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The head of the junta in Guinea said he wanted to be inspired by the “model” of Rwanda during the visit of President Paul Kagame, one of the first of a foreign head of state since the military took power in 2021. “From the 1994 genocide to the reunification of the country, Rwanda has been able to recover, assume and rebuild itself before asserting itself as an African reference. This is why the Rwandan model fascinates Colonel President Mamadi Doumbouya”, the Guinean presidency said in a statement on Tuesday. Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, who was sworn in as president following the…

Vegetables on Moroccan markets are almost as expensive as in some French supermarkets, with a minimum wage that is five times lower: the country’s agricultural model, based on exports, is being called into question by record inflation, which is provoking anger among the population. The inflationary surge, +10.1% year-on-year in February, including a 20.1% rise in food products, according to the High Commission for Planning (HCP), has earned the executive criticism from all sides in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan, when consumption increases. If the scale of the demonstrations against the high cost of living remains limited,…

Luciano Spalletti said Monday (Apr.17) that the return of star striker Victor Osimhen will more than make up for other key players missing in Napoli’s Champions League quarter-final showdown with AC Milan. Nigeria’s Osimhen played his first minutes since the international break in Saturday’s (Apr. 15) goalless draw with Verona — hitting the bar. He will lead the line at the Stadio Maradona as Napoli try to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the first leg and reach the last four for the first time. The defeat at the San Siro also cost Napoli two key players for Tuesday (Apr.18) night’s…

The Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, which have been fighting for control of the country for four days, agreed on a 24-hour ceasefire on Tuesday, according to Arab media. Hope for a pause in the violence emerged as escalating fighting threatened to drag the country into a spiral of chaos. Millions of Sudanese, in the capital and other major cities, took refuge in their homes, caught in the crossfire as the two forces bombarded residential areas with artillery fire and airstrikes and engaged in firefights in the street. Over the past day, fighters from Khartoum have attacked a…

Loud country music came through the speakers as cowboys entered the arena to kickstart this year’s Rupununi Ranchers Rodeo in Lethem Guyana. Since the mid-eighties, the Rupununi Ranchers’ Rodeo ground in the country’s southwest has hosted one of the nation’s main cowboys fest. Thousands of visitors travelled from the capital and abroad to attend the annual-event held over the weekend (Apr. 08-09). For 22-year old Shinier Smartt, who travel with friends, it was a first. “I came up here a couple of days ago. We travelled up with a truck it was just the dust (that bothered a little) but…

The United States is preparing long-term assistance for Côte d’Ivoire, Benin and Togo, threatened by an extension of jihadist violence from the Sahel to coastal regions of West Africa, officials of state security said. These officials claimed that Western support was also crucial to prevent the progression in the Sahel countries of mercenaries from the Russian private security company Wagner , deployed in particular in Mali – although the colonels in power in Bamako present them as ” military instructors. US Vice President Kamala Harris , visiting Ghana in March as part of growing US efforts in Africa , pledged…

One young man has dyed yellow hair and a nose ring, another looks hard, another holds his son: they are among the group of men who agreed to pose with a flower for Cuban photographer Moník Molinet, who is trying to break down stereotypes. A series of portraits of men who agreed to pose with a bougainvillea or a geranium in their left ear make up the exhibition “Masculinities”, which opened at Havana’s Fábrica de Arte. “Avoiding stereotypes, it occurred to me to see how I could try to show men who were told from outside hegemonic masculinity,” Molinet, 33,…

Kenya’s President, William Ruto, announced that the country will not acquire loans to pay civil servants, even as union groups threatened to go on strike due to unpaid March salaries. According to Ruto, the salary delays are due to the country’s substantial public debt, with some loans becoming due this month. He emphasized that taxes collected by the revenue authority would be utilized to pay the salaries. However, at least two worker umbrella bodies have warned of a strike this week if the salaries are not paid. Kenya’s chief economic adviser, speaking to the local media, assured that the salaries…

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,”…