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Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is expected to return home, 10 years after he was taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity. Mr Gbagbo has been living in the Belgian capital Brussels since his release from detention three years ago. His successor and rival President Alassane Ouattara invited him back. He was the ...

Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) has announced the completion of the sale of its Dussafu Marin permit asset in Gabon to Panoro Energy ASA (Panoro). Tullow, on Wednesday, 9 June 2021, received a payment of $39 million from Panoro for the Dussafu asset and $5 million of contingent consideration relating to the Equatorial Guinea transaction. The transaction also included contingent cash ...

The president of Zambia Edgar Lungu fainted on Sunday during the country’s televised official annual ceremony for the National Defence Forces Day — which was immediately interrupted following the incident. The 64-year-old head of state — who is running for re-election in August, suffers from the rare disease achalasia. The condition affects the oesophagus and causes hypoglycaemic attacks. Lungu had ...

Taking to the sky, this drone leaves for a precise mission on a plantation in Kovié, a town located 40 km north of the Togolese capital, Lomé. By flying over these plantations, technicians on site have a number of objectives, including to collect data to help in soil fertilization. The drones are also used by technicians to detect diseases and ...

His followers called him the ‘prophet’ and each week he preached to thousands in his mega-church, countless more over his private TV channel and healed the sick with just a touch of his hand. T.B. Joshua became an evangelical phenomenon in Nigeria where religion, either Christian or Islamic, is king. The “Man of God” as his millions of followers — ...

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (“ETI”), the parent company of the Ecobank Group, the leading Pan-African banking group with banking operations in 33 countries has notified the Nigerian Exchange Limited, the Ghana Stock Exchange and the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières that it is seeking to raise US$300 million from the international debt capital markets through the issuance of tier-2 qualifying Sustainability ...

A Gauteng woman has given birth to 10 babies, breaking the Guinness World Record held by Malian Halima Cissé who gave birth to nine children in Morocco last month. Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, gave birth to her decuplets – two more than doctors had earlier detected during the medical scans – at a hospital in Pretoria last night, said her ...

France is suspending its joint military operations with Malian forces after a second coup in nine months in the country. The suspension is said will continue until France got assurance that Mali would restore to civil rule. In order to counter extremists in the Sahel area, French military have been supporting soldiers from Mali, Chad, Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso ...

French Prime minister Jean Castex was in Tunisia on Thursday, as the French government aims to increase its cooperation. Jean Castex met with his Tunisian counterpart Hichem Mechichi in capital city Tunis. Both delegations signed several agreements, and discussed crucial issues, such as the fight against terrorism, the stabilisation of Libya and Middle East but also illegal migration, the main ...

In a bid to help household owners and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria overcome the adverse effects caused by the Corona virus, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through NIRSAL Microfinance Bank, has announced the reopening of its portal for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and households affected by COVID-19 to access up to $70,000. Chairman, Nigeria ...