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The Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, which have been fighting for control of the country for four days, agreed on a 24-hour ceasefire on Tuesday, according to Arab media. Hope for a pause in the violence emerged as escalating fighting threatened to drag the country into a spiral of chaos. Millions of Sudanese, in the capital and other major cities, took refuge in their homes, caught in the crossfire as the two forces bombarded residential areas with artillery fire and airstrikes and engaged in firefights in the street. Over the past day, fighters from Khartoum have attacked a…

Loud country music came through the speakers as cowboys entered the arena to kickstart this year’s Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo in Lethem Guyana. Since the mid-eighties, the Rupununi Ranchers’ Rodeo ground in the country’s southwest has hosted one of the nation’s main cowboys fest. Thousands of visitors travelled from the capital and abroad to attend the annual-event held over the weekend (Apr. 08-09). For 22-year old Shinier Smartt, who travel with friends, it was a first. “I came up here a couple of days ago. We travelled up with a truck it was just the dust (that bothered a little) but…

The United States is preparing long-term assistance for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin and Togo, threatened by an extension of jihadist violence from the Sahel to coastal regions of West Africa, officials of state security said. These officials claimed that Western support was also crucial to prevent the progression in the Sahel countries of mercenaries from the Russian private security company Wagner , deployed in particular in Mali – although the colonels in power in Bamako present them as ” military instructors. US Vice President Kamala Harris , visiting Ghana in March as part of growing US efforts in Africa , pledged…

One young man has dyed yellow hair and a nose ring, another looks hard, another holds his son: they are among the group of men who agreed to pose with a flower for Cuban photographer Moník Molinet, who is trying to break down stereotypes. A series of portraits of men who agreed to pose with a bougainvillea or a geranium in their left ear make up the exhibition “Masculinities”, which opened at Havana’s Fábrica de Arte. “Avoiding stereotypes, it occurred to me to see how I could try to show men who were told from outside hegemonic masculinity,” Molinet, 33,…

Kenya’s President, William Ruto, announced that the country will not acquire loans to pay civil servants, even as union groups threatened to go on strike due to unpaid March salaries. According to Ruto, the salary delays are due to the country’s substantial public debt, with some loans becoming due this month. He emphasized that taxes collected by the revenue authority would be utilized to pay the salaries. However, at least two worker umbrella bodies have warned of a strike this week if the salaries are not paid. Kenya’s chief economic adviser, speaking to the local media, assured that the salaries…

A Tunisian fourth-division football club has suspended its activities after 30 of its players emigrated illegally to Europe, its president said on Tuesday. The club’s president, Jamil Meftahi, told AFP that no fewer than 32 players have emigrated illegally to Europe over the past three years. “We stopped the activity and suspended the matches 20 days ago,” he added. The official blamed the exodus on “a lack of financial resources” for the club and the players. “We can’t buy equipment, jerseys and sports shoes” and the players “don’t get financial subsidies”. According to him, most of the players, aged between…

Like elsewhere in the world, Moslems in Somalia are celebrating the holy month of Ramadan. As the sun sets, families gather together to break their fast with generous dinners and special treats. But faced with the country’s longest drought, many people are struggling to make ends meet. Five consecutive failed rainy seasons has withered local crops and millions of livestock that are central to people’s diets have died. “When there is drought in Somalia it is more likely that the farmers will produce less. That is one of the main factors for the soaring price of food and other basic commodities,”…

In Nigeria, the out going government of President Buhari recommended that the new administration of President-elect Bola Tinubu give civil servants pay rises. Behind the announcement is the long-delayed removal of a fuel subsidy planned for last year. Many Nigerians regard subsidized fuel as one of the few benefits provided by the government which fails to deliver in terms of power and security despite receiving billions of dollars every year from oil exports. The call from the out going president piles pressure on the new president-elect to deliver on what was a campaign promise. AMN | Reporters | Politics.

The African continent currently holds investable wealth worth USD 2.4 trillion, and according to the recently published 2023 Africa Wealth Report by Henley & Partners in collaboration with New World Wealth, the population of millionaires is expected to increase by 42% over the next 10 years. The report indicates that Africa’s ‘Big 5’ wealth markets, namely South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, and Morocco, together make up 56% of the continent’s high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) and over 90% of its billionaires. As of now, the continent is home to 138,000 HNWIs with a wealth of USD 1 million or more, along with 328 centi-millionaires…

A Danish tanker flying the Liberian flag was attacked by pirates off Congo-Brazzaville in the Gulf of Guinea and contact was lost for three days with the crew of 16 sailors, its owner announced on Tuesday. During this attack, which took place on Saturday evening 138 nautical miles west of the port of Pointe-Noire, in international waters, pirates were able to board the Monjasa Reformer and “the entire crew put themselves in security in the citadel” (armored refuge, editor’s note) of the ship, indicated the shipowner Monjasa. No communication with the sailors of this maritime supply vessel, 134 m long…