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A peaceful demonstration in Chad’s capital city was dispersed by police Saturday, leading to dozens of protesters being injured. Fifteen minutes after the beginning of the march, video showed panicked crowds running from the scene as police began to use tear gas grenades against protesters. The demonstration on Saturday morning drew a crowd of hundreds, carrying placards and Chad’s national flag, to demand that the military transitional council currently governing the country organise elections and put control back into the hands of elected civilians. While Saturday’s demonstration was authorised by the government, Jacques Ngaram, a protestor and political activist, told…

Tunisian President Kais Saied had a telephone conversation on Saturday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron during which he expressed his regrets over the reduction announced by Paris of visas granted to Tunisians, according to an official statement. “The president regrets the decision to reduce the number of visas granted to Tunisians who wish to travel to France,” the Tunisian presidency said on its Facebook page. According to the presidency in Tunis, during the conversation between the two heads of state, Mr. Macron “said that this measure could be revised.” President Saied replied that “the issue of irregular migration can…

Bertin Kasolene is clapping his hands and counting in time to the beat. Around him is a small circle of children, stamping their feet and waving their arms with the biggest smiles of their faces. It’s a world away from the hard reality they’ve faced in recent months after a volcanic eruption forced many of them to flee their homes. Kasolene runs a local dance company in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is helping children overcome their stress and trauma following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in May. According to the U.N., around thirty people were killed while 3,500…

Moroccan authorities have dismantled a cell of Islamic State group-affiliated militants and arrested three suspects accused of plotting an assassination, security services said Tuesday. The suspects, detained in the southern city of Errachidia, had planned “crimes of a terrorist nature against individuals” and selected a public servant for “imminent assassination”, according to the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation (BCIJ), which oversees counter-terrorism operations. Security forces searched the suspects’ homes and a shop, where they found military clothing, jihadist literature and information, it said. The head of the cell was “active in recruiting from the among followers of traditional religious trends”,…

Haiti’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday asked a judge to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the slaying of the president and asked officials to bar him from leaving the country, a move that could further destabilize a country that seemed to be calming after turmoil that followed the assassination and a recent major earthquake. The order filed by Port-au-Prince prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude came on the same day that he had requested Henry meet with him and explain why a key suspect in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse called him twice just hours after the killing. “There are enough compromising…

Egypt on Tuesday showcased an ancient tomb structure belonging to the cemetery complex of King Djoser, a pharaoh who lived more than 4,500 years ago, following extensive restorations of the site. The structure – known as the Southern Tomb – is largely underground and includes a labyrinth of corridors, decorated with hieroglyphic carvings and tiles. A central funeral shaft houses a massive granite-clad sarcophagus from Egypt’s Third Dynasty. However, the pharaoh was not actually buried there but in the famed Step Pyramid nearby. The two structures make up part of the Saqqara complex near Cairo – one of the country’s…

Leaders of political parties in Guinea met on Tuesday with members of the junta that removed President Alpha Conde from power a week ago. The meeting was the first of several that the National Committee for Rally and Development (CNRD), led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, is expected to have with political activists, civil society and international representatives. The military was expected to face more pressure to set a time frame for new elections after they opened the four-day series of meetings about the West African nation’s future following the coup on September 5. “It is about the possibility to have…

Ghana Premier league champions Hearts of Oak SC will host Guinean side CL Kamsar in a single game on September 19 2021 at the Accra Sports Stadium. The first leg encounter was scheduled to come off in Guinean on September 12 but had to be canceled due to the political unrest in the country. The winner of the tie is set to advance to the next stage of the 2021/22 Total Energies CAF Champions League. In a statement from the Ghana FA delivered by CAF, The Organising Committee of the Competition has decided that the match which was scheduled to…

Former Ghana International Yaw Preko has called for support for under-fire Black Stars coach Charles Kwabla Akonnor. According to the former Medeama coach, Akonnor has the quality to succeed as head of the national team with support from Ghanaians. Charles Kwabla Akonnor was appointed as the coach for the Black Stars in 2020, replacing Kwesi Appiah on a two-year deal. He was deputy to Coach Appiah before being handed the mandate to coach the team. The 47-year-old has come under pressure in recent times due to his call ups and style of play. The Black Stars failed to impress against…

Astute soccer manager Joseph Emmanuel Sarpong says the current Black Stars ‘don’t have quality’ after the team’s defeat against South Africa on Monday. Charles Akonnor’s side were beaten 1-0 by Bafana Bafana at the FNB Stadium in their second match of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Black Stars are no longer on top of Group G because of the defeat. South Africa are now in control of the group with four matches remaining. “Black Stars don’t have quality at this stage,” Sarpong reacted to the defeat. “It is sad this is happening because this is not our Black Stars…