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Juba, South Sudan – By 10am, the unforgiving morning sun begins to beat down on the dusty streets and mud huts of Hai Gabat, a neighbourhood in the east of Juba, South Sudan‘s capital. Sam, a 45-year-old water seller from Uganda, has been up for four hours. He is busy securing…

A schoolgirl believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram three years ago has been rescued by government troops while “escaping from captivity”, Nigerian officials said on Wednesday.  Femi Adesina, a presidential spokesman, said the girl was found less than two weeks after 82 others were released by their abductors in…

Mali will keep fighting “terrorist groups” in the country until they engage in serious peace talks, the country’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has said. Despite continued French troop deployments, a UN peacekeeping mission comprising 11,000 soldiers and years of peace talks, Mali remains beset by political unrest and ethnic strife.…

– Plus de 600 leaders de l’industrie rejoignent AFC pour le plus grand sommet d’infrastructure du continent –   – Les principaux intervenants, notamment HE Yemi Osinbajo, président intérimaire du Nigéria, ont souligné le besoin d’initiatives menées par l’Afrique pour resserrer l’écart en termes d’infrastructure –   – Africa Finance…

Eyeing Africa for its next phase of growth – targeting local startups and global brands to scale its business Ted Nelson, Chief Commercial Officer at Truecaller LAGOS, Nigeria, 17 May 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Truecaller, one of the leading communication platforms in the world, today announced that it will start…

Red Cross on Wednesday said its workers had found 115 bodies in the Central African Republic‘s (CAR) border town of Bangassou after several days of militia attacks, raising by more than four times a previously reported death toll. Antoine Mbao Bogo, the president of the aid group’s local branch, told the…

Supporters of a jailed Christian sect leader on Wednesday attacked the prison holding him in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) capital, Kinshasa, freeing him and about 50 other inmates, according to officials. Ne Muanda Nsemi – a self-styled prophet and leader of the Bundu dia Kongo movement – was…

As many as 100 people were killed last week in militia violence in southern Central African Republic, the United Nations has said, expressing “grave alarm” over the spread of fighting fuelled by ethnic and religious rivalries. Among the victims were six UN peacekeepers, marking the deadliest month for the UN…