La Baraque, Mauritius | AFP | Far out into the Indian Ocean where it is forced to be self-reliant, the island nation of Mauritius is weaning itself off fossil fuels by turning to its main cash-crop sugar cane, for electricity. The leftover, crushed sugar cane stalks and tips — dry …

Lagos, Nigeria | JAMES MURUA | Prof Tanure Ojaide and Harriet Anena are the joint winners of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature 2018. The announcement was made at a ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, December 9, 2018. The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature, worth Sh37million ($10,000), is awarded …

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Manchester City — Premier League champions-elect in the eyes of many — now know they are in a real scrap after Liverpool leapfrogged them to the top of the table on a telling day in the title race. Both sides started Saturday unbeaten after …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector General of Government (IGG), Justice Irene Mulyagonja, is seeking the intervention of President Museveni to increase funding to the institution. Justice Mulyagonja attributed delays to investigate corruption cases to staff shortage and limited funding. Addressing journalists on Friday, she observed that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Irene Mulyagonja, the Inspector General of Government – IGG has observed that the on-going probe on Bank of Uganda – BoU is a result of poor governance practices. Mulyagonja says that failure to enforce good governance practices enabled corrupt officials at Central Bank …

Bukavu, DR Congo | AFP | A rapper critical of President Joseph Kabila was abducted in the eastern DR Congo overnight, his father said Sunday amid rising tensions two weeks ahead of landmark elections. Akim Bufole Corneille, 26, was taken by unidentified kidnappers as he left a party in Bukavu, …

Oslo, Norway | AFP | Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege may have won his Nobel prize for his work to end sexual violence in war, but the crusading surgeon said the groundwork for equality must be laid in peacetime, as he praised movements like #MeToo. Mukwege, whose work has made him …

Madrid, Spain | AFP | River Plate won the Copa Libertadores by beating their fiercest rivals Boca Juniors 3-1 after extra time on Sunday, bringing an end to a final tainted by violence and moved more than six thousand miles away from Argentina. Boca took the lead through Dario Benedetto …

  Bukavu, DR Congo | AFP | Lucie was just seven years old when the men took her. She was found the next day, naked and bleeding, on the edge of the vast forested hills of Kahuzi Biega Park, in violence-plagued eastern DR Congo. “The militants entered the family home …

Tervuren, Belgium | AFP | Belgium’s Africa Museum reopened on Saturday after a five-year restoration to repackage its looted treasures with a critical view of the country’s brutal colonial past. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo hailed a “historic moment” and said it would open “a new chapter” in Belgian-African …