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The warrant for Mark Bristow reported by local journalists represents an escalation in a tax dispute in the West African country, Authorities in Mali have issued an arrest warrant for Barrick Gold Corp. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/ABX-T/ chief executive officer Mark Bristow in a fresh escalation of a tax dispute in the West African [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Artillery shelling has hit Sudan's biggest displacement camp, killing eight people as a military siege tightens around a zone where thousands are already suffering [...]

Gunfire erupted in the capital, Juba, on Nov. 21 when security forces clashed with troops loyal to former intelligence chief Akol Kur, after he was fired in October, When the world’s newest country declared independence in 2011, the Canadian government was one of its most enthusiastic backers. John