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Former South African President Zuma Sentenced to 15 Months in Prison

Jacob Zuma was sentenced to imprisonment for contempt of court, after he refused to appear at a government-appointed commission investigating alleged corruption during his nine years in office.

Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo: A political fighter who won’t quit

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, acquitted in March of charges of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrives home in Abidjan on Thursday. Arrested in April 2011 during a post-presidential election crisis that saw more than 3,000 people killed, Gbagbo has endured many political battles during a long and tumultous career.

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Mali junta leader says transitional president, PM have been stripped of duties

Political turmoil in Mali deepened Tuesday as the country's strongman pushed out transitional leaders who had been tasked with steering the return to civilian rule after a coup last August.

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Covid-19: How fake news is hampering Ivory Coast’s vaccination efforts

Disinformation online has led to a sluggish vaccine roll-out in Ivory Coast. Ivorian and international health authorities have told FRANCE 24 that they are concerned about the pandemic of fake news. While this problem is not unique to Ivory Coast, the West African state is lagging behind a number of other countries in the region when it comes to vaccination rates.

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Africa's Forgotten War—Photos and Stories From Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis

The violence has escalated to the point where civilians often get caught in the cross-fire between military and armed separatists in the country.

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Africa's Forgotten War—Photos and Stories From Cameroon's Anglophone Crisis

Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno killed in clashes with rebel fighters

Idriss Deby Itno's shock death cut his 30-year political career short and will likely throw Chadian politics into disarray.

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Idriss Deby Itno CREDIT: Andrew Harnik/AP

Military: Chadian president killed after 30 years in power

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In this Feb. 6, 2008 file photo, Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno, center-right, meets with French Defense Minister Herve Morin, center-left, in N'Djamena, Chad. Deby, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed

At least 32 killed in Egypt train crash

At least 32 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a train crash in southern Egypt, the country's railway authority said.

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EPA / The trains collided in the southern province of Sohag

Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko dies in German hospital aged 56

Ivory Coast's Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in a hospital in southwest Germany, two days after his 56th birthday, the government said on Wednesday.

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Hamed Bakayoko, pictured here in Paris in 2017, was a close ally of President Alassane Ouattara. © Thomas Samson, AFP

Ivory Coast's ruling party wins majority in peaceful parliamentary vote

Ivory Coast's ruling party has won an absolute majority in parliament, the country's electoral commission announced on Tuesday, three days after a peaceful vote raised hopes that the country's recent violent tensions were behind it.

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Workers of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) count ballots after the closure of polling stations in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on March 6, 2021. © Issouf Sanogo, AFP

Senegal protests: Ousmane Sonko charged with rape

A judge in Senegal has charged opposition leader Ousmane Sonko with rape and released him on bail, after days of deadly protests sparked by his arrest last week.

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REUTERS / Mr Sonko's supporters squared up to security forces outside the court on Monday

Ghana receives world's first free Covid-19 vaccines under Covax scheme

Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery Wednesday of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India.

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Workers offload boxes of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines as the country receives its first batch of Covid-19 jabs under the COVAX scheme, at the international airport of Accra, Ghana February 24, 2021. REUTERS - FRANCIS KOKOROKO

‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero Paul Rusesabagina’s Terrorism Trial Begins

Case is seen as an example of President Paul Kagame’s Efforts to squash political dissent beyond Rwanda’s borders

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Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about Rwanda's 1994 genocide, inside the courtroom in Kigali on Wednesday. PHOTO: CLEMENT UWIRINGIYIMANA/REUTERS

South African variant of Covid found in eight areas of England

Door-to-door testing launched as cases found in Hertfordshire, Surrey, Kent, Walsall, Sefton and three London boroughs

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Covid signage in London. All adults in affected postcodes will be urged to get a PCR swab test and public health officials will start going door-to-door this week. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Rex/Shutterstock

Campaigning in Ghana winds up ahead of presidential, parliamentary polls

Defeaning vuvuzelas and party songs took over Ghana's capital Accra on Saturday, the final day of campaigning ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections.

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Supporters of Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo gather ahead of the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Accra on December 5, 2020. © Francis Kokoroko, Reuters

Ethiopia Tigray crisis: Conflict worsens as airports attacked

The Ethiopian government says forces in the northern state of Tigray have fired rockets into a neighbouring region.

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AFP / The conflict has forced thousands of civilians to cross the border into Sudan

Tigray crisis: Why there are fears of civil war in Ethiopia

The federal government in Ethiopia has vowed to continue a military offensive in the northern Tigray region despite international calls for restraint.

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GETTY IMAGES / The election held in Tigray in September in defiance of the federal government heightened tensions

Nigeria police 'kill' protesters in Lagos after curfew imposed

Several protesters were killed by Nigerian security forces in Lagos on Tuesday, Amnesty International said, after witnesses reported armed men opened fire on demonstrators defying a curfew order.

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A demonstrator sits on a barricade blocking a road near the Lagos State House, despite a round-the-clock curfew imposed by the authorities on the Nigerian state of Lagos in response to protests against alleged police brutality, Nigeria October 20, 2020.

French court approves transfer of Rwanda genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to UN tribunal

France's top appeals court ruled Wednesday that alleged Rwandan genocide financier Félicien Kabuga should be transferred to a UN tribunal in Tanzania to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

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A wanted poster with a photograph of Felicien Kabuga is displayed at the French Gendarmerie's Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity, Genocides and War Crimes (OCLCH) in Paris on May 19, 2020. © Benoît Tessier, REUTERS

Ivory Coast court bars former leader Gbagbo, ex-PM Soro from presidential vote

Ivory Coast's top court on Monday cleared the path for President Alassane Ouattara to seek a contentious third term, as protests turned violent in several cities and fears grew of a repeat of the conflict that claimed 3,000 lives in the West African country a decade ago.

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Ivory Coast court bars former leader Gbagbo, ex-PM Soro from presidential vote