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Algeria moves against dissident youth association and political party

23 Feb 2023

TUNIS (Reuters) – An Algerian judicial council has ordered the dissolution of a youth association linked to a protest movement and suspended a leftist opposition party, the council said on Thursday. The Council of State gave no reason for its decision to dissolve Rassemblement Actions Jeunesse Algerienne, which had already been barred from activity, or …

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Burkina Faso buries exhumed remains of murdered ex-leader Sankara

23 Feb 2023

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – The exhumed remains of Burkina Faso’s beloved ex-president Thomas Sankara, whose 1987 murder shocked the West African nation, were laid to rest at a ceremony in the capital Ouagadougou on Thursday. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary, known as “Africa’s Che Guevara”, was gunned down along with 12 others during a …

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Mozambique braces for floods as storm Freddy nears landfall

23 Feb 2023

MAPUTO (Reuters) – Mozambican authorities on Thursday were bracing for tropical storm Freddy, which is expected to make landfall in the southern African country on Friday after killing at least four people in Madagascar. Freddy made landfall in southeastern Madagascar on Tuesday as a tropical cyclone, packing gusts of up to 180 kph (110 mph), …

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U.S. President Biden calls for peaceful, transparent Nigerian election

23 Feb 2023

(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden called on Thursday for Nigeria’s presidential election on Saturday to be peaceful and transparent, urging candidates and parties to accept the results as announced by the country’s electoral commission. (Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Alexander Winning)

Tunisia detains more dissidents amid growing crackdown

22 Feb 2023

TUNIS (Reuters) -Tunisian police detained two prominent dissidents and surrounded the home of a third on Wednesday, part of an escalating crackdown on critics of President Kais Saied, who has labelled his opponents traitors and criminals. The arrests, along with others this month, have targeted some of Saied’s most important critics along with other politicians, …

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Benin entrepreneur transforms plant waste into charcoal

22 Feb 2023

By Pulcherie Adjoha and Seraphin Zounyekpe ECO SIKA, Benin (Reuters) – Maize husks, cassava peelings, coconut shells and other organic waste are the untraditional raw materials of Roland Adjovi’s charcoal business that he hopes will help slow the destruction of Benin’s trees for cooking fuel. Dismayed at the endless convoys of trucks carrying piles of …

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Death toll from cyclone Freddy in Madagascar rises to 4 – govt

22 Feb 2023

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – The death toll in Madagascar from tropical cyclone Freddy has risen to four, the government said on Wednesday, as the storm moved west across the island nation toward mainland Africa. Freddy made landfall in southeastern Madagascar late on Tuesday with gusts of up to 180 km per hour (110 miles per hour), …

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