Trapped miners in abandoned South Africa mine ‘starving’ Miners trapped in an abandoned South African mining shaft are experiencing starvation due to limited supplies, which police have restricted in an effort to evacuate the hundreds of people believed to be underground, according to a community leader and a rescued miner. Over the past week, roughly…
Mali wins $160m dispute after detaining British businessman Australian mining company Resolute Mining has agreed to pay $160m (£126m) to Mali’s military government to resolve a tax dispute after the detention of its British CEO and two other employees 10 days ago. Reports indicate that Terry Holohan and his colleagues were taken into custody while…
Mysterious Illness claims dozens of lives in Sudan town The Sudanese Doctors Union announced late on Wednesday that a minimum of 73 people have died from mysterious causes in the Sudanese town of Al-Hilaliya, currently under siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. It is one of dozens of villages in eastern El Gezira state…
South Sudan’s former spy chief, under house arrest, faces gunfire at home Residents reported heavy gunfire erupting late Thursday in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, at the residence of Gen. Akol Koor, the country’s former spy chief, who has been under house arrest for the past two months. Eyewitnesses recounted that soldiers clashed with Gen. Akol…
Northern Group Calls For Sack of Chief of Naval Staff By Ibrahim Imam. The Arewa People’s Assembly (APA) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to relieve the Chief of Naval Staff, CNS Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla of his position. A media release issued on Friday by the coordinator and Director of Orientation and Mobilisation of…
Pastef Party Wins Majority in Senegal’s Parliamentary Election President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s Pastef party secured 130 out of 165 seats in Senegal’s legislative elections, thereby attaining a parliamentary majority. Former Political Opponents Clash Again in Senegal’s Parliamentary Elections This result, coming after Faye’s earlier dissolution of the house, empowers him to drive an ambitious reform…