here is your latest african news africa-wide afghan highlights burkina faso beat 10-man gabon
and penalties to reach the quarter-finals in the africa cup of nations in cameroon following a 1-1
draw over the weekend tunisia upset 10-man nigeria to set up a quarterfinal tie against bukhina faso
tunisia nation cup winners in 2004 will face burkina faso in the last eight on saturday
january 29th africa wide china is using government buildings to spy on africa a new report says
a shocking new report underscores that china's two-decade-long blitz
of engagement in africa has likely given it extensive surveillance access to the continent
chinese companies all of which are legally obliged to help the ccp gather intelligence
have built at least 186 government buildings in africa and at least 14 sensitive intergovernmental
telecommunication networks in addition beijing is documented to have also donated computers to
at least 35 african governments the report says particular mention of beijing's apparent use of
private companies given that all chinese internet companies are subject to their
leadership mandates that they cooperate with the government to reduce of anonymity bukina faso
shorts heard near the presidential palace shorts have been heard near the presidential palace in
burkina faso's capital amid a mutiny by soldiers gunfire has also been heard at several barracks
in ogat dugu with soldiers demanding the sacking of military chiefs and more resources to fight
militants hundreds of people came out in support of the troops forcing authorities to introduce a
nighttime curfew the government say the crisis had been contained it dismissed rumors of a new
co-attempt just over a week after 11 soldiers were detained for allegedly plotting a coup
it is a larger sign of growing discontent with president rock kabura's government over
its failure to quell the insurgency that has affected the west african states since 2015
guinea head of guinea's ruling military appoints members of the transitional council
the head of guinea's military colonel mahmadi dumboya over the weekend named the members of
the national transitional council ntc the 81 member legislative body will decide when civilians
will return to power civil society activist dr kanso ko roma was appointed president of the ntc
the members of the ntc represent all the country's social professional organization
as well as political parties colonel dombuya who became transitional president on october
1st 2021 after overthrowing president alfa conde has pledged to hand over power to civilians after
elections but has not yet mentioned a deadline for this transition the economic community of
west african states echoers insisted on the need to respect the six-month deadline for holding
elections and urges the guinean authorities to quickly submit a timetable for this
south africa south africa launches first made in africa satellites
south africa has launched its first satellite constellation developed entirely in the continent
of africa three locally produced nanosatellite which made up the country's first maritime domain
awareness satellite constellation mda sat will launch from cape canaveral in the united states
as part of american aerospace companies spacex transporter 3 mission transporter 3 spacex's
third dedicated rideshare mission carried a total of 105 spacecraft from various organizations
and governments including cubesats microsats pocket cubes and orbital transfer vehicles
african sahara snow falls in sahara desert for the fifth time in 40 years new images of the
sahara desert blanketed in snow have appeared this week on social media the sahara is the world's
driest desert and one of the hottest places on earth the numerous desert spans 11 countries
algeria chad egypt libya mali mauritania morocco nigel west sahara sudan and tunisia sand dunes can
reach up to 180 metres high and water is cast in the region the images captured earlier in january
by photographer karim boychata reveal snow and ice near the town of isafra in northwest algeria the
region has experienced no just a handful of times in the past 40 years the only previous recorded
incidences of snow in ice sephora were in 1979 2017 2018 and 2021. one scientific study suggests
extreme cold weather events could be attributed to actic warming so when recent photos showed the
dunes covered in beautiful icy patterns it might have left you wondering how is this even possible
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