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• May 24, 2022

  Somali FM Suspended For Charcoal Trade

  Somalia's prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble, suspended Foreign Minister Abdisaid Muse Ali on Tuesday, citing the authorization of a ship exporting charcoal to Oman in violation of international sanctions.

• May 24, 2022

  CAR Launches Cryptocurrency Hub Despite IMF Concerns

  Central African Republic will launch the continent's first legal cryptocurrency investment hub, the presidency said, extending the impoverished country's embrace of digital finance despite words of caution from the International Monetary Fund.

• May 24, 2022

  Digital Project "Recovers" Plundered African Art

  A Nigerian man has launched a project called "Looty" to reclaim African artifacts stolen by European colonisers by creating 3-D images of them, selling them as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and using the proceeds to fund young African artists.

• May 24, 2022

  Borno Bloodied By Militants Again

  At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria's Borno state, in the country's northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters.

• May 23, 2022

  Davos Delves Into Recession Discussions

  Multiple threats to the global economy topped the worries of the world's well-heeled at the annual Davos think-fest on Monday, with some flagging the risk of a worldwide recession.

• May 23, 2022

  Addis Jails Over 4,000 In Amhara Critics Crackdown

  Ethiopian authorities have arrested more than 4,000 people in the northern Amhara region, local state media said on Monday, as part of a wider crackdown against militia fighters, critics and the press.

• May 23, 2022

  Ukraine Sets Life in Prison For Convicted Russian War Criminal

  A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier to life in prison on Monday for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial arising from Russia's invasion.

• May 23, 2022

  Missing Nigerian Lawmaker Found Dead in Separatist Area

  Police in Nigeria have discovered remains of a state legislator who went missing last week in the southeastern state of Anambra, where the government accuses separatists of carrying out a spate of killings and kidnappings, police said on Sunday.

• May 23, 2022

  Scholz In Senegal Seeking Gas Supplies as Sall Seeks Ukraine Mediation Role

  As Germany's Chancellor arrived in Senegal to forge deals for getting its natural gas as part of a three nation trip, Senegal's President, Macky Sall, announced at a joint news conference that as the African Union's current president, he offers to media the Russian attack upon Ukraine.

• May 22, 2022

  Torrents Tear Through Kwa-Zulu Natal - Again

  Hundreds of people have been evacuated to safety after heavy rains have once again hammered South Africa's coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, flooding roads and houses and damaging properties, a government official said on Sunday.

• May 21, 2022

  Tunisia Opposition Presses President Saied For A Voice

  Tunisia's political parties have pledged to fight President Kais Saied's decision to exclude them from key political reforms including the drafting of a new constitution, accusing him of seeking to consolidate autocratic rule.

• May 20, 2022

  Sudan Pol Grabbed as Rage Grips Khartoum

  A leading Sudanese politician was arrested on Thursday as protests raged in the capital Khartoum for the seventh month against military rule,

• May 18, 2022

  Mozambique Declares Polio Outbreak

  Mozambique has declared a polio outbreak after the virus was detected in a child living in the northeastern Tete region, the first case of the poliovirus in the country in almost three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

• May 18, 2022

  Smoking Declines While Africa Lights Up

  Smoking rates have declined globally for the first time on record, Reuters reports. But the new report on tobacco use from a public health campaign group and U.S. academics shows Africa, including its youth, is gaining puffers.

• May 17, 2022

  Clashes Rock Tripoli as Libyan Rivals Fight in Capital 

  Crisis risks plunging Libya back into prolonged fighting after two years of comparative peace

• February 17, 2020

  As South Sudan Deadline to Form Unity Government Looms, Soldiers and Rebels Hastily Gather

  Machar arrived in Juba from the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday and he and Kiir are due to meet on Tuesday

• September 24, 2018

  S. Sudan Government Forces, Rebels Clash Within Weeks of Peace Deal

  President Salva Kiir recently signed a peace agreement with rebel factions to end a civil war that has killed at least 50,000 people, displaced 2 million

• May 09, 2017

  Gunmen Attack S. Sudan Vice President's Convoy, Injuring Bodyguards

  First Vice President Gai was not in the convoy when the ambush took place on a highway linking the capital Juba with the town of Bor, leaving three people wounded