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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…

Following an historic fourth place at the World Cup, Morocco is looking ahead for more success in world football. Their first challenge: Brazil, this Saturday at the Ibn Batouta Stadium in Tangier, Morocco. Head coach Walid Regragui is pleased with the friendly match against the five-time World Champions, as he wants “to keep at a good level”, as he said in a news conference on Friday ahead of the match. “If we want to be at a good level and to achieve important results – especially against big teams like Spain, Portugal or Brazil, like tomorrow’s (Saturday’s, Ed.) match – we must be solid, we must not change our identity. But what’s good is that we…

The Rwandan government announced on Friday that Paul Rusesabagina, an outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, is set to be released. Rusesabagina, who also played a part in the hit film “Hotel Rwanda”, was jailed on terrorism charges in September 2021. The Rwandan government’s spokesman maintained that all procedures were followed. “There is no doubt that the procedure was well respected, and there is no doubt that Mr.Rusesabagina had been convicted because he deserved it. On this point there is no doubt. Today he is released because the law allows it. And you also have to remember that if you relapse and fall back into the…

The recent approval of anti-gay legislation in Uganda set off the alarm in neighboring Kenya also in the grip of anti-gay sentiment. Last month, Kenya’s Supreme Court ruled against a petition seeking to bar LGBTQ lobbying groups, sparking a torrent of condemnation including from the attorney general. Jasmine Nelima is a lesbian woman in Kenya who admits she lives in fear. “The court (Kenya Supreme Court, Ed.) has done a good thing to accept us the way we are and as we walk outside we know the courts acknowledge us but the main issue is that our President has declined to acknowledge the LGBTQ community in Kenya and that makes us live in hiding “,…

A Nigerian senator, Ike Ekweremadu, was found guilty in a London court on Thursday for trying to have a young man’s kidney removed last year for a transplant to his daughter. In addition to the 60-year-old senator, his wife Beatrice, 56, and a doctor who acted as a go-between, Obinna Obeta, 50, were also found guilty of conspiring to bring the young man, from Lagos, to the UK to have his kidney removed. The couple’s daughter Sonia, 25, was cleared. The influential senator, a former deputy speaker of the Nigerian Senate, and his wife pleaded not guilty, as did their…

The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that U.S. accusations of war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are “inflammatory” and “selective because they unfairly allocate responsibility among the parties” to the conflict. On Monday evening, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who had just returned from Ethiopia, said that all the warring parties – pro-government forces and rebels – had committed war crimes during the two-year conflict in Tigray, saying that many of these acts were not “due to chance” or “an indirect consequence of the war” but “were calculated and deliberate. He pointed especially to crimes against humanity attributed to…