C'est jusqu'aujourd'hui le premier et seul film africain à avoir obtenu la palme d'or au prestigieux Festival de Cannes en 1975.50 ans après, le film "Chronique des années de braise" du réalisateur Mohamed-Lakhdar Hamina est de retour au cinéma en version restaurée. Son fils Malick Lakhdar Hamina était l'invité du journal de l'Afrique.

Featured | 28 seconds ago Mr. Martin Nwabueze, the co-founder of Tilova for Africa (TFA), a non-profit, non-governmental and advocacy organisation, is reinventing charity by empowering vulnerable communities, strengthening small businesses and enhancing livelihoods. But beyond his work in healthcare and humanitarian circles, the Anambra State born and US-based pharmacist is leading a powerful conversation about Nigeria?s future, one not centred on political manifestos or oil wealth, but on disruptive innovation, social reorientation and shared national identity. As one who believes that the key to Nigeria?s rebirth lies in fostering ingenuity, breaking free from divisive...

Nigeria | 20 seconds ago Bashir Ojulari?s rumoured resignation is unfortunate, writes ABDULGANNY IBRAHEEM Since his appointment on 2nd April this year, perceptive watchers of Nigeria?s oil sector knew very well that the new Group CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd. Bashir Bayo Ojulari, is in for a strenuous tenure. And this envisaged strain is on all conceivable fronts, socio-political, economic, and geopolitical. ?In all these, the mighty and powerful, the pretentious ?owners? of this country, are up in arms, as usual, against a consummate technocrat they perceive as an ?outsider?. ?Bashir Ojulari?s rumoured forceful resignation last weekend, following a...

Le premier août, un convoi de l'Africa Corps est tombé dans une embuscade tendue par des jihadistes à proximité de la ville malienne de Ténenkou, dans la région de Mopti. Pour la première fois, des images filmées par les groupes jihadistes montrent des membres de ce groupe paramilitaire russe venu remplacer Wagner au Mali morts au combat.

The plane had taken off from the capital Nairobis Wilson Airport and was destined for Somaliland.

Too often in South Sudan, women are excluded from political and peacebuilding opportunities, despite their critical importance in advancing peace and security in the conflict-ridden country. To help women increase their visibility and secure funding for peacebuilding initiatives, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan hosted 30 women at a strategic communications workshop in Wau, Western Bahr El...

With violence intensifying in South Sudan, more than 33,000 refugees have fled to northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In May, Meacute;decins Sans Frontiegrave;res (MSF) teams launched emergency activities to provide lifesaving medical care to a community facing crisis. ldquo;We saw people shooting guns. Then we saw planes shooting people from the sky,rdquo; says Blessing Halima, a refugee from Morobo County, South Sudan, who recently fled to Adi, northern DRC, with her six children. ldquo;They began killing people and stealing everything. They took my husband. Thatrsquo;s why we ran.rdquo; Blessing Halima is not alone. In April, Atay Rose travelled for several days through...

Download logo The ECOWAS Commission and the World Bank, through the West Africa Unique Identification for Regional Integration and Inclusion (WURI) programme, convened a regional validation workshop from 24 to 27 June 2025 in Accra, Ghana. The workshop brought together foundational identity (fID) agencies and functional service providers from WURI participating countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cocirc;te drsquo;Ivoire, Niger and Togo), alongside representatives from ECOWAS Member States, to review and validate two strategic documents: the Stakeholders Assessment, Engagement and Management Strategy, and the Foundational Identification Systems Interoperability and Mutual Recognition of ID...

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Nigeria | 50 minutes ago *Seeks urgent reform to promote accountability, fairness By Hammed Shittu in Ilorin Key stakeholders in Kwara State have expressed deep concern over the current tax structure in the country, saying it is stifling economic activities and alienating citizens from governance. Speaking in Ilorin, the state capital, on Wednesday at a consultative meeting on tax justice, organised by the Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative (BBYDI), with support from CISLAC and funded by Christian Aid Nigeria; market leaders, civil society actors and academics, the stakeholders said that the current tax system has remained burdensome and...

Seven Ethiopian migrants died of hunger and thirst after their boat broke down while en route from Somalia to Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday. In a statement, the UN...

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) of Libya...

Nigeria | 15 seconds ago Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu has extended his deepest condolences to President John Mahama, the government and...

Nigeria | 33 seconds ago Folalumi Alaran in Abuja The Coordinator of Gbenga Hashim Vanguard in the North-west, Hon. Aminu Bala Wudilawa, has called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to reject blackmail and pressures to hand over the party?s 2027 presidential ticket to any regional political warlord under the pretext of zoning or power rotation. According to...

Nigeria | 27 seconds ago The stock market continued on a positive note on Wednesday, as performance indices grew by 0.70 per cent amid increased buying interest and bargain hunting. Similarly, the All-Share Index (ASI) also increased by 1,017.49 points, or 0.70 per cent, to settle at 145,813.86 as against Tuesday?s 144,796.37. The gain was...

