ABIDJAN, 8 April 2019 ndash; Debating and discussing African migrations, youth, and jobs, the 2019 Ibrahim Governance Weekend, held in Abidjan 5-7 April, heard that the global view of African migrations urgently needs to be reset since distorted data leads to inadequate policies. African migrations present an opportunit ...

A Comoran opposition leader arrested after challenging the outcome of presidential elections last month was freed Monday and immediately retracted claims of electoral fraud. Colonel Soilihi Mohamed was picked up on March 28 after declaring he was heading a National Transitional Council (CNT) calling for a new vote. President Azali Ass ...

African countries barely existed when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human rights in Paris, France in 1948, three years after the end of the Second World War. It was the first time an internationally agreed document unequivocally says that all human beings are free and equal, irrespective of their color, creed or religio ...

To experience a taste of African culture deep inside the Big Apple, visitors mdash;including many Senegalese mdash;turn to Le Petit Senegal (Little Senegal), a West African neighborhood in West Harlem, New York. African grocery shops, fabric stores, hair braiding parlors and regional restaurants sit shoulder to shoulder along the streets. The Sa ...

The International Criminal Court, beset by allegations of vulnerability to manipulation, has suffered another blow after the US announced it would not grant ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda or any of her staff visas into the country. According to the Nairobi-based East African Standard< ...

The young man picks up a heavy wooden horn, raises it to his lips and with widened eyes and puffed cheeks starts to blow. A primal rumble emerges from the mouth of the instrument. On a stony hill in Bambari, deep in the heart of the Central African Republic, 14 other horns start to sound, each with a unique hum, and an impromptu polypho ...

Africa 39;s youth are bearing the brunt of the crisis on the African continent due to poor governance, not migration, according to a panel headed by former Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation weekend in Abidjan, Cote d 39;Ivoire that focused in the issue of jobs or migration for Africa 39;s youths. ldqu ...

Fatigued Nkana FC of Zambia defend a 60-match record of never losing a CAF match at home when they host CS Sfaxien of Tunisia Sunday in a Confederation Cup quarter-final. The Zambians go into the first leg in mining city Kitwe with coach Beston Chambeshi admitting that fixture congestion is taking its toll on his players. We lack breat ...

Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa stunned record eight-time trophy holders Al Ahly of Egypt 5-0 Saturday in the first leg of a CAF Champions League quarter-final near Pretoria. It was the heaviest defeat suffered by the Cairo Red Devils in a CAF match and leaves them with virtually no chance in the second leg next weekend. Themba Zwane ...

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, known as Africa 39;s richest man, told a forum in Ivory Coast on Saturday how he once took $10 million in cash out of the bank just to look at it and get it into his head that this was real money, not just figures on paper. When you 39;re young your first million is important, but after, the numbers do ...

Belgium 39;s Prime Minister Charles Michel has formally apologized for the country 39;s role in kidnapping mixed-race children from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi between 1959 and 1962. ldquo;On behalf of the federal government, I apologize to the mixed race people with roots in Belgian colonization and to their fam ...

Democratic Republic of Congo club TP Mazembe are on high alert before a CAF Champions League quarter-final in Tanzania Saturday after 39;dirty tricks 39; allegations against opponents Simba SC. Another Congolese side, V Club, said they were unable to use the changeroom in Dar es Salaam ahead of a group game last month because of a stran ...

The Foundation Human Rights for Eritreans, a Netherlands-based organization of exiled Eritreans, is suing the European Union.The NGO claims that the EU is financing a project in which forced labour eing used The 20 million euros project is to finance a road in Eritrea as part of its programme to minimize migration from Africa into Europe. ...

As dawn breaks high in Kenya 39;s Rift Valley, car headlights pick out groups of elite athletes, mere silhouettes on roadsides as their grinding daily training routine gets under way. Coach Lawrence Saina, himself a sub-2hr 10min marathon runner in his day, oversees nine of his Kenyan proteges, sending them out on a 40-kilometre (25-mile) ...

Pulane Koboekae looked pensively at the seven nooses suspended over a trap door in Pretoria Central Prison where her brother Richard Motsoahae was hanged by South Africa 39;s apartheid regime in 1964. Then she pulled out a white tissue and sobbed silently. It has opened up old wounds. I 39;m feeling mixed emotions. I feel sick, but a ...

A London-based international court has ordered Djibouti to pay $385 million in compensation to UAE global ports operator DP World over a breach of contract, the Dubai government said on Thursday. The London Court of International Arbitration also ordered the African nation to pay interest for unilaterally scrapping a 50-year concession cont ...

Embattled US aviation giant Boeing on Thursday insisted on the fundamental safety of its 737 MAX aircraft but pledged to take all necessary steps to ensure the jets 39; airworthiness. The statements came hours after Ethiopian officials said pilots of a doomed plane had crashed last month after following the company 39;s recommendations, ...

Algeria 39;s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has stepped down following mounting pressure from the people and the army. But just how powerful is Algeria 39;s army and what role might they play in the months to come as Algeria prepares for its elections? Algeria is an army that has a state hellip;.Tunisia is a state with an army rdquo; , ...

Not so long ago, the sight of Umm Yasser clad in a black abaya leading hikers through the intricate trails of the majestic South Sinai mountains would have been unthinkable. But now, along with three other women from the Hamada tribe, she is a guide for Sinai Trail . Since 2016, the community-backed organisation has been working to bri ...

Brunei on Wednesday introduced harsh new sharia laws, including death by stoning for adultery and gay sex, despite a storm of global criticism from politicians, celebrities and rights groups. The tough penal code in the tiny country on tropical Borneo island -- ruled by the all-powerful Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah -- fully came into force follo ...