DAKAR – Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko yesterday called for vengeance following what he described as attacks against supporters of his Pastef party by the opposition during the campaign for Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Sonko, who has been head of the government since it took office in April, spoke of clashes in the capital Dakar, the...
LAGOS – During his first term as US president, Donald Trump sparked outrage over his remarks about African nations, but African leaders have been quick to congratulate him on his re-election. They are calling for cooperation with mutual respect. Veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga, for one, has shrugged off Trump’s comments, made at a private...
African leaders descended on Gaborone last Friday to witness with excitement as advocate Duma Gideon Boko took over the reigns as Botswana’s sixth president, ending the leadership grip by the Botswana Democratic Party after 58 years. President Nangolo Mbumba and official opposition leader McHenry Venaani wereamong the attendees. The lawyer from the Umbrella for Democratic...
GAZA STRIP – Gaza’s civil defence agency yersterday said 30 people, including 13 children, were killed in Israeli strikes on two houses in the north of the Palestinian territory. The first strike early yesterday hit a house in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killing “at least 25” people, including 13 children, and injuring more than 30, civil...
MOSCOW – Russia downed 34 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow yesterday, the defence ministry said, in the largest attack on the capital since Russia began its offensive in Ukraine in 2022. The attack, which forced the temporary closure of three Moscow airports, injured a 52-year-old woman and set two homes on fire in the village of...
BAMAKO – Three expatriate executives from Australian company Resolute Mining, which owns a gold mine in Mali, have been detained for questioning, industry and judiciary sources told AFP on Saturday. It is the second time in just over a month that employees of a foreign mining firm have been detained in Mali, as the ruling...
SOCHI – Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday promised Moscow’s total support for Africa, at a conference with African officials in Sochi in southwest Russia.“Our country will continue to provide total support to our African friends in different sectors,” Putin said in a speech read by foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to other foreign ministers and senior...
Sabine Kinkartz Representatives of the three parties making up Germany’s centre-left government — the Social Democrats (SPD), neo-liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and Greens — met for a crisis meeting on Wednesday evening. It lasted only two hours. The coalition partners no longer had much to say to each other. Finance minister Christian Lindner (FDP) proposed...
JERUSALEM – The Israeli military yesterday called for the evacuation of the Baalbek area in eastern Lebanon, warning that it was ready to strike Hezbollah targets there and in nearby Douris. The latest evacuation call came as the military’s Home Front Command activated sirens at regular intervals along the border as dozens of projectiles were...
JOHANNESBURG – South African police yesterday said 225 illegal miners had been arrested after being forced out of an abandoned mine shaft due to a lack of food and water. The miners, known locally as “zama zamas” (“those who try” in Zulu), resurfaced from a mine in Orkney, a gold mining town in the Klerksdorp...