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Western Africa Magazine Volume 1 - Issue 3 & 4 New Edition

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Has South Africa's 'get-out-of-jail' vote lived up to the hype?
Posted on Friday April 26, 2024

Thirty years after Nelson Mandela's election and apartheid's end, South Africans reflect on democracy.

Burkina Faso suspends BBC over HRW massacre report
Posted on Friday April 26, 2024

BBC websites and radio are blocked for two weeks over a Human Rights Watch report on alleged mass killings.

Ballet dancers and yawning lions: Africa's top shots
Posted on Friday April 26, 2024

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

Mbeki vows to rid South Africa's ANC of 'rotten apples'
Posted on Friday April 26, 2024

South Africa's former president hits out at corruption within the governing party.

Did UK minister confuse Rwanda and Congo?
Posted on Friday April 26, 2024

The policing minister appeared to ask an audience member if Rwanda and Congo were different countries.

Two East Africans charged in UK migrant deaths investigation
Posted on Friday April 26, 2024

Five migrants, including a child, were killed in a crush on board a boat crossing the Channel.

Zuma scores court hat-trick over South Africa election
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

How the country's former president is thwarting attempts to bar him from contesting the polls.

Hope Hostel in Rwanda says it's ready for first migrants from UK
Posted on Monday April 22, 2024

Rwanda is gearing up to welcome deported asylum seekers now the landmark UK bill has passed.

The London landmark getting a Ghanaian makeover
Posted on Saturday April 20, 2024

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama gives a well-loved London landmark a bold pink makeover.

The mega-pastor pushing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories
Posted on Thursday April 18, 2024

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is targeting the new malaria vaccines as African countries start their rollout.

Hundreds of thousands grapple with East Africa floods
Posted on Thursday April 25, 2024

East Africa is being pounded by unusually heavy rains linked to a combination of global weather events.

Sudan War: 'Tell me how to make it stop'
Posted on Monday April 15, 2024

Slam poet Emi Mahmoud wants the world not to forget Sudan, one year into its civil war.

Watch: Bus passengers rescued from flood waters
Posted on Tuesday April 09, 2024

The bus was travelling to Nairobi when it was swept off the road.

Watch: Moment Russ Cook finishes length of Africa run
Posted on Sunday April 07, 2024

Russ Cook, nicknamed "Hardest Geezer", has finished his challenge of running the length of Africa.

'My first time home 30 years after I fled a genocide'
Posted on Friday April 05, 2024

The BBC's Victoria Uwonkunda speaks to survivors of the Rwanda genocide violence 30 years after she fled.

Posted on Thursday January 01, 1970

News24 | DRC withdraws former president Kabila's govt security and support staff
Posted on Friday April 26, 2024

The Democratic Republic of Congo government has recalled all civil servants working for former president Joseph Kabila, effectively stripping him of state security and supporting staff.

News24 | Don't try to force a trophy hunting ban on Africa, says UK conservationist backed by Prince William
Posted on Friday April 26, 2024

The UK is close to banning the import of wildlife trophies. A campaigner for wildlife conservation with royal support says it should let African countries decide for themselves.

News24 | Burkina Faso army executed over 220 villagers in February, Human Rights Watch says
Posted on Thursday April 25, 2024

Burkina Faso's military in February summarily executed about 223 villagers, including at least 56 children, as part of a campaign against civilians accused of collaborating with jihadist militants, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

News24 | Benin, Liberia, and Sierra Leone also roll out malaria vaccine
Posted on Thursday April 25, 2024

Three more African countries have joined a rollout of malaria vaccines targeting millions of children in a continent that accounts for 95 percent of malaria deaths, the UN said Thursday.

News24 | Tanzania denies rights abuse after World Bank suspends funds to R2.9 billion tourism project
Posted on Thursday April 25, 2024

Tanzania on Thursday dismissed as "unfounded" allegations of killings, reape rights abuses and the planned evictions of over 20 000 people that led the World Bank to suspend funding for a $150 million conservation project.

News24 | US negotiates for 'orderly and responsible withdrawal' of troops from Niger, as Russia moves in
Posted on Thursday April 25, 2024

The US and France maintained bases in Niger in order to combat jihadist organisations in the region.

News24 | 118 inmates escape after rain damages Nigerian prison
Posted on Thursday April 25, 2024

At least 118 inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Sujela near the Nigerian capital, a prison service spokesperson said.

News24 | The DRC had the world's biggest military spend increase last year – and South Sudan was second
Posted on Wednesday April 24, 2024

Two of Africa's hotspots had massive increases in their military budgets in 2023, new numbers show.

News24 | World Bank suspends R2.9 billion Tanzania tourism project over human rights abuses allegations
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

The World Bank said on Tuesday it has suspended funding for a tourism and conservation project in Tanzania following allegations of human rights abuses.

News24 | Rwanda says it is peaceful and ready to receive the UK's deported asylum seekers
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

The Rwandan government says it is safe and ready to receive deportees from Britain, and the passage of the fraught Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill is testament to that.

News24 | Angola hikes diesel price by 48% – to R4.60 per litre
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

Angola's petroleum products regulator hiked diesel prices by about 48% from Tuesday, part of government efforts to curb costly subsidies that have strained public finances.

News24 | DRC government moves to regulate breeding, ownership of boerboels and pit bulls
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

Facing a "worrying proliferation" of attack dogs, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has called for government control over the ownership of certain breeds, including pit bulls and boerboels.

News24 | More than 50 000 displaced by clashes in northern Ethiopia, UN says
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

More than 50 000 people have been displaced by clashes in a disputed area in northern Ethiopia, the United Nations said, as the international community expressed concern about the violence involving fighters from rival regions.

News24 | New Namibia find may hold 10 billion barrels of oil, report finds
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

Galp Energia's shares jumped after the Portuguese oil company said a well test “potentially” indicates Mopane could be an important commercial find in Namibia.

News24 | Zimbabwe’s ZiG wipes out 330% stocks rally
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

Zimbabwe’s new currency has wiped out a more than 330% gain on the stock market this year, leaving investors dealing with the fallout.

News24 | England-Rwanda migrant plan passes after marathon UK parliament session
Posted on Tuesday April 23, 2024

Controversial UK government plans for deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda cleared their final hurdle on Monday, after a marathon tussle between the upper and lower chambers of parliament lasting late into the night.

News24 | Flights booked, first Rwanda deportations within 12 weeks, Sunak vows
Posted on Monday April 22, 2024

LONDON, April 22 - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday the first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda would leave in 10-12 weeks, as he set out plans for for his flagship policy to tackle illegal migration.

News24 | 'Pack your bags': Hundreds in Niger tell US troops to go home
Posted on Sunday April 21, 2024

Hundreds protested on Sunday against the US troop presence in military-ruled Niger where a delegation from Washington is expected within days to arrange an orderly withdrawal.

News24 | UK returns looted Ghana artefacts on loan after 150 years
Posted on Saturday April 20, 2024

The objects were stolen from the court of the Asante king during the 19th century Anglo-Asante wars.

News24 | Kenya's military chief among 10 people killed in helicopter crash
Posted on Thursday April 18, 2024

Kenya's military chief, General Francis Ogolla, was among 10 people killed when their military helicopter crashed shortly after take-off on Thursday, President William Ruto announced.

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