Tenino had become a ghost town, and small businesses were struggling to survive amid the coronavirus pandemic, so local officials revived an unconventional idea from the last century: printing the town’s own currency on thin planks of wood. “There was no trading, no selling, and the city streets were dead. They looked the same at […]

Protesters in Mali’s capital Bamako blocked two of the city’s main bridges and hurled stones at the parliament Friday, AFP journalists said, during a protest against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Thousands gathered in a central square to demand the president resign over the country’s long-running jihadist conflict and economic woes. They then rallied outside the parliament […]

Sudan’s highest governing body Friday ratified a law criminalising female genital mutilation, a widespread ritual in the African country, the justice ministry announced. The sovereign council, comprising military and civilian figures, approved a series of laws including criminalisation of the age-old practice known as FGM or genital cutting that “undermines the dignity of women”, the […]

American Airlines Group Inc (AAL.O) has threatened to cancel some of its orders for Boeing Co’s (BA.N) grounded 737 MAX jets unless the planemaker helps secure funding for them, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. American Airlines has struggled to secure financing for 17 jets it had expected Boeing to deliver this year due […]

Protesters staged another large demonstration in Mali’s capital Bamako on Friday after a coalition opposed to President Ibrahim Keita rejected concessions aimed at resolving a months-long political stand-off. Thousands of protesters filled the city’s Independence Square, chanting and waving banners that said: “Enough is Enough” and “IBK, clear off”, referring to the president. It was […]