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Angolan President João Lourenço on Friday inaugurated the country’s first satellite control centre. Its main task is to monitor the activity of the satellite “ANGOSAT 2”. The southern African country had in October launched the main satellite with the help of Russia The inauguration took place at Funda area within Luanda, the capital city of Angola and fully equipped with technical and technological means. “With the launch of this satellite and its commissioning, Angola will win in all services, so we will improve our telecommunications and our social communication and will also benefit from this important project,” said President João.…

Noura paces around the center of Tunis in search of milk. “When I find it, I can not buy more than two bricks,” she said about a shortage that illustrates the plight of a sector “in slow collapse. The Tunisian market absorbs 1.8 million liters daily while production reaches a maximum of 1.2 million, according to official data. “Milk is essential, especially for our children,” Noura Bchini, a housewife in her fifties, told AFP. Near her, another customer, Leila Chaouali, says she gets it “but at specific times, especially in the morning. The afternoon there is more. This shortage came…

The M23 rebel group has captured Kitshanga, a stratregic town in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo from government troops, in its latest seizure of territory in North Kivu province. Hundreds of civilians have fled their homes. The rebels took the town on Thursday evening, after capturing several villages on the road that links it to the provincial capital Goma. Kitshanga sits on the last open route between North Kivu’s main economic hubs of Goma and Butembo. The others were cut off due to the fighting. “We tactically withdrew outside the city, in order to attract these genocidaires in depth…

Sudan’s de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said that Khartoum and Addis Ababa are “aligned and in agreement” on a controversial Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile which Egypt views as a threat. Burhan’s remarks came during a meeting on Thursday with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who was on a one-day visit to Khartoum, his first since Burhan led a 2021 military coup. “Burhan emphasized… that Sudan and Ethiopia are aligned and in agreement on all issues regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD),” according to a statement by the sovereign council, which he chairs. The dam has…

U.S. special operations forces have killed a senior Islamic State group official and 10 other extremists in remote northern Somalia, the Biden administration announced Thursday. The operation carried out on Wednesday targeted Bilal al-Sudani, a key financial facilitator for the global Islamic extremist organization, in a mountainous cave complex. “This action leaves the United States and its partners safer and more secure, and it reflects our steadfast commitment to protecting Americans from the threat of terrorism at home and abroad,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement. One Middle East analyst called Bilal al-Sudani’s killing “a big scalp” in…

US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen toured Thursday (Jan. 26) a Ford Motor plant in the South African capital. The plant is one of two in the country. Earlier that day, she met the Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. Yellen’s stop to Pretoria is part of her three-country tour of Africa that began in Senegal. South Africa is the United States’ largest trading partner on the continent. “We know that a thriving Africa is in the interest of the United States. A thriving Africa means a larger market for our goods and services. It means more investment opportunities for our businesses, like…

Carnival celebrations are returning to Rio de Janeiro. Samba schools have been rehearsing in the streets ahead of the main event scheduled for February 19th and 20th. Each year samba schools choose a theme for their parade. Themes vary from tributes to artists, countries and cultures to social issues. “I think Salgueiro’s show (this year, Ed.) talks about all these things, people who judge others and say what they are doing is wrong without even looking at themselves first. It’s a thought for everybody”, said 37year old Patrick Carvalho, choreographer at Salgueiro Samba School. Salgueiro Samba School will bring a message…

Africa’s last team in the 28th World Men’s Handball Championship seeks to reach the semifinal on Wednesday (Jan. 25) at 20:30 CET. Since the start of the tournament which kicked off on January 11, Egypt delivered almost a clean sheet. The Pharaohs won 4 of the 5 fixtures of the group stage. They only lost to defending champions Denmark. This year’s World Men’s Handball Championship is taking place in Sweden and Poland. The Egyptians eye a semi-finals qualification for the first time since 2001, when they finished fourth in France. African handball powerhouse During the 27th World Men’s Handball Championship…

Oil drilling began on Tuesday in a Chinese-operated field in Uganda. According to a government official, the East African country expects to start production by 2025. The China National Offshore Oil Corporation, CNOOC, operates the field. “It is an exciting moment for us as a national oil company but also an exciting moment for us as a country because there has been a general fatigue within the country on when first oil will come out. Today is not first oil, but it certainly is a big step in the right direction. It’s the day when we commission the drilling of…

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, accused the West of pressuring developing countries to align in favor of Ukraine. Lavrov’s remarks were made in Luanda on Wednesday at another stage of his African tour openly seeking international support. The war in Ukraine was the central theme of talks with the Angolan authorities, who asked Lavrov for an assessment of the situation on the ground. The head of Russian diplomacy pointed the finger at Western allies, accusing them of “transforming Ukraine into the stage of an hybrid war” against Russia. At the United Nations, Angola initially abstained from condemning the Russian invasion.…