
Burkina Faso: Hopes fade for trapped miners
It's now been a month since the miners - six Burkinabe, one Zambian and one Tanzanian - were trapped at the bottom of the Perkoa mine, after heavy rains caused a flood

It's now been a month since the miners - six Burkinabe, one Zambian and one Tanzanian - were trapped at the bottom of the Perkoa mine, after heavy rains caused a flood
"Regarding the timetable for the constitutional referendum and the elections, the date set for the constitutional referendum is Sunday, March 29, 2023; for the election of local government councillors - …
Thursday was a bloody day of protests in Sudan. According to the Sudan’s Doctors Committee, a medical group, security forces killed seven people, including a child, during anti-coup demonstrations.
More than 20 Maasai protesters appeared in a Tanzanian court Thursday charged with conspiracy and murder over the death of a policeman at a demonstration that turned violent early June. …
Africa remains the world's least industrialized region. Only South Africa is categorized as industrialized. With the pandemic, a recession, and the war in Ukraine, there is concern that the window …
In January, Angella Okutoyi became the first Kenyan woman to win a Grand slam juniors match and the first Kenyan to reach the third round in singles of any event …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) presented at the Oceans conference in Lisbon Wednesday the latest report on the fisheries sector and outlined a relatively optimistic scinario. Ugandan Margaret …
José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola's former president is reportedly hospitalized in intensive care unit in a Spanish Clinic. Current president Lourenço said Wednesday, Dos Santos's health was worrying.
Pro-democracy activists in Sudan are promising huge demonstrations on Thursday (June 30) to force the army to hand over power to civilians after an October military putsch plunged the country …
Several hundred people are taking part in a "blue march" in Lisbon called by some 60 international and local organisations to demand greater protection for the oceans, on the sidelines …
"As part of the government's achievements, the Ministry of Defence was able to free a hostage of Polish origin, who was kidnapped on the Matiacoali-Kantchari axis on 27 April 2022 …
The T-bin has been installed in the north of Nairobi last year.
A group of clowns resumed in-person performances at a Rio de Janeiro hospital on Wednesday after they were suspended for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mali vowed on Wednesday to defy a United Nations Security Council call for the West African country to allow freedom of movement for peacekeepers to investigate human rights abuses. Mali …
"How can historic houses, dwellings of people living in the heart of the city, be removed in this aggressive and sudden way? While they don't cause any disturbance, in the …
The vehicle had come from neighbouring Chad and reached some 120 kilometres (75 miles) into Libyan territory before breaking down, the statement added.
The opposition in Senegal has postponed its demonstrations against the government, previously banned by the authorities, and announced its participation in the July 31 legislative elections that it had previously …
The Ghanaian police arrested 29 people on Tuesday after dispersing a violent anti-expense protest in Accra with tear gas, according to a new report.
South Africans are experiencing, in the middle of winter, the country’s most drastic outages in over 2 years. The state-owned electricity utility, Eskom, will implement stage 6 of load shedding …
The latest comes as the quarrel over al-Fashaqa, - where the north-west of Ethiopia's Amhara region meets Sudan's breadbasket Gedaref state -which has been settled by Ethiopian farmers for decades, …