here is your latest african news africa wide kiswahili becomes eu's working language
following a request from tanzania's vice president dr philip and pango the african union heads of
state and government have recognized kiswahili as one of the block's official working languages
dr pangos said that swahili is one of africa's most widely spoken languages
with almost 100 million people speaking it both inside and outside the continent
he said kiswahili is already in use in a number of communities including the east african community
the south and african development block and as a teaching language in a number of african
countries in addition he stated that unesco has designated july 7 as world kiswahili language day
mali mali's prime minister says france is seeking to partition the country
prime minister chogwel kokala maiga has accused france of working to partition his country through
french military involvement in the sahel in a new challenge to european diplomats in bamako
speaking to the congregation of envoys maiga said that after a time of elation when french soldiers
liberated northern mali from jihadist in 2013 and i quote the intervention turned into an operation
of a de facto partition of mali which consisted of giving up part of their territory where the
terrorists had time to take refuge and reorganize themselves to come back in force in 2014 and i
quote mayiga also accused the european taboka task force sent to help mali fight insurgents
of being created to divide the country in january a danish contingent of taboka that had arrived in
mali was asked to leave bukhina faso prosecutor seeks a 30-year term from kompari in sankara case
former president blaise kompaure of bikini faso is facing a 30-year prison sentence for his role in
the assassination of revolutionary leader thomas ankara sankara was slain in 1987 and a trial was
opened last year after french authorities agreed to diverge military recordings documenting his
death mr kompaure came to power in a coup in 1987 and governed for 27 years before being toppled
by popular uprising in 2014. he then escaped to ivory coast a neighboring country prosecutors have
sought a military court to find mr kompara guilty in his absence of an anti-court on attack on state
security concealment of a corpse and complicity in a murder end quote accusing him of being the main
perpetrator the former president was sankara's close friend and denies any role in his death
ghana ghanian government fines spanish firms six million dollars after deadly explosion
the ghanaian government says spanish company maxim corp in charge of a lorry that last month
exploded and killed 13 people violated storage and transport laws maxim corp has been fined
six million dollars the truck was transporting explosives owned by maxim to a gold mine when
it collided with a motorbike and blew up close to the town of bogoso the blast destroyed the
village of apietze injuring more than 100 people africa wide africa's free trade area to boost the
creative industry and create jobs for the youth africa's free trade area afc fta is expected to
boon for the creative sector and create jobs for the youth on first january 2021 trading under the
african continental free trade area kicked off the trade pack which seeks to create a
single market for goods and service and promote cross-border movement on capital and people
should boost intra-african trade currently at only 18 and regional integration it is also expected to
be a boon for the creative sector key players in the creative industry stayed as much when
they met in kigali ronda in 2019 even before the trade area launched africa's creative sector is
diverse and includes visual and performing arts crafts cultural festivals paintings sculptures
photography publishing music dance film radio design fashion video games digital animation
architecture and advertising according to the un conference on trade and development
the organization notes that the sector is helping fuel africa's economic growth
democratic republic of congo and uganda the international court of justice to rule on
a large democratic republic of congo uganda restitution lawsuit the un's top court will
rule in a long-running compensation fight between uganda and the democratic republic of congo which
is claiming billions of dollars over a brutal 1998-2000 war in 2005 the icj ruled that uganda
had to pay reparations to its vast central african neighbors for invading it in a five-year war that
left thousands of people dead king shasta is now claiming more than 11 billion for the occupation
of its volatile northern eastern italy region at the same time however the hague-based court also
said in 2005 that uganda should be compensated after its embassies in king shasta was attacked
and its diplomats abused negotiations on an amount due to a stalemate and in 2015 king
shasta asked for the case to go back before the judges following further postponement to find a
solution the icj also heard four independent experts to advise it on a possible amount
south africa rhino poaching in south africa is on the decline while rhino poaching in south
africa has decreased by 24 in 2019 compared to the pre-corvette period there has been an uptick
in poaching on private properties the minister of forestry fisheries and the environment said
in a statement that 451 rhinos were poached in south africa last year the 327 poached in
government reserves and 124 on private land according to data 209 rhinos were poached
on their horns in south african national park sun parks last year all in the kruger national
park a decrease from 247 rhinos poached in the national parks in 2020 according to the minister
the steady decline in rhino poaching in the park is related to an increase in the intensity
of anti-poaching activities a close working relationship between the police's endangered
species unit and the sandbox environmental crimes inspectorate has resulted in increased arrest and
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