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For years, the private paramilitary group Wagner has been considered Moscow’s armed wing abroad, notably in Syria and several African countries. This status is now being called into question by the halted rebellion led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, its leader. At the end of a spectacular mutiny that took him less than 400 kilometers from Moscow before he gave up, Prigozhin has now gone into exile in Belarus, a Moscow ally, leaving the world in doubt about his next moves including those concerning his troops operations in Africa. This map shows the likely and proven presence of Wagner troops in Africa.…

Kenyan President William Ruto has enacted a contentious new finance bill which will see the introduction of new taxes, amidst fierce criticism from the opposition and public. Announced by the presidency on Monday, the bill will see an increase in VAT on fuel from 8% to 16%, as well as an unpopular payroll levy to finance a low-cost housing program. Initially set at 3%, the levy has been reduced to 1.5%. Faced with the discontent caused by the law, the government withdrew some of the budget’s initial provisions, including a tax on beauty products. Ruto’s government, which was elected in August…

Police in Sierra Leone fired tear gas at the main opposition party’s headquarters on Sunday evening, authorities said, as voters awaited the results of a fiercely fought general election. Opposition All People’s Congress (APC) presidential candidate Samura Kamara said on Twitter that live bullets had also been fired at his office inside the party headquarters in the capital Freetown. Sidie Yahya Tunis, a spokesman for the APC, told AFP that one woman had died in the incident. “She was downstairs in the medical unit — she’s a nurse — we have a little health clinic in our office, that’s where…

One week after the end of a deadly unrest that shook Senegal, the country still counts its losses. Volunteers and staff from Dakar’s Cheikh Anta Diop University are trying to salvage what can still be out of some 200,000 university archives. Youths armed with Molotov cocktail allegedly set ablaze the building. “…. until proven otherwise, [I believe] students came and deemed it necessary to burn down the archives of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, a despicable result, I’m short of words,” emotional Abdourakhmane Kounta, an archivist and documentarist at the Faculty of Arts said. Cities across Senegal were plunged into…

Africa’s fauna is at the heart of Roger Ballen’s latest exhibition. The artist explores through installations and multimedia works the troubled relationship between humans and nature. The exhibition titled End of The Game has drawn crowds to Johannesburg’s Inside Out Center for the Arts since March 28. “There are a lot of people who grew up in the cities in Africa and other places in the world who have no relationship to nature. They spend their lives in a city. They don’t hardly know what a tree looks like anymore. Their whole life is virtual.,” the artist argues. ” […]…

After the revision advocated by Edouard Philippe, the Republicans in the Assembly are calling for the unilateral denunciation of the Franco-Algerian agreement on immigration, and have tabled a motion for a resolution to this effect, we learned from the group on Wednesday. This proposal calls “for the denunciation, by the French authorities, of the Franco-Algerian agreement of December 27, 1968” , which creates a special status for Algerian nationals in terms of movement, residence and employment in France , has we said from the same source, confirming information from RMC and JDD. Under the terms of this agreement, the Algerians…

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday defended the West African nation’s decision to stop subsidizing fuel, a move that already is adding to economic hardships by pushing up prices for transportation and commodities. The money saved by removing the decades long subsidy last week will help the government’s efforts to fight poverty and its initiatives, Tinubu told governors in a meeting in the capital city of Abuja. He appealed for patience even though hardship is biting harder on millions of citizens. “We can see the effects of poverty on the faces of our people. Poverty is not hereditary, it is…

Societe Generale has announced the conclusion of agreements with two African banking groups to sell four of its subsidiaries to them. They are found in Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania and Chad. Societe Generale announced on Friday the conclusion of agreements with two African banking groups to sell them four of its subsidiaries. Two will be in Congo and Equatorial Guinea at the Vista group, the others in Mauritania and Chad at the Coris group. The two groups “would take over all the activities operated by Societe Generale in Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania and Chad, as well as all the client…

With her bag slung over her shoulder and an orange sweater tied tightly around her waist, 10-year-old Rokia Koumaré heads for the banks of the Niger River in Bamako, Mali. Every morning, at around 7:00 am, she and dozens of her classmates take to their school on Dialogun Island, a small pirogue with a straw roof. Located in the Malian capital, this island school educates 218 children from the banks and islands of the River Niger. It was granted public school status in June 2022. It was built to guarantee a place of study for young people not attending school,”…

Kenya’s finance bill of 2023 contains a raft of proposals that intend to expand the country’s tax bracket. One of the controversial proposals is aimed at subjecting income earned through digital content monetization to a 15 percent withholding tax. Eric Omondi, a renown comedian is leading content creators in opposing the proposal. “Do not attempt, do not think, do not try to tax youth and especially online media. Do not tax content creators because you did not create them, you did not support them. You don’t know who they are, you don’t know their struggles, you have never talked to…