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African Development Bank embraces ‘risky’ entrepreneurs : Young fishers in Senegal increase their incomes threefold and turn their backs on illegal immigration Launched in 2020, the Project to Support and Enhance the Entrepreneurial…

Zimbabwe's opposition party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has called for fresh elections after declaring that last week's general election was fraudulent. Deputy CCC spokesperson, Ostallos Siziba, told journalists that his…

France's ambassador has remained in Niger despite being given a 48-hour deadline to leave the country last Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed in a defiant speech. Ambassador Sylvain Itte had been ordered to go amid…

Uganda’s new anti-gay legislation is persecuting the LGBTQI community according to human rights lawyers. Since the new law was enacted in May, they say they’ve become a target for violence and left homeless because landlords are too…

Fighters from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab have retaken at least two locations that had just been captured by Somalia's army during a new offensive. There are reports of both sides suffering significant losses during a fierce…

South Africa, Russia and China have congratulated Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa following his controversial election win over the weekend. Meanwhile, the US added its voice to growing criticism of last week's general election…

Officials in Sudan say armed forces chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has left the country on a flight to Egypt to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. It is the first time Sudan's military ruler has left the country since the conflict…

Celebrations rocked Zimbabwe mainly by the supporters of the ZANU-PF party after the declaration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner of the just concluded election. Mnangagwa, 80, won 52.6 percent of the ballots against 44…

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Niamey Saturday in support of last month's coup, a day after the country's new military rulers gave France's ambassador to Niger 48 hours to leave the country. The Seyni Kountche stadium, the…

Gabon's government announced a nationwide curfew and cut off internet access Saturday evening as voting in major national elections was wrapping up. The Central African nation's communications minister, Rodrigue Mboumba Bissawou, said on…