Born in an African refugee camp, a Canadian international at 16 and now a Bayern Munich player aged just 18, Alphonso Davies' life already reads like a movie script. It's like something out of a film, admits Bob Lenarduzzi, president of the Vancouver Whitecaps, referring to the talented teenager for whom Bayern reportedly paid $13 million (11. ...

Burkina Faso's army chief was sacked on Thursday as the armed forces struggle to put a stop to jihadist attacks in the west African nation. Major General Oumarou Sadou was replaced by General Moise Minoungou, according to a presidential decree read on public television. For three years Burkina Faso has faced increasingly frequent and deadly j ...

Opposition parties and civil society groups in Guinea voiced outrage Thursday after Russia's ambassador suggested the constitution be changed to let President Alpha Conde stay in power. Russian envoy Alexander Bregadze put forward the idea on Wednesday at ceremonies attended by Conde to mark the New Year. In a speech that he made as dean of t ...

Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi was on Thursday declared winner of DR Congo's presidential election, but his victory was dismissed by the runner-up and questioned by the Catholic church, clouding the vote's legitimacy and hopes of peace. In a pre-dawn announcement, election officials named Tshisekedi, son of the country's long-term opposition ...

Norway's Aker Energy on Thursday said it had discovered oil in commercial quantities off Ghana, which the government welcomed as a potential boost to the economy. The oil and gas operator said exploratory drilling indicated an estimated 450-550 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) in the Pecan field, 166 kilometres (100 miles) off Takarad ...

Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, 09 January 2019 ndash; The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a USD 32.5 million equity investment in Climate Investor One rsquo;s (CIO) Construction Equity Fund (CEF), a platform that uses a unique blended finance approach, and targets the entire asset lifecycle to deliver ...

Internally displaced people offload food, blankets, and other goods after fleeing militant attacks in Naunde, northern Mozambique, on June 13, 2018. A Mozambican journalist was arrested on January 5, 2019, and held in a military prison after photographing families who fled the militant attacks. (AFP/Joaquim Nhamirre) New York, January 9, 20 ...

As the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) braces itself for the long-awaited results of national elections, Amnesty International warned that a human rights crisis is looming in the country that could force countless people to flee if protests turn violent. More than 20,000 people have already fled the country since mid-December 2018. ldqu ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is set to see its first handover of power in 18 years after opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi was Thursday named by election officials as the provisional winner of an historic presidential poll. The election's supervisors had faced mounting pressure at home and abroad to publish the results after repeated del ...

A number of popular African clubs who have not won a continental competition for a long time will be in CAF Confederation Cup play-offs first-leg action this weekend. It is 42 years since Nigerians Enugu Rangers won the now defunct African Cup Winners Cup and Ghanaians Asante Kotoko lifted the African Cup of Champions Clubs trophy 36 years ago. ...

Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi has won the long-awaited presidential poll in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the electoral commission said Thursday, paving the way for the country's first handover of power in 18 years. Having gained... 38.57 percent of the vote, Felix Tshisekedi is provisionally declared the elected president of the De ...

Ghana's economy posted a robust 7.4 percent growth rate in 2018, but up to one third of the country's lenders have disappeared from the financial landscape since the start of 2019, according the African weekly Jeune Afrique . The influential publication reports on its website that the shutdowns are the outcome of a directive from the Ban ...

International Criminal Court judges will rule next Tuesday on whether to release former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo as his trial for crimes against humanity drags on, the court said. Gbagbo, 73, has spent seven years in detention in The Hague accused of fomenting bloodshed after refusing to accept defeat in elections in the West African ...

Mozambican authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalistAmade Abubacar from arbitrary detention by military forces and end the escalating crackdown on journalists, Amnesty International said today. On 5 January, police in the Macomia district of Cabo Delgado arrested Amade Abubacar while he was interviewing a group of ...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday blamed conspirators for violence during deadly anti-government protests, as an impoverished town held a martyrs' rally to honour those killed. Bashir, speaking at a military base near the town of Atbara where the first protest erupted last month, also slammed some political groups who have called fo ...

A collision between a Tunisian boat and a Cypriot container ship that sent hundreds of tonnes of fuel spilling into the Mediterranean in October was due to an extraordinary series of human errors, investigators said Monday. The watch officer on board the Tunisian vessel Ulysse was chatting on his phone, while his counterpart on the Cypriot conta ...

Mozambique said Monday it was working with US and South African authorities after its former finance minister was arrested in Johannesburg over $2 billion in alleged secret loans to Mozambican state companies. Manuel Chang, 63, was arrested on December 29 and will appear in a Johannesburg court on Tuesday for an extradition hearing after US auth ...

Pope Francis on Sunday urged EU leaders to show concrete solidarity with 49 migrants stranded on NGO ships off the coast of Malta who have been refused permission to land. But both Italy and Malta, who have refused port access to the rescue vessels, on Sunday reiterated their positions. Forty-nine migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by t ...

A UN report has warned that vast areas of impunity remain globally for people traffickers, with victims subjected to crimes ranging from sexual exploitation to organ removal. Despite a recent trend towards more people trafficking convictions in many African and Middle Eastern countries, the report from the UN Office and Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ...

Pope Francis on Sunday urged EU leaders to show concrete solidarity with 49 migrants stranded on NGO ships off the coast of Malta who have been refused permission to land. But both Italy and Malta, who have refused port access to the rescue ships, on Sunday reiterated their positions. Forty-nine migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by two ...