Nigeria | 38 seconds ago The Federal Government has announced plans to install gantries on flyovers to prevent damage from overloaded trucks and vehicles that disregard safety standards. The Minister of Works, David Umahi, at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja, said the move was to preserve road infrastructure in the country. This initiative, he said, is part of a broader crackdown on overloaded trucks that are causing structural damage to bridges and flyovers across the country The move comes after a recent incident at the Keffi Flyover, where a container-laden trailer exceeding the permitted clearance height caused...

Starting Aug. 8, ?Sudan, Remember Us? is playing in theaters across USA and Canada. Very early in our interview, filmmaker Hind Meddeb tells me she is not a journalist anymore. Newsroom politics, the endless harping on ?objectivity? and the reporting bias when writing about the Middle East, she said, has steered her away. Born to the poet Abdelwahab Meddeb and the linguist Amina Maya Khelladi, Meddeb grew up in France but spent her life travelling between Tunisia, Morocco, Syria and in places ?on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea.? Since walking away from journalism, she has been making films: About a punk-hip-hop hybrid music movement in Egypt, about civil resistance in Tunisia and...

Nigeria?s First Exploration and Petroleum Development Co. is eyeing gas exploration in East Africa, reflecting a wider push by the read more Nigerian First EP eyes Tanzanian gas in broader push for growth ......

Download logo Intra-African Trade Fair 2025 (IATF2025), Africarsquo;s premier trade and investment forum, is excited to announce Dangote Group as an official Premier Partner. As one of Africarsquo;s leading industrial conglomerates, with over 18 subsidiaries operating across a wide spectrum of sectors critical to the continentrsquo;s economic transformation - including cement, fertilisers, petrochemicals, refined petroleum products, sugar, salt, and logistics, Dangote Group will be a key partner for IATF at its fourth edition to be held in Algiers, Algeria from 4-10 September 2025. The biennial IATF, hosted by the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria and organised by Afreximbank in...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has suspended operations in two South Sudanese counties for at least six weeks after a second staffer was kidnapped in less than a week, the medical...

Nigeria | 30 minutes ago Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) and Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, has stated that the nationwide electronic membership registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will commence soon in ?full force?. Uzondinma gave the assurance on Tuesday after inspecting the facilities alongside the Governors of Kogi...

Nigeria | 49 minutes ago L-R : Chief Asuquo Ekpenyong, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Councillor Zafar Iqbal, Governor of Cross River State, Senator Bassey Edet Otu, wife of the governor, Bishop Eyoanwan Bassey Edet Otu at the CRID 2025 International Convention in Birmingham, United Kingdom.... Cross River indigenes in the Diaspora, last weekend, converged on Birmingham, United Kingdom, in what was clearly a new chapter of collaboration with the state government at the maiden edition of the Diaspora Convention. With the theme #8216;Diaspora Contribution to the Development and Sustainability of Cross River State,#8217; the convention signaled a pivotal moment for the state?s international...

Nigeria | 24 minutes ago Vice-President Kashim Shettima has said President Bola Tinubu holds traditional rulers in the country in high esteem, recognising that they are the custodians of cultural heritage. Shettima made the assertion during an interactive meeting with traditional rulers in Ondo State on Tuesday in Akure. He said that the president recognised the support and cooperation of the traditional rulers across the country. ?President Bola Tinubu holds the traditional rulers in the highest esteem. ?He is part of you and he respects you; he values and cherishes you, our traditional leaders who are the custodians of our cultural heritage and close to people in the grassroots. ?The...

Rwanda has agreed to take up to 250 migrants deported from the US, the government announced on Tuesday. Rwanda joins African countries Eswatini and South Sudan in agreeing to take in deportees since the Trump administration turned to the African continent as a destination for...

In a dramatic move last week, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced the selection of its own prime minister and presidential council to compete with and directly challenge the legitimacy of the Sudanese government. News of the new parallel government comes days before a new round of peace talks was expected to begin in Washington last week. Although neither of the two civil war belligerents were going to attend, it was to be the latest effort by the United States to broker an end to the war in Sudan ? and the first major effort under Trump?s presidency. But the United States, which was planning to host the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE),...

Deal follows deportations to South Sudan and Eswatini despite concerns about international law breaches...

GENEVA/PORT SUDAN -- This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Sudan Representative Sheldon Yett - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva ......

African Energy Week (AEW) 2025: Invest in African Energies is proud to announce that Seyi Oladapo, Group CFO of Pan Ocean and the Newcross Companies, will be joining the continentrsquo;s premier energy event in Cape Town. His participation brings one of Nigeriarsquo;s most strategically positioned private energy players to the forefront of conversations on upstream growth, local capacity building and unlocking new investment across Africarsquo;s hydrocarbon value chain. As one of...

UN peacekeepers patrol the street in Juba, South Sudan on Feb. 12, 2025. ......