By Rédaction Africanews with AP French President Emmanuel Macron and his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto on Monday announced new partnerships in arts and sports and emphasized the need to leverage Africa’s human capital abundance and France’s technological advancement to grow economies. The two presidents met young people at Kenya’s University of Nairobi on the first day of the Africa Forward Summit and interacted with top African artists and athletes. Macron said tech solutions used by most countries come from the United States and China yet Africa and Europe could collaborate for stronger innovations. “I think we have a common fight,…
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By Rédaction Africanews Uganda and the Democratic Republic are looking to strenghten their cooperation with the signing of six new bilateral agreements on Monday. Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi travelled to Kampala for the 9th session of the two countries’ Joint Standing Committee, ahead of his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni’s swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday. The six Memoranda of Understanding tackle various key sectors including trade, security, diplomatic relations and tourism. “These agreements mark an important step in strengthening people-to-people ties, improving cross-border cooperation, expanding trade opportunities, enhancing connectivity, and supporting peace and stability in the Great Lakes Region,” the Uganda State House said on…
By Rédaction Africanews Tensions are flaring between the United States and South Sudan. On a visit to Juba last week, the head of the US State Department Bureau of African Affairs Nick Checker urged South Sudanese authorities to “take urgent action to restore peace.” In a statement from the US embassy on Monday, Washington called on Juba to take further action to implement the 2018 peace agreement that put an end to South Sudan’s civil war. While “flawed,” Checker said, the agreement “provides the basis of legitimacy for the transitional government.” The US also denounced the detention of South Sudanese Vice President Riek Machar,…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP, AP The United Nations must be reformed to increase African representation, secretary-general António Guterres said on Monday when he broke ground on an expansion of the UN’s Kenyan campus. Guterres has repeatedly called over the years for change to give Africa and other regions better representation at the UN. But this request has made little progress since it requires the five permanent Security Council members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — to agree to dilute their own power. “We need deeper reforms of… global institutions that reflect the world as it is today,…
JA (Junior Achievement) Africa (www.JA-Africa.org), with support from the ExxonMobil Foundation, announces the launch of the 2026 ExxonMobil Foundation STEM Africa Program, an initiative designed to equip young Africans with critical science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) and artificial intelligence (AI) skills. The program builds on a successful partnership that has already reached more than 10,000 young people across Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Nigeria. The 2026 edition, dubbed STEM Africa 2.0, is an initiative that integrates AI learning pathways and aims to equip 4,000 additional students aged 14–17 with the skills needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital…
By Dominic Wabwireh with AP Hundreds of terrified residents fled northern neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince over the weekend, scattering along the road to Haiti’s main airport as relentless gang clashes pushed yet another wave of families from their homes. Sandra Saintus, standing among piles of hastily gathered belongings, blamed the authorities for abandoning citizens to armed groups. “The government of my country put me in this situation. I thank those thieves for forcing us to abandon our country,” she said, her anger echoing the frustration of many who feel trapped between state failure and gang rule. Nearby, Mikerlange Sidor described a mass exodus…
Dozens of Nigerian fishermen are feared dead after Chad’s military launched air strikes on Boko Haram militants in the Lake Chad region, a local fishermen’s leader has told the BBC. Abubakar Gamandi Usman, chairman of Lake Chad Basin Fisheries Association of Nigeria, said several of the union’s members were missing and estimated more than 40 had died. No bodies have yet been recovered but Usman believes some fishermen were hit by the strikes, while others drowned after attempting to flee in overloaded boats. Authorities in Chad and Nigeria have not commented, but on Sunday Chad’s presidency said it had carried…
The King Baudouin Foundation awards €250,000 to Friendship Bench, a Zimbabwe-founded model partnering with governments and organisations to implement low-cost, fully integrated mental health care worldwide. The King Baudouin Foundation has awarded the 2025-2026 KBF Africa Prize to Friendship Bench, in recognition of its pioneering work to expand access to affordable, evidence-based mental health care and address the growing global mental health crisis. Across Africa, mental health remains critically underfunded and underserved. WHO estimates that around 150 million people in the region are affected by mental health conditions, with access to services severely limited and unevenly distributed. In Southern Africa,…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP The leader of Sierra Leone’s opposition voiced alarm on Monday over alleged links between the west African country and international drug trafficking and organised crime networks. In an open letter to President Julius Maada Bio, Abdulai Kargbo, leader of the main opposition APC party, pointed to a multi-million-dollar seizure last week of drugs on a ship that had left Sierra Leon’s capital, Freetown. On Thursday, Spanish police said they had seized firearms and 30 tonnes of cocaine worth $700 million from a Comoros-flagged vessel in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship had departed from the Sierra…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP The Nigerian military and the “bandit” gangs it is fighting killed around 100 civilians Sunday in one of the bloodiest single days of the country’s conflict against armed groups, sources across the country have told AFP. The Nigerian military killed at least 72 people, many of them civilians, in an airstrike on a crowded market in the northwestern state of Zamfara, a community leader told AFP, with some bodies “blown beyond recognition.” Amnesty International’s Nigeria chapter said _”at least 100 civilians” w_ere killed in the attack on the market, reportedly controlled by criminal gangs, while a…