Category: Africa

Source: africanews  Senegal will head to the polls Sunday to vote in a tightly contested presidential race that has fired up political tensions and tested

Source: africanews A special investigations unit in South Africa searched the home of the Speaker of Parliament for more than five hours Tuesday and seized

Source: BBC Three Egyptian Coptic monk have been “brutally killed” inside a monastery in South Africa, the Church has said. Father Takla Moussa, Father Minah

Source: BBC  Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso say they will form a joint force to fight jihadist threats in their countries. Niger’s army chief Moussa

Source: africanews  Senegal on Wednesday announced that a delayed presidential election will be held on March 24, after a top court ruled that a proposal

Source: BBC  Senegal’s President, Macky Sall has proposed an amnesty for those convicted in connection with political protests in the past three years.  He said

Source: africanews Algeria inaugurated a gigantic mosque on its Mediterranean coastline Sunday after years of political upheaval transformed the project from a symbol of state-sponsored

Source: BBC  A French journalist has been detained in Ethiopia while visiting the country for a recent African Union summit, his employer said Monday. Antoine

Source: BBC  At least 15 people have been killed and two others injured following an attack on a Catholic church in north-eastern Burkina Faso on