U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee was, on Saturday, elected president of the Inter-American Development Bank, the region’s main economic development lender, making him the first U.S. citizen to lead the institution in its 61-year history. Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump’s senior Latin America adviser, told the bank’s governors before voting began that he would be “a passionate […]

Six women, one of whom was pregnant, were killed in a landmine blast in southern Mali on Friday, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the war-torn Sahel state. The women were travelling in an ambulance in the southern Sikasso region, which rode over a mine, regional public prosecutor Dramane Diarra said. The ambulance […]

The Moroccan coast guard intercepted 168 migrants this week who tried to reach Spain using makeshift crafts, including jet-skis and kayaks, the official MAP news agency reported Saturday. MAP, quoting a military source, said the migrants who had come from sub-Saharan Africa were intercepted on Wednesday and Thursday and brought back to Morocco after receiving […]

Hundreds marched in Angola’s capital Luanda on Saturday to protest against police brutality after a doctor caught breaching anti-coronavirus rules died in custody. Police claim Silvio Dala, 35, suffered a heart attack after he was arrested for driving without a face mask on September 1. But questions were raised after Dala’s body was sent to […]

Mali’s military junta on Saturday vowed to establish an 18-month transition government to return the country to civilian rule after last month’s coup, but key figures protested the army’s continued influence. A junta-appointed committee adopted a “transition charter” by acclamation at the close of talks on the handover of power, a move that paves the […]