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One person has been confirmed dead and five others are receiving treatment after sustaining various degrees of injuries following a protest at a police station in Nkronza in the Bono East region of Ghana, police say. The protesters also freed some six suspects from police cells during the chaos, police said in a statement on Wednesday. The protests on Tuesday followed the killing of a 27-year-old suspect by police during an operation targeting armed robbery suspects in the area. In their version of events leading to the death of Albert Donkor, the police in a statement on Tuesday said, “In…

The sound of tambourine is back in Marrakesh. The high season is coming soon and visitors eager to return to Morocco and its UNESCO-listed old cities’ narrow alleys. Fruit juice sellers, handicraft store-owners, and other workers lost purchasing power during the pandemic. Indeed, the tourism sector was battered by the kingdom’s tight restrictions and the shutdown in travel. Morocco’s air borders reopened on February 7, paving the way for a long road to recovery. “Once the airports opened, business began to pick up and merchants were able to get back to work,Abdellah Bouazri, a handicraft seller says.Every store here can feed…

The West Corniche of Dakar welcomes intriguing pyramids and a huge yellow dog for the much anticipated Biennale of Contemporary African Art. Artists display their work in the public space to “break down the walls” of museums and galleries, an innovation of this 14th editio. AMN/Art/Senegal.

Libyan security forces in the country’s western region said they have detained at least 300 migrants in the last week and 3,000 in the past three months. The arrests come as attempted sea crossings from Libya to Europe are expected to increase in the summer months and as the country faces growing political uncertainty. Colonel Ashraf Issa, commander of the Surman Directorate’s Support Force, a local security body, said his force had arrested 300 in the dawn raids targeting smuggling operations on May 10 in the towns of Surman and Sabratha. He said that at least 3,000 migrants had been…

The Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba is hosting the annual Jewish pilgrimage for the first time after a two-year break. Around 5,000 pilgrims are expected to attend. South of Tunis, the city of Djerba is famous for its traditional blue front doors. The Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island is hosting starting from Wednesday, the annual Jewish pilgrimage. It is a first time after a two-year hiatus. Local Jews and pilgrims of Tunisian Jewish descent living in France or Spain will gather in the synanague. “When you’re here, you feel seized by an extraordinary emotion, you feel…

Minister of Finance, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta has commend African Development Bank  for its massive contributions in Ghana’s development as he addressed journalists at a press conference to launch the institution’s annual meetings on Thursday. Ofori-Atta described the meetings as seminal, in the context of a world seeking to re-balance in the wake of Covid-19 and the Russian-Ukraine invasion. “The hosting is long overdue. Forty-one African economies are severely exposed to at least three concurrent crises – rising food prices, rising energy prices and tightening financial conditions – what finance ministers now call the dreaded three F’s,” Ofori-Atta said. Throughout Africa…

South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. The new increase in COVID cases is coming as the country enters the Southern Hemisphere’s colder winter months, along with a rise in cases of flu. At a COVID testing centre in the Chiawelo area of Soweto, many people come in to be tested for COVID, but find out they have flu. Kenneth Malekabane says he started feeling ill at work and was asked to get tested by his employer. “I am relieved right now because my test results have come…

Stitching together discarded mobile phone keyboards to make art, Ivorian artist Mounou Desire Koffi hopes to raise awareness about pollution. “I wanted to contribute something new,” said the artist, whose work is on display in Abidjan until July. In his studio in Bingerville, near the Ivorian business capital, the 28-year-old describes himself as “young contemporary artist” who wants to stand out from the crowd. “I’ve been passionate about drawing since childhood. It was always me the teacher would send to the blackboard to illustrate lessons,” he says. When he decided he wanted to go to art school, his parents, who…

Somalia MPs are due to vote to choose the horn of African nation’s president, ending the convoluted electoral process that raised tensions in the country when the president’s term expired last year without a successor in place. There are 39 registered presidential candidates, a list that includes incumbent Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, two former presidents, a former prime minister, several top officials and even a journalist. The field includes one woman, Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam, a lawmaker who once served as Somalia’s foreign minister. The vote takes place amid heightened insecurity as the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which opposes the federal…

A curfew has been declared in Nigeria’s northwestern city of Sokoto to quell protests demanding the release of suspects in the killing of a christian school student Deborah Samuel. It comes as hundreds of people in the northwestern city of Sokoto demonstrated Saturday over the arrest of two students following the murder of a Christian student accused of blasphemy, residents said. Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal said in a statement on Saturday that the curfew applies to the state capital, Sokoto city. “Everyone should, please, in the interest of peace go back home,” Governor Tambuwal said. Africa’s most populous country is…