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Mali’s ousted president Keita dies at 76

YoopyaJan 17, 2022June 19, 20230

Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was ousted by the military in 2020 after a turbulent seven-year rule, has died, officials said on Sunday.

Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s moral conscience, dies at 90

YoopyaDec 27, 2021June 13, 20230

Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday

S.Africa’s last apartheid president FW de Klerk dies

YoopyaNov 11, 2021June 13, 20230

FW de Klerk, South Africa’s last white president, who freed anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela from jail, died on Thursday aged 85, his foundation announced. De Klerk

Key defendant in Burkina’s Sankara trial pleads not guilty

YoopyaNov 9, 2021June 13, 20230

General Gilbert Diendere, a key defendant in a trial over the 1987 assassination of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, pleaded not guilty at the

Over 90 killed in Sierra Leone fuel tanker explosion

YoopyaNov 6, 2021June 13, 20230

A massive fireball sparked by a fuel tanker explosion killed 92 people in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, the West African country’s vice president said on

US orders diplomats out of Ethiopia as rebels approach capital

YoopyaNov 6, 2021June 13, 20230

The US said on Saturday it had ordered all of its non-essential diplomats and their families to leave Ethiopia, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urged

Africa’s largest film festival kicks off in Burkina Faso

YoopyaOct 16, 2021June 13, 20230

Africa’s largest film festival kicks off Saturday in Burkina Faso amid both the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing jihadi insurgency in the West African nation

U.S. donates 17 million J&J doses to African Union

YoopyaOct 16, 2021June 13, 20230

President Joe Biden told visiting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday that the United States will make a one-time donation of more than 17 million

Burkina Faso starts trial on killing of ex-leader Sankara

YoopyaOct 12, 2021June 13, 20230

A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday started the trial of 14 people including former President Blaise Compaore for the killing of influential leftist

After 34 years, Sankara murder trial begins in Burkina Faso

YoopyaOct 12, 2021June 13, 20230

The trial of 14 people accused of plotting the assassination of Burkina Faso’s former president Thomas Sankara started on Monday, 34 years after he was