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Seven Islamist militants surrendered to Algerian authorities on Wednesday near the North African country’s border with Mali, the defence ministry said. Security forces recovered arms including six Kalashnikov assault rifles, the ministry said in a statement. Violence has declined in Algeria since the 1990s, when a conflict between the state and Islamist insurgents killed an estimated 200,000 people. Al Qaeda ...

South Sudan’s president and rebel leader met on Wednesday for the first time since 2016, when a peace deal collapsed and fighting re-erupted between their forces, the Ethiopian prime minister’s chief of staff said. “The PM Abiy Ahmed hosted a private dinner to President Salva Kiir & Dr Rieck Machar together,” Fitsum Arega said on his Twitter account. HE PM ...

West Africa dominates the agri-tech startup space – home to two of the three largest startup ecosystems active in this sector, a new report has stated. According to the ‘Agrinnovating for Africa: Exploring the African Agri-Tech Startup Ecosystem Report 2018’, the region accounts for 44 per cent of Africa’s agri-tech startups, spread across six countries. Unsurprisingly, Nigeria is the key ...

A sit-at-home protest is expected to be observed in Togo this Monday after opposition parties in the country called on supporters to sustain their protest for political reforms. Mass anti-government rallies have repeatedly been held across the country in recent months, with protesters demanding constitutional reforms and an end to the 50-year rule by the Gnassingbe family. They also want ...

Cameroonian separatists have made allegations of corruption over the Limbe Floating Liquefied Natural Gas LNG deal with London based New Age African Global Energy and Och-Ziff. In a statement, the separatists who are agitating for an anglophone independent state from Cameroon called on international anti corruption authorities to investigate Steve Lowden, of the New Age Africa global Energy, alleging his ...

Eight Kenyan police officials were killed in the eastern part of the country on Sunday after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device planted by Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group, police said. Al Shabaab is fighting to topple Somalia’s government, establish their own rule based on their strict interpretation of Islamic law and drive out of the country peacekeepers deployed ...

Russia got their World Cup campaign off to a dream start with a 5-0 thumping of Saudi Arabia but face an entirely different beast in the form of Egypt, who should be revitalised by the return of their talismanic striker Mohamed Salah. The hosts face the north Africans in St Petersburg on Tuesday and defeat would almost certainly condemn Egypt ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered the interim release “under specific conditions” of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the ex-vice president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following his acquittal last week on war crimes charges. The 55-year-old was acquitted on Friday and his 18-year sentence was overturned, but he remained in custody because he is awaiting a final sentencing in ...

Tanzanian prosecutors on Wednesday charged two chief executives of mobile phone companies and four other suspects with fraud as part of a crackdown against tax evasion in the East African nation. The executives charged were Le Van Dai, 35, managing director of Halotel Tanzania, owned by Vietnam-based telecoms operator Viettel, and Sherif El Barbary, managing director of Zantel. Dai is ...

The fight against a deadly Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is giving reason for cautious optimism, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. “It’s stabilizing. We’re optimistic, cautiously optimistic,” he told Reuters. He said he would travel to Congo on Sunday to check on progress a month into the outbreak, and would also go to ...