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The incident occurred during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. The bridge was on the road connecting the towns of Kaya and Dori, one of the main routes between the capital and the north of the country. Burkina battles jihadists who spread terror among civilians and block access to key axis. In Burkina Faso’s capital long lines of cars and bus have appeared. Those wishing to travel to Ouagadougou or leave via the Nare bridge are stuck for long hours. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, gunmen blew up a bridge on the road connecting the towns of Kaya…

South Africans are struggling in the dark to cope with increased power cuts that have hit households and businesses across the country. The rolling power cuts have been experienced for years, but this week the country’s state-owned power utility, Eskom, extended them so that some residents and businesses have gone without power for more than 9 hours a day. A strike by Eskom workers added to the utility’s woes including breakdowns of its aging coal-fired power plants, insufficient generation capacity and corruption, according to experts. The prolonged power cuts are hitting South Africans in the winter months of the Southern…

Protesters stormed Libya’s parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk on Friday, demonstrating against deteriorating living conditions and political deadlock, Libyan media reported. Several television channels said that protesters had managed to penetrate the building and committed acts of vandalism, while media outlets showed images of thick columns of black smoke coming from its perimeter as angry young protesters burned tyres. Other media reports said part of the building had been burned. The parliament building was empty as Friday falls on the weekend in Libya. Libya’s parliament, or House of Representatives, has been based in Tobruk, hundreds of kilometres…

The Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak has advised the government to withdraw the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy). According to the MP, he does not see the essence of continuing with the collection of the levy since it is not yielding the needed result the government had projected. “Kudos to the good people of Ghana for refusing to be exploited by the corrupt and unaccountable Akufo-Addo/Bawumia NPP government via the obnoxious, regressive, unjustified E-levy foisted on them. I pray more Ghanaians will avoid paying E-Levy. “We gave humane options of raising revenue, they refused: plug revenue loopholes…

The Ghana Police Service has commended the demonstrators and police officers deployed for a successful outcome of day two of the Arise Ghana demonstration. “We are grateful to the general public for their cooperation and understanding in the spite of the inconvenience the demonstration undoubtedly caused them. “Whilst we continue to register our disappointment at the riotous conduct of the demonstrators on the first day, we commend them for their comportment today which, we hope would provide lessons for the future occasions to help deepen our democratic practices as country,” the police disclosed in a statement signed by Director Public…

At least 14 migrants died in a fire that broke out on Monday on a pirogue in a southern Senegalese town, the mayor of the commune and a medical official told AFP on Tuesday. “As I speak, we have been able to fish out 14 lifeless bodies,” David Diatta, mayor of the Casamance town of Kafountine, said by phone. “It is likely that the toll will rise,” he added. “We also have 21 injured, including four with second-degree burns,” said Bourama Faboure, the town’s chief nurse. About 140 people were on the pirogue. About 90 of them survived and were…

It has been a long and challenging path for Angella Okutoyi to reach the grass courts of Wimbledon but the 18-year-old is in no doubt about her ambition. She spends hours training on the court, five days a week. She credits her success to her grandmother and is inspired by legend Serena Williams. Angella Okutoyi may just be 18 yet she’s already a tennis sensation. In January she became the first Kenyan woman to win a Grand slam juniors match and the first Kenyan to reach the third round in singles of any event at a Grand Slam. Since then she…

A new strategy for the Senegalese opposition. The Yewwi Askan Wi coalition urged its supporters Wednesday to express their discontent with president Macky Sall through the ballot box. Opposition leader Ousmane Sonko also added during a press briefing in Dakar that anti-government demonstrations initially scheduled on June 29 were postponed. “We have nothing to gain if we go on with this strategy. What remains to be done? We must move resolutely towards the legislative elections and the Senegalese must disavow Macky Sall over his economic and judicial leadership, Sonko said. The Senegalese disavow him in relation to his unhealthy political practices tending to…

An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced to death the murderer of a student who was killed outside her university because she refused his advances, a court source said. The verdict in the case, which has sparked outrage in the country and beyond, was handed down in Mansoura, north of Cairo, just two days after the trial began. The ruling will be sent to Egypt’s grand mufti, a senior religious authority who almost always confirms death sentences. The Mansoura court found the defendant Mohammed Adel guilty of the “premeditated murder” of student Nayera Ashraf, saying he had confessed to the crime…

Spain’s prime minister is defending the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla, depicting the attempt in which at least 23 people died as “an attack” on Spain’s border. Sánchez, whose left-to-centre government is trying to improve ties with Morocco following an acrimonious diplomatic dispute over Western Sahara, has refused to criticize the crackdown. “…I regret the death of these people, as it could not be otherwise. Of course, a very special remembrance to the families of the deceased, but also recognition of…