Africa Cup of Nations: Nigeria edge out South Africa on penalties to set up ‘best losers’ final with Ivory Coast
South Africa will rue missed chances in the 90 minutes, not least in the dying seconds when right back Khuliso Mudau fired over the bar with the goal gaping, but must now settle for a place in the bronze-medal match on Saturday.
West African economic bloc wants Senegal’s President Sall to restore elections calendar
Senegal’s presidential election has never been postponed. The constitution does empower the Constitutional Council, the highest election authority, to reschedule the vote in certain circumstances including “the death, permanent incapacity or withdrawal” of candidates.
Africa Cup of Nations: Sports and music rivalry hits fever pitch as Nigeria warns citizens in South Africa to be wary of xenophobia
The Nigerian High Commission in South Africa said in a statement that some South Africans were making “inflammatory online comments” that mostly “consist of veiled threats” against Nigerians.
Senegal’s image as beacon of democracy in Africa dented after MPs delay polls by 11 months
Political tensions have run high in Senegal for at least a year. Authorities also cut internet access from cellphones in June 2023 when supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko clashed with security forces. Sonko is one of two opposition leaders whom election authorities disqualified from the final list of presidential candidates this month.
Medical charity MSF warns 13 children die daily at camp in Sudan for displaced people
MSF says that Zamzam, a camp of more than 300,000 people, was originally formed by people fleeing ethnically targeted violence in the region in 2003. However, since war broke out between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces in April 2023, camp residents have been cut off from vital humanitarian aid and medical care, the group said in a statement.
Emerging market debt sales hit January record despite elusive flows, will rise to $165b this year
According to JPMorgan calculations, adding coupons to maturities and comparing to gross issuance should have left dedicated emerging markets hard currency funds with a $78 billion cash pile to invest over the past two years. But taking into account outflows, that would have shrunk to just $8 billion, the bank said in a recent note to clients.
Rethinking African education policy: Education is meaningless unless you understand the vast expanse of life, its sorrows and joys
We know “an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he or she knows absolutely everything about nothing” about the world about him or her.
Grammys 2024: South African Tyla bags best African performance category to underline social media role in African music on global charts
Tyla beat Nigerian stars: Davido, Burna Boy, Asake and Ayra Starr to win a Grammy for Best African Music Performance category. The Water hitmaker’s win has revived the rivalry between Nigerians and South Africans on social media ahead of the semifinal on Wednesday, February 7.
Namibia president and anti-apartheid activist Hage Geingob dies, succeeded by deputy Nangolo Mbumba
Hage Geingob leaves behind a middle-income country fighting to push economic growth above three per cent following a pandemic-era slowdown and reverse racial inequalities left over from colonialism and annexation by South Africa’s former white minority government.
Senegalese President Sall calls off vote three weeks to poll citing unspecified ‘electoral issues’
Ndiack Fall, law professor at Dakar’s Cheikh Anta Diop University, noted that, according to the constitution, Sall’s mandate ends on April 2 after which the president of parliament should be in charge if the election has still not been held.
