By Rédaction Africanews The baseball pitch is shared with grazing cows, but the rustic conditions are no distraction for Ugandan major league hopeful Dennis Kasumba. The 18-year-old is off to play in a top-flight amateur baseball league in America this summer, the chance of a lifetime for an orphan raised in a slum who dreams…
By Rédaction Africanews The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan called on Monday for “a new way of working” to tackle war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Armed groups have plagued much of mineral-rich eastern DRC for three decades, a legacy of regional wars that flared in the 1990s and 2000s, and…
By Rédaction Africanews On Tuesday, France and Djibouti launched a review of the defense agreement between Paris and this strategically located country on the Horn of Africa. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu received Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Hassan Omar Mohamed Bourhan, Minister of Defense, in…
By Africanews with AFP President Faustin Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic said Tuesday that he would call a referendum on a new constitution that would allow him to seek a new term. “I have decided… to submit this project for a new constitution to a referendum,” he said in an address to the…
By Rédaction Africanews Some Sudanese people who had fled home due to the fighting that erupted in Khartoum last month, ended up living in a center for the displaced in Wad Madani, some 186 kilometers south of Khartoum. The Shaimaa shelter accommodates families through youth-led initiatives that have spread information online to help people find…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP South Africa’s main opposition party said on Tuesday that it had taken legal action to ensure that Vladimir Putin would be arrested if he set foot in the country, where he is due to attend a summit in August. The Democratic Alliance (DA) is asking the courts for “an order”…
It has become quite fashionable, whenever the African continent is mentioned by development partners, to talk about the African Continental Free Trade Area. This is rightly so: the AfCFTA is potentially game-changing for the continent, and is the world’s largest free trade area by numbers of countries. The AfCFTA now covers a market of 1.2…
ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina says she has no knowledge of alleged attempts to request money from Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to influence her impeachment inquiry. Lindsay Dentlinger | 29 May 2023 CAPE TOWN – African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Pemmy Majodina says she has no knowledge of alleged attempts to request money from Public…
By Africanews After an absence of more than 80 years, South Africa hosted the World Table Tennis Championships that ended this Sunday in Durban. According to the head of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), this event marks an opportunity to raise awareness for the sport and inspire a new generation. “As it was 84…
By Rédaction Africanews and Euronews with AP Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu has been sworn in as president of Africa’s most populous country at a period of unprecedented challenges, leaving some citizens hopeful for a better life and others skeptical that his government would perform better than the one he succeeded. The former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s…
