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South Africa officially requested the extradition of two Gupta brothers currently in the United Arab Emirates on charges of money laundering and fraud. “The matter relating to the Gupta brothers, the United Arab Emirates, Mr Atul Kumar Gupta and Mr Rajesh Kumar Gupta, commonly known as the Gupta brothers, are accused persons in two criminal matters.”, said Ronald Lamola, South African Justice Minister. The brothers were arrested in Dubai in June 2022 on the basis of an Interpol Red Notice launched by Pretoria. They are accused of having looted Africa’s most industrialized country with the complicity of former president Jacob Zuma.…

Tunisians were called to the polls on July 25 to decide whether they endorsed a new Constitution that would give extensive powers to the president. Many activists rejected this referendum saying it is part of Kais Saied’s authoritarian, anti-democratic drift. According to the head of the electoral authority, 12% of voters had cast their ballots at midday, claiming it was a good turnout. This referendum took place a year after the Tunisian leader ousted the elected parliament. After voting, Saied defended his stance saying it would end economic and political stagnation. “There is no dictatorship, said the leader, as I said…

The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in over 40 years, as a result, 18 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are going hungry, according to the U.S. Agency for International Development. The agency met with residents of a village in Turkana, northwest Kenya on July 23 to find ways to improve their support. “My children ask me for food and yet I can neither provide food for them nor steal it. I am too old to become a thief. This desperate situation makes me shed tears.”, admitted Enos Lochul, a 51-year-old community leader in Turkana. A mother of…

The German charity Sea-Watch carried out four operations in less than 24 hours, rescuing 428 migrants and refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean sea from Northern Africa to Europe on overcrowded rickety boats. The migrants were rescued by the crew of Sea-Watch 3 and among those taken on board were a pregnant woman and a man with severe burns. Sea-Watch 3 is urgently asking for a safe port as the ship is unable to support so many people on board. According to the United Nations agency for refugees (UNHCR) 32,782 migrants and refugees have arrived in Italy by sea as…

Egyptian smallholders may have a major role in feeding the country’s 103 million population, they are still struggling to survive. Many say they are facing difficulties to sell their harvests on markets and end up being cash-strapped and indebted. Such as Zakaria Aboueldahab, who grows onions in Qalyubia, in the north of the country.”Farmers are dead, especially small farmers, as we aren’t able to buy anything nor sell our crops, says the Egyptian farmer,How can the farmer pay his land’s rental fees and eat or drink?”. Financing, marketing and infrastructure hurdles create massive gaps between supply and demand. And with the…

President João Lourenço called Angolans to “honor the memory” of late president José Eduardo dos Santos by voting for the ruling party for whom he is the candidate. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola has been governing the central African country since its independence in 1975. According to João Lourenço who launched his campaign with this speech on Saturday, the election comes at a time in which Angolans “still feel the pain of the physical disappearance of comrade President José Eduardo dos Santos.” The former president who ruled the country for 38 years died in Spain on July…

Morroccan firefighters battle infernos. Fires ravaging remote mountain forests in the northern region of the Kingdom have killed at least one person, authorities said Friday. The corpse was found amid one of the blazes in the Larache region. In the north of Morocco, fires which are fanned by strong winds have forced more than 1,000 families to evacuate. Raging blazes broke out on Wednesday and have already destroyed one thousand six hundred hectares of woodland in the provinces of Larache, Ouezzane, Taza and Tetouan. Hundreds of personnel from the civil protection service and water and forest department, as well as…

Two bridges were blown up by armed groups in Burkina Faso on Friday night by suspected Jihadists in the West African nation. The fighters blew up two crucial bridges raising fears that they intend to isolate the Sahel region. The attackers destroyed the Woussé bridge, forcing a convoy that was supposed to supply the town of Djibo to return to Kongoussi. They also blew up again the Naré bridge, further disrupting transport in the area. The bridge was attacked for the first time on June 30, but work was carried out to allow people to continue using the road before…

South Africa’s power distributor ESKOM has assured that the frequent power cuts will come to an end by the end of the week as more generators have started operating. While meeting President Cyril Ramaphosa at Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga province, Eskom head said that by the end of July the risk would be significantly diminished once unit 2 of the Koeberg nuclear power station comes back onto the grid, which “is about 920 MW, easing the power outage in the country. This month, the country has endured almost two weeks of stage-6 load shedding, which entails multiple power cuts…

Several groups of Chadian rebel and political parties on Saturday withdrew from talks with the African nation’s military government, accusing it of seeking to destabilize peace efforts. The move, by about half the groups in the talks, came less than 24 hours after President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno’s administration announced that a national peace dialogue intended to pave the way for elections would start on August 20. In a statement, the rebel groups taking part in Qatar mediated talks in Doha accused the government delegation of “harassment, intimidation, threats and disinformation”. The new date had been set without any consultation,…