Africa (except North Africa)

DAKAR, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Senegal began legislative elections at 8 a.m., local time and GMT, Sunday, to elect 165 new deputies to the National Assembly for a five-year term across national territory and abroad.

Some 7 million Senegalese people, including 300,000 living abroad, are expected to vote until 6 p.m., in the 15,500 polling booths at 7,000 polling places open for them.

The vote takes place under the supervision of national and international observers, including those from the Economic Community of West African States.

DAKAR, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Senegal kicked off legislative elections at 8 a.m. Sunday (local time and GMT) to elect 165 new deputies to the National Assembly for a five-year term across national territory and abroad.

Some seven million Senegalese people, including 300,000 living abroad, are expected to vote until 6 p.m., in the 15,500 polling stations and 7,000 polling places open for them.

The vote takes place under the supervision of national and international observers, including those from the Economic Community of West African States.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa says the fight against corruption and work to improve the country’s faltering economy have been endorsed by the ruling African National Congress party in order to improve its declining electoral support.

Ramaphosa on Sunday addressed the close of the party’s national policy conference where it discussed what is must do to address the country’s challenges, including the high poverty levels, 35% unemployment rate and rising inflation.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russian, French and American leaders are crisscrossing Africa to win support for their positions on the war in Ukraine, waging what some say is the most intense competition for influence on the continent since the Cold War.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and French President Emmanuel Macron are each visiting several African countries this week. Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, went to Kenya and Somalia last week. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, will go to Ghana and Uganda next week.

27 July 2022; MEMO: South Africa has expressed its concerns over the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and a "significant portions of the West Bank", calling on the UN to class Israel as an Apartheid State.

WINDHOEK, July 27 (Xinhua) -- The Namibian Electronic Sports Association (NESA) and the Korea eSports Association (KeSPA) will be entering into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further the development of esports and international programs for esports athletes in both countries, an executive said Wednesday.

This will be Namibia's first entry into an agreement with a fellow esports association and is a monumental step in developing esports in Namibia, NESA spokesperson, Salome de Bruyn said in an announcement.

DOUALA, Cameroon (AP) — Off the coast of West Africa, the Trondheim is a familiar sight: a soccer field-sized ship, plying the waters from Nigeria to Mauritania as it pulls in tons of mackerel and sardines — and flying the red, yellow and green flag of Cameroon.

But aside from the flag, there is almost nothing about the Trondheim that is Cameroonian.

NAKASONGOLA (Uganda), July 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday to launch Uganda’s second armoured vehicle factory in Nakasongola. 

The factory was built by the United Arab Emirates firm, Streit Group, in partnership with the National Enterprise Corporation (NEC), the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) commercial arm that produces goods and services, the cars are for both civilians and military.  

GOMA, July 26 (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and about 50 wounded during a second day of violent anti-United Nations protests in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Tuesday, a government spokesman said.

A Reuters reporter saw U.N. peacekeepers shoot two demonstrators dead as protesters threw rocks, vandalized and set fire to U.N. buildings.

Some stormed the houses of U.N. workers who were evacuated from the city in a convoy of vehicles escorted by the army, another reporter said.

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LOUISIANA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia is celebrating two major anniversaries this year — 200 years ago freed slaves from the U.S. arrived here and 25 years later they declared the country to be independent.

Amid the festivities for Independence Day on Tuesday, many Liberians say the West African country’s promise is unfulfilled and too many of its people still live in poverty.

“Liberia has gone backward 50 or more years,” says Richard Cooper, a 67-year-old farmer in Louisiana township, outside the capital, Monrovia.