AFRICA

  Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | Zimbabwe ex-president Robert Mugabe’s family and the government squabbled over his burial on Thursday, with the place — and even its date — still unclear after relatives snubbed a plan for him to be entombed at a national monument. Mugabe died in Singapore last week …

Sudan, S.Sudan leaders vow to seek peace in their troubled nations Juba, South Sudan | AFP | War is “no longer an option” for Sudan and South Sudan, their leaders agreed Thursday during talks which focused on border disputes and the oil trade, but also resolving protracted conflicts in both …

Cotonou, Benin | AFP |  The people watched in horror as the bulldozers moved in. Soon their meagre dwellings were reduced to rubble, becoming homes only to stray dogs that nosed through their belongings. The demolition of Xwlacodji, a district in Benin’s economic capital Cotonou, was carried out in the name …

Tunis, Tunisia | AFP |  Despite priding itself on being the sole country to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings as a functioning democracy, Tunisia faces challenges on its new political path. The cradle of the autocrat-ousting movements that swept the region nine years ago, the North African country has been …

Mongoumba, Central African Republic | AFP | Under the tarpaulin shading the back of the lorry, the heat is still stifling on a rough road for some 30 refugees travelling home to the strife-weary Central African Republic. Potholes rattle spines and send up fine grit that sticks to the sweaty bodies …

Harare, Zimbabwe | AFP | The body of Zimbabwe’s ex-president, Robert Mugabe, was flown out of Singapore Wednesday, heading home for burial in a country divided over the legacy of a former liberation hero whose 37-year rule was marked by repression and economic ruin. Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who swept to …

Japan, S.A and AFDB unveil priorities in technology at TICAD 7 Science, technology and innovation as well as human resource development are critical in Africa, a continent, which has the biggest potential on earth, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum held on …

Yaoundé, Cameroon | AFP |  Cameroon President Paul Biya on Tuesday announced that he intends to hold a major “national dialogue” later this month in a bid to put an end to the conflict between security forces and armed separatists from the anglophone minority in the west. Over the past two …

Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Beverlyn Nyamakwenje was fast asleep in her home in the east Johannesburg township of Katlehong when she was woken by gunshots. Instructed by her panicked father, the 19-year old Zimbabwean grabbed a few belongings and fled with him to a police station for safety. “We …

Rabat, Morocco | AFP | The trial of a Moroccan journalist accused of having a late-term abortion and sexual relations outside marriage was postponed on Monday after hundreds of people protested outside a court in the capital Rabat. The case brought against Hajar Raissouni, who writes for the Arabic-language newspaper Akhbar …