Africa

Rescue operations are underway in Sudan as dozens of miners remain trapped under mine rubble.

Malian officials say the rationing system will ensure a more equitable fuel distribution among consumers.

The president’s brother, Tene Birahima Ouattara, will hold the newly created role alongside the defence portfolio.

The materiel include drones, helicopters, platforms, spare parts and support systems, Information Minister Ibrahim Idris said.

The world is not reverting to total chaos; it is reorganising. In that reorganisation, regional actors and youthful societies will shape the next decade of global politics far more than many analysts appreciate.

Museveni, 81, won a seventh term in office with 72 percent of the vote to Wine’s 25 percent, according to the Electoral Commission.

President Yoweri Museveni secured 71.6 % of the vote in the 15 January presidential elections to win a seventh term.

Gauteng police confirmed that two more learners died in hospital in the early hours of Thursday, bringing the death toll from the crash to 14.

Africa plans to play a role in shaping the emerging global system, Ghanaian President John Mahama said on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, urging the continent to rely on its initiative.

Central African leaders ordered urgent fiscal and monetary measures to steady the region’s weakening economies on Thursday, including repatriation of state assets and export revenues held abroad.