WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday the establishment of an advisory council on engagement with the African diaspora in the United States, as Washington seeks to deepen ties with the region through a summit this week. Dana Banks, special assistant to the president and special adviser for the U.S.-Africa Leaders …
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(Corrects November to last year in eighth paragraph) By Steve Holland and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden next week will announce U.S. support for the African Union’s admission to the G20 group of the world’s largest economies as a permanent member, a White House official said on Friday. Biden will make the announcement …
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CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea’s ex-military leader Moussa Dadis Camara on Monday denied charges that he was responsible for a 2009 stadium massacre, as he took the stand for the first time in a long-awaited trial. Camara was the ruler of Guinea when more than 150 people were killed during a pro-democracy rally on Sept. 28, …
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By Angus McDowall and Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – For Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, Saturday’s parliamentary election caps the new political structure he built after seizing broad powers last year, but the opposition calls it undemocratic and the main parties will boycott the vote. Unlike the elected parliament that Saied shut down last year in …
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DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal’s economic growth is expected to jump to 10.1% in 2023 compared to 4.8% in 2022, driven by oil and gas production, Prime Minister Amadou Ba said in parliament on Monday. The West African country has discovered offshore oil and gas reserves in recent years with volumes expected to rival some of the …
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By Alistair Smout and Sarah N. Lynch LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish and U.S. law enforcement officials said on Sunday. Abu Agila Mohammad …
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By Alistair Smout and Sarah N. Lynch LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish and U.S. law enforcement officials said on Sunday. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud …
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LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambian police on Sunday found the bodies of 27 men, believed to be migrants from Ethiopia, dumped in a farming area on the outskirts of the capital after they died from suspected hunger and exhaustion, authorities said. A sole survivor was found alive in the early hours of Sunday morning and rushed …
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By Ismail Shakil (Reuters) – A Mauritanian man who received a death penalty in Mali for involvement in attacks that killed dozens including an American in 2015, was extradited to the United States to face a six-count indictment related to the same crime, the Justice Department said on Saturday. Fawaz Ould Ahmed was taken into …
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KIMANA SANCTUARY, Kenya (Reuters) – Hundreds of youths from the Maasai pastoralists in Kenya gathered on Saturday at a wildlife sanctuary to participate in “Maasai Olympics,” a ceremony promoted by conservationists as an alternative rite of passage for young men in the community. The spectacle, in which youthful morans or warriors compete in various games …
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