Tag: regional
Benin offers African diaspora citizenship to mark slavery legacy | REUTERS
Benin’s president has unveiled the ‘My Afro Origins’ program in a bid to raise the country’s profile and herald an initiative that offers Beninese citizenship…
Guinea-Bissau army seizes power, ousts president | REUTERS
Army officers in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau say they seized power, hours after gunfire erupted near the presidential palace and one day before results from a tense…
Dar es Salaam under curfew after Tanzania election protests | REUTERS
Tanzanian police ordered a curfew in Dar es Salaam after violent protests marred an election that President Samia Suluhu Hassan is expected to win following…
African Union urges use of world map showing Africa’s true size | REUTERS
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in…
Death of former Nigerian president Buhari sparks mix of emotions | REUTERS
Nigeria’s late former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a London clinic aged 82, will be buried in his northern home state of Katsina. He…
South African white separatists want Trump’s help to become state | REUTERS
The residents of Orania — a group of white Afrikaners with a population of 3,000 — want US President Donald Trump to help them become…
South Africa’s openly gay imam shot dead in ambush | REUTERS
Muhsin Hendricks, said to be the world’s first openly gay imam and who ran a mosque in Cape Town for marginalized Muslims, was shot dead…
Congo rebels seize airport, president seeks foreign support | REUTERS
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have taken control of the strategic Kavumu airport that serves Bukavu, the region’s second biggest city,…
South African party accuses Afrikaner organization of treason | REUTERS
South Africa’s MK party filed a criminal complaint of treason against a group lobbying for the white Afrikaner minority after Donald Trump cut aid to…
The social experiment of African refugees in outback towns | Australian Story
Could refugees be the solution to saving struggling towns? A year ago the small rural community of Mingoola on the New South Wales-Queensland border was…
