Millions of Senegalese citizens are preparing to head to polling stations across the West African country on Sunday for presidential elections. More than 6.5 million people have registered to take part in the vote, the first since a 2016 referendum reduced a president’s term in office from seven to five years. The change means a leader can now only serve… Read more »
The Cameroonian opposition leader who claims he won last year’s election has been arrested. Police arrested Maurice Kamto on Monday along with several other opposition figures, including one who was pulled out of his hospital bed where he was recovering from gunshot wounds sustained at a protest against the central African country’s longtime president, Paul Biya. Kamto was arrested at… Read more »
Islamic militants in Somalia have shot dead a senior manager running the port of Bossaso in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, and a car bomb has killed at least 11 in Mogadishu. The assassination of Paul Anthony Formosa, a Maltese citizen who worked for the Dubai government-owned P&O Ports, and the bombing in the capital, were both claimed by the extremist group… Read more »
Belgium has agreed to take in the former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo following his acquittal at the international criminal court in The Hague, a foreign ministry spokesman has said. Karl Lagatie confirmed the agreement on Saturday, and added that he did not know if the ex-president was already in Belgium. “That is also part of the framework of our support for international… Read more »
French oil and gas major Total’s South African offshore discovery could contain 1 billion barrels of total resources and is “probably quite big”, Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said on Thursday. Total said it had made a significant gas condensate discovery after drilling its Brulpadda prospects on Block 11B/12B in the Outeniqua Basin. “It is gas condensate and light oil. Mainly… Read more »