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Four top Nigerian presidential candidates signed a “peace” deal on Wednesday ahead of presidential elections on Saturday. The only candidate absent from the ceremony was Bola Ahmed Tinubu from the ruling party All Progressives Congress (APC) who was represented by his vice presidential running mate. The head of the Nigerian electoral commission confirmed the organization is ready to hold the election. “The signing of the Peace Accord today comes at a critical moment in the electoral calendar. The campaign for Presidential and National Assembly elections ends at midnight tomorrow Thursday 23rd February 2023. The election will hold on Saturday this week. INEC is ready”, said the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu.…

Floyd Mayweather was in a confident mood as he addressed the media on Wednesday and claimed he will continue to fight in exhibition bouts until he starts receiving “brutal punishment.” The former five-weight world champion will take on ex-reality TV star and MMA fighter Aaron Chalmers at London’s O2 arena on Saturday just one day after his 46th birthday. Despite his age Mayweather appears to have lost none of his pre-fight swaggers, boldly declaring there are only two things that are perfect in life “God and my boxing record!” Since retiring with an unbeaten 50-0 record after beating MMA star…

The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights reacted to President Kais Saied’s comments accusing sub-Saharan African migrants of causing crime while posing a demographic threat. The spokesman for the rights group accused the President of racism and hate speech. “We feel ashamed of the president’s (Kais Saied) speech. We feel discontented for the words used (in his speech) which stigmatize and discriminate against sub-Saharan migrants”, said Romdhane Ben Amor, spokesman of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights. Last week, 23 rights groups said the state had already started cracking down on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa while turning a blind eye to racist “hate speech”. “The president of the republic must bear responsibility and…

South Sudan’s President has urged the country’s more than two million refugees to return home in his first meeting with displaced people since civil war erupted almost a decade ago. President Salva Kiir’s appeal on Wednesday came as the country prepares to hold its first elections since gaining independence from Sudan in 2011. South Sudan’s delayed elections are set to take place in December 2024. South Sudan is still recovering from the five-year civil war that erupted in late 2013, killed hundreds of thousands of people, and ended with a peace agreement in 2018. For a while, fleeing South Sudanese…

Authorities in Madagascar have announced that the passage of the powerful tropical cyclone Freddy resulted in four deaths. The storm affected some 16,600 people according to the country’s National Risk Management Office. The powerful gusts of wind reached around 130 kilometers per hour; contrary to last year’s cyclone Batsirai, cyclone Freddy did not bring as much rain as expected. Freddy is the first cyclone and the second tropical weather system to hit Madagascar during the current season according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). After Madagascar, the cyclone is now heading to Mozambique and Zimbabwe on the African mainland. Last year’s Cyclone Batsirai killed more than 130 people across Madagascar. AMN | Reporters | AFP.

South Africa’s economic hub, Gauteng is bearing the brunt of water shortages caused by dwindling reservoir levels due to high demand of water. As taps are running dry, Dr Ferrial Adam, Water and Environment Manager for the Community Action Network (WaterCAN) believes the cause for the crisis are factors like ageing infrastructure and inequality. “We cannot deny that there is an additional element that is affecting people’s access to water and that is, on a local government level and municipal level. You have infrastructure deterioration and that is also leading to people not having sufficient water. There’s also the element…

The lighthouse, the library, Alexander the Great, Cleopatra…: in Marseille, the Mucem intends to “remove the varnish” of the myth of Alexandria in an exhibition that plunges into the heart of the Egyptian city thanks to the back and forth between ancient pieces and contemporary creations. Like Marseille and many other Mediterranean cities, “Alexandria is a port city, a city of emigration, a city of immigration, a cosmopolitan city,” says Arnaud Quertinmont, one of the curators of “Alexandria: Previous Futures” (until May 8 at the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean, the Mucem). Founded by Alexander the Great…

The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called for targeted sanctions against Eritrean leaders, accusing the authorities of conscripting thousands of people, including minors, for military service and punishing the families of those who do not. One of the world’s most closed and authoritarian countries, Eritrea, ruled with an iron fist since its independence from Ethiopia in 1993 by President Issaias Afeworki, has a policy of universal conscription for an unlimited period. In a statement, HRW called for targeted sanctions against Eritrean leaders for the “ongoing repression” and called for a thorough review of the issue by the UN…

South Africa is facing a major electricity crisis, sometimes with no power for almost six hours a day. It is also affecting small business owners struggling to survive and forced to make hard choices. “We can run the store which is good, but we can’t run the whole store, and it’s affecting sales because customers tend to buy less because they are worried about their fridges at home. We deal with fresh stuff so it does not last long,” said Joe, a store owner. The outages which have lasted for more than 200 days since last year have piled misery on…

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended its operations in an area of northwest Burkina Faso where armed assailants killed two of its employees on Wednesday, the medical charity said in a statement. “On the morning of Wednesday, February 8, a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders vehicle carrying a four-person medical team on the road between Dédougou and Tougan (northwest) was targeted by armed men who fired on the crew. Two employees were killed, while two others managed to escape,” MSF said. Two Burkina Faso nationals – the driver and a logistics supervisor aged 39 and 34 respectively – were killed,…