Ivory’s former Prime Minister Guillaume Soro announced on Sunday evening that he would put an end to exile which began in 2019. Guillaume Soro led the rebellion that controlled the northern half of the country in the 2000s, had militarily supported Alassane Ouattara’s rise to power during the post-electoral crisis of 2010-2011, when the incumbent […]
As ethnic violence escalates and a humanitarian crisis worsens in Sudan, a top UN aid official warns that violence against civilians is ‘verging on pure evil’. A war erupted on April 15 between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after weeks of rising tension between the two sides over a plan to […]
A report by LN24 SA’s Lindokuhle Mabaso.
US Senator Chris Coons has proposed a draft bill that would require an immediate “out-of-cycle” review of South Africa’s eligibility for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). A member of the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, Coons late Monday released – for discussion – the AGOA Renewal Bill of 2023 in which he proposes […]
Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu will, this week, depart Abuja for Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to attend the Saudi-Africa summit and the Arab African summit both scheduled to hold over the weekend. According to reports Tinubu’s appearance at the summits marks fresh moves to engage Arab nations to attract businesses and […]
Rwanda announced on Thursday that it will allow Africans to travel visa-free to the country, becoming the latest nation on the continent to announce such a measure aimed at boosting free movement of people and trade to rival Europe’s Schengen zone. President Paul Kagame made the announcement in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, where he pitched […]