When Charles Immanuel Akhimien was a medical student he was shocked to learn that a former classmate had died from a back-alley abortion. The brilliant young woman 39;s life may have been spared if she had the kind of apps that are available today that discreetly inform young people about sex, Akhimien said. When it comes to contracep ...

Police in Comoros arrested defeated presidential hopeful Soilihi Mohamed on Thursday, a campaign official told AFP, as officers also broke up a women 39;s protest march arresting 12 demonstrators. Campaign official Kamal Eddin Sindou confirmed the arrest of Mohamed, who was named on Wednesday as the head of an opposition coalition to chall ...

Gunfire rocked the Comoran capital Thursday after police arrested a defeated presidential hopeful who was named head of an opposition transitional authority hoping to unseat President Azali Assoumani. An aide confirmed the arrest of former military colonel Soilihi Mohamed who came third in Sunday 39;s poll which the opposition said was rig ...

Police in Comoros arrested 12 women on Thursday, activists said, after they took to the streets to protest the re-election of President Azali Assoumani in polls they say were rigged. The opposition has flatly rejected Azali 39;s victory with 60.77 percent of the vote in Sunday 39;s polls as the angry mood threatened to spark a new politic ...

A tanker that was hijacked by migrants off Libya docked in Malta on Thursday after the Maltese armed forces took control of the vessel. The Palau-flagged tanker Elhiblu I had picked up the 108 migrants including women and children on Tuesday evening and then headed back to Tripoli. But six nautical miles from port the ship suddenly chan ...

Italian prosecutors have lifted a block on a boat that rescued 49 migrants off the Libyan coast and brought them to Italy in mid-March, the collective operating it announced Wednesday. Happy to announce that the Mare Jonio is free, the Mediterranea collective of aid groups announced. Prosecutors in Agrigento, on the southern island of Sicil ...

Praia, Cabo Verde, 27 March 2019 ndash; The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 630 million years of healthy life were lost in 2015 due to the diseases afflicting the population across its 47 Member States in Africa, now amounting to a loss of more than 2.4 trillion international dollars ($) from the region rsquo;s gross d ...

The opposition in Comoros rejected Wednesday the re-election of President Azali Assoumani, saying his victory came at the cost of massive fraud, as the angry mood threatened to spark a new political crisis on the archipelago. The head of the CENI election board, Djaza Ahmed Mohameda, proclaimed Azali winner on Tuesday, with 60.77 percent of ...

Seven years in the making, the Continental Free Trade Area is almost established. A minimum of 22 states is needed to bring the trade bloc into force; only 21 African states have so far ratified the agreement. Nigeria, the continent 39;s largest economy, is still considering whether to join the club. The idea of an African common market ha ...

Comoros President Azali Assoumani was re-elected Tuesday by a landslide, according to results published by the electoral commission, in a divisive poll that has sparked tensions and opposition accusations of fraud in the Indian Ocean archipelago. Azali, who first took office in 2016, was credited with 60.77 percent of the vote following Sun ...

The auction of 40 artefacts taken from the ancient kingdom of Dahomey during a military campaign in the 19th century, and held in a private collection for decades, was cancelled following a dramatic intervention by African activists in the city of Nantes. The objects are set to be returned to Benin. What started out as a regular ...

Survivors of a cyclone that pummelled southern Africa began receiving medicine, food and tents Tuesday as floodwaters receded, while officials warned up to 500,000 people are displaced in the storm-struck region. Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique 39;s coast, unleashing hurricane-force wind and rain that flooded swathes of the poor count ...

Several southern African leaders on Tuesday threw their support behind Western Sahara, with one calling the disputed territory the last colony on the African continent. President Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of the continental powerhouse South Africa, described the gathering in the South African capital Pretoria as a historic act of solidarit ...

A 2.3 percent jump in global energy demand last year outstripped the expansion of renewables and helped drive record-high greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Tuesday. Fossil fuels satisfied nearly 70 percent of that growth for the second year running, with natural gas accounting for 45 percent of the rise in ...

Counting of votes cast in the first round of Comoros 39; presidential polls continued on Tuesday as tensions mounted between re-election-seeking President Azali Assoumani and his rivals who accuse him of fraud. Twelve people were injured on Monday when police fired teargas and rubber bullets at opposition candidates and supporters as they ...

Hong Kong 39;s former home affairs secretary Patrick Ho Chi Ping was jailed for three years Monday for a scheme to bribe African officials to boost a top Chinese energy company that was part of Beijing 39;s global Belt and Road initiative. Ho, 69, who worked for the controversial energy conglomerate CEFC China Energy, was sentenced by a N ...

French art masterpieces have been renamed after their long overlooked black subjects in a ground-breaking new Paris show on the representation of people of colour in art. Manet's Olympia , the scandalous painting of a naked reclining prostitute that marks the birth of modern art , has been rebaptised Laure after the woman who posed as her bl ...

Three top rebel chiefs have been named special military advisers to the Central African Republic government, the presidency said Monday as the volatile country sought to honour a February peace deal. The three will be charged with setting up special joint units under the peace accord reached in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the eighth since m ...

The Bambao hospital, nestled in a tropical forest on Anjouan island in the Comoros, was meant to bring state-of-the-art medical care to the poor Indian Ocean nation. Just two years later, the hospital is deep in debt and shunned by potential patients who find it too costly. A poisoned chalice , a colossus with feet of clay , a sinkin ...

Police fired teargas and rubber bullets Monday to disperse more than 100 opposition supporters as Comoros awaited the results of elections President Azali Assoumani is tipped to win, AFP correspondents saw. Two people were injured -- a protester and a plainclothes policeman -- when the group began marching towards the capital Moroni 39;s I ...