars said Thursday. They were speaking at the opening of 13th International Conference and Exhibition on ICT for Education, Training and Skills Developmen ...

Abengourou, Sept 27, (AIP) - The spokesperson for the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in charge of overseeing voting in the region of Indiana-Djuablin, Me Victoire Alley, has called for violence-free election campaign. I hope that the election campaign that will open on Friday unfolds without violence so that the vote will be held withou ...

Abidjan, Sep 27 (AIP) - Rapha Atilde; laquo;l Lakp Atilde; copy;, President of the National Press Authority (ANP), a regulatory authority for online and print media in C Atilde; acute;te d 39;Ivoire, has asked the Ivorian News Agency (AIP) and the daily Fraternit Atilde; copy; Matin to ensure fair coverage of the October 13 regional and municipal ...

Forty-two people have died in flooding in Niger since the start of the rainy season in June, most of them in northern desert areas, according to a UN report released Thursday. Nearly 205,000 people have been affected by the floods, which have destroyed 16,992 houses, said the report by the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...

Human rights activists on Thursday hit out at Morocco's navy for firing on a boat that was carrying migrants to Spain, in an assault that killed a 22-year-old student. Hayat Belkacem died and three other Moroccans were wounded -- one critically -- when a speedboat they were in was hit by live rounds on Tuesday in waters off the Moroccan locality ...

A cholera outbreak in Niger has killed 67 people since July out of thousands of recorded cases, the UN said Thursday, citing health ministry figures. The epicentre is the southern Maradi region, near the border with Nigeria where a separate outbreak has claimed nearly 100 lives, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said. Fifty-five of the deaths w ...

Wetlands, among the world's most valuable and biodiverse ecosystems, are disappearing at alarming speed amid urbanisation and agriculture shifts, conservationists said Thursday, calling for urgent action to halt the erosion. We are in a crisis, Martha Rojas Urrego, head of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, told reporters in Geneva, warning of ...

More than 4,000 prisoners serving time for minor crimes in Ivory Coast are to receive a presidential pardon, the government said following a cabinet meeting Wednesday. A statement said 4,200 prisoners of a total 19,000 nationwide would received pardons as an act of clemency, and that, while their crimes would not be expunged from their records ...

Solar energy could be a huge source of power in Africa, but its potential has been stymied by storage batteries that are too expensive and inadequate for use in poor countries. The World Bank aims to break through that bottleneck, announcing plans Wednesday to invest $1 billion -- and leverage it by another $4 billion -- to boost developing coun ...

Madagascar's government faced a backlash on Wednesday after it moved to have the publication of an opinion poll ahead of presidential elections cancelled, claiming it was protecting public order . The survey, commissioned by the German Friedrich Ebert foundation, canvassed voting intentions ahead of the first round of presidential voting on Nov ...

Scientists in the US said Wednesday they have discovered a way to suppress HIV in patients for months at a time using a twin dose of antibodies that could revolutionise how the disease is treated. Globally, a record number of people receive antiretroviral drugs to manage HIV, but they must follow strict medical regimes to stay healthy, typically ...