Wally Faye hoped his life would take off when Senegal’s youngest president swept to power promising radical change, but a year on, the 29-year-old still has no job and is unable to help his parents or get married.Unemployed since 2019 despite having a master’s in geography, Faye was among the many young Senegalese who voted …
Machines stand inert at a unit of construction firm CSE in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, due to plummeting orders and unpaid government bills that have almost halved its workforce.A year after the west African country’s new president took power promising economic and political sovereignty and sweeping reforms, his ambitious pledges have not helped the sector.A worker …
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Hectares upon hectares of luxuriant orchards cover the land from which Bernard Shabangu’s ancestors were once brutally evicted by South Africa’s apartheid government.Thousands of families lived on these green hills near the Kruger National Park, 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of Johannesburg, until the early 1900s when colonial and subsequent apartheid regimes eroded the rights …
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces vowed on Thursday there would be “no retreat and no surrender” after rival troops of the regular army retook nearly all of central Khartoum.From inside the recaptured presidential palace, Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at war with his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo since April 2023, had …
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Six Russian tourists, including two minors, died on Thursday when a submarine carrying dozens of passengers sank off a major resort town on Egypt’s Red Sea coast.The governor of Egypt’s Red Sea region, Amr Hanafi, said “39 foreign tourists had been rescued and six others killed, with no one missing,” according to a statement shared …
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Mohammed Hussein Mohammedie was just 19 when he left Iraq and attempted the perilous English Channel crossing in November 2021. He died alongside 26 others when their dinghy sank.His family were refugees from Iran and suffered financial hardship, his father told a UK inquiry into the capsizing of the dinghy in the early hours of November …
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A fragile peace deal in South Sudan was collapsing on Thursday after the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, long-time rival to President Salva Kiir, threatened to throw the country back into war. A convoy of 20 heavily armed vehicles entered Machar’s residence in the capital Juba late on Wednesday and arrested him, according to …
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Somalia’s Al-Shabaab jihadist militia shows signs of resurgence after making gains in strategic regions and coming close to assassinating the president with a roadside bomb last week. The Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group was on the defensive in 2022 and 2023 after a concerted military push by the government and its international partners.But analysts say those gains are …
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Under the cover of darkness, the jihadists moved into Wulgo, where the shores of Lake Chad meet the arid countryside of northern Nigeria.Around 1:00 am, a “barrage” of rocket-propelled grenades was fired, sending Cameroonian troops, stationed there as part of an anti-jihadist coalition, into “disarray”, a security source told AFP.While the militants had disguised themselves …
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Displaced Sudanese danced through the night in Port Sudan, celebrating a string of army advances in Khartoum and hoping they will soon return home.”The joy has spread everywhere,” said Khartoum native Motaz Essam as crowds swayed to music blaring from makeshift sound systems.”God willing, we’re going home, we’ll finally celebrate Eid in our own homes,” …
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