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Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Members of Sudan’s powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces prevented protest leaders from addressing journalists on Saturday, the eve of a mass rally against the ruling generals, protest organisers said. Sudan’s umbrella protest movement, the Alliance for Freedom and Change, has called for a “million man” march …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | A top Sudanese general Saturday warned he will not tolerate any vandalism at a planned mass protest, but insisted the ruling generals would hand power to a civilian administration. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s warning came as the country’s umbrella protest movement called for a “million-man” march …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP |  Driven from power after months of nationwide protests, Sudan’s former strongman Omar al-Bashir has been held in the capital’s grim Kober prison on a series of charges filed by prosecutors. Those charges range from corruption to killing protesters, and on June 16 Bashir appeared before a …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | A prominent Sudanese protest leader has voiced fears of more violence against demonstrators at rallies this week, insisting the June 3 “massacre” at a Khartoum sit-in had been planned. Protest leaders have called for mass rallies against the military on Sunday, the first such nationwide call …

Cotonou, Benin | AFP |  The last time that cartographers mapped Benin, Elvis Presley had just released “Jailhouse Rock,” the Soviets had launched Sputnik — and the country was still a colony named French Dahomey. Things in the West African state have sure changed since 1957, and the old maps were …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP |  During the day, Gadoora checks his patients at a clinic near Khartoum, but at night he locks himself in his room rapping songs which echo the sentiments of Sudan’s “revolution”. “The revolution broke the long-standing wall of fear,” said Gadoora. “Songs have become much more daring …

eMalahleni, South Africa | AFP |  Tumelo has again lost several days at school because of sickness. “My eyes are burning. Sometimes I can’t breathe,” she coughs. “The doc said there is nothing we can do,” says her mother Nono Ledwaba. “We need to take her out of eMalahleni. When she …

Why government policies should support and protect the growing number of freelance or gig workers  | Olga Morawczynski and David Porteous | The growth of digital platforms in Africa could offer new opportunities to bridge the current gap between often-insecure informal work and formal employment. Portable benefits, which move with …

Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Sudan’s veteran opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi rejected on Wednesday a call for nationwide mass demonstrations against the country’s ruling generals on June 30. The remarks by the head of National Umma Party come as tension between the generals and leaders from the umbrella protest movement, the …

Moscow, Russia | Isaac Khisa | As part of the Russia–Africa Economic Conference in Moscow, Russia, the Roscongress Foundation, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), and the Russian Export Center (REC) on June.21 signed an agreement to cooperate on establishing effective communication between expert communities and business circles in the Russian Federation and …