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Senegalese scientists monitor climate change effect on the ocean
As world leaders criticise the United States for pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, scientists are trying to work out exactly what a warmer world will mean. That includes researchers in Senegal, who are making precise measurements of the ocean to try to predict how it will change. And…
Read More »Lesotho probes soldiers’ presence near polling stations
Election officials in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho said on Sunday they were investigating why armed soldiers were deployed at many polling stations in Saturday’s election. The army has often been accused of interfering in politics in Lesotho, a landlocked African country of two million people that has been hit…
Read More »Authorities stifle women’s protest in Morocco’s Rif
Moroccan authorities stifled a women’s protest in the coastal city of Al-Hoceima, campaigning for access to jobs, health services and infrastructure in the northern Rif region. Police encircled hundreds of female protesters in a public park late on Saturday, impeding others from joining, as the women chanted “freedom, dignity and social…
Read More »Making sense of recent protests in Morocco
The recent protests in the Rif region in Morocco were actually ignited back in October 2016, after the gruesome death of a fishmonger named Mouhcine Fikri. The event very much resembled the death of fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, which triggered the Tunisian uprisings leading to the Arab Spring…
Read More »Lesotho votes in third election in five years
About one million people in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho are voting for a new government. This is a result of the parliament holding a vote of no confidence against the prime minister in March. It is the country’s third election in five years. Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports…
Read More »Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe attempts to woo young voters
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president, has embarked on a ten-province speaking tour ahead of next year’s election. He is likely to target young people, who comprise half of the electorate and are hardest hit by unemployment. Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Marondera. The post Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe attempts to woo…
Read More »Lesotho: Voting under way in third election since 2012
Voters in the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho are going to polls to elect a new government, in the third general election since 2012. Saturday’s poll is seen as a two-horse race between old rivals Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and Thomas Thabane, who ruled from 2012 to 2015. The winner…
Read More »World’s most neglected conflict rages on in the CAR
Last month, I sat down with Monica, a 30-year-old polio survivor in Bambari, a war-torn town in the Central African Republic. She was living in a displacement camp after intense fighting forced her to flee the town of Bakala, 110 kilometres away. “I went into the house to hide,” she…
Read More »IDPs need as much attention as refugees, says IDMC
More than 31 million people were internally displaced due to conflict and disasters in 2016, but the issue has been overshadowed by the focus on refugees and migrants, according to a report by a monitoring group. The Global Report on Internal Displacement by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of…
Read More »Thousands rally across Morocco’s Rif for eighth night
Thousands of people have taken the streets across Morocco’s northern Rif region for an eighth night demanding the release of a prominent protest movement leader. Nasser Zefzafi, the head of the grass-roots Al-Hirak al-Shaabi, or Popular Movement, was taken into custody on Monday and transferred to Casablanca. Thousands rallied in the port city of…
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Africa Unveils Landmark Integrity & Equity Principles and Coordination Platform to Strengthen Carbon Markets
NAIROBI, Kenya, 31 July 2025-/African Media Agency (AMA)/-The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) today …
