Niger coup sparks urgent global call to end neocolonial exploitation in Africa, solidarity for justice needed

Shipments to some of the poorest nations on the continent will be ready within months, the Russian president has said

Some 49 African countries will be represented at the two-day event

The Russian leader has no doubt that Africa will “free itself from the bitter legacy of colonialism”

The tour aims to strengthen military ties between Moscow and Djibouti

Anti-French sentiment runs high in some former African colonies as the continent becomes a renewed diplomatic battleground, with Russian and Chinese influence growing in the region.

The presidents of Uganda and South Africa met in Pretoria to strengthen economic ties

"Few murders involving hitmen end up in court and when they do hitmen are often killed," Mary de Haas, an academic focusing on political violence in Durban's KwaZulu-Natal province, told AFP.

In the afflicted areas, inhabitants -- who eke out a living mainly from herding and subsistence farming -- are experiencing their fifth consecutive poor rainy season since the end of 2020.

Defence Minister Florence Parly said Sahrawi died following a strike by France's Barkhane force, which battles jihadists in the Sahel. Sahrawi in 2015 formed the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), which is blamed for most of the jihadist attacks in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.

Chinese experts had previously travelled to Egypt to inspect equipment and materials for producing the Sinovac vaccine at factories belonging to state firm Vacsera.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday announced that his country would soon establish its resident diplomatic mission in Djibouti. He made the announcement during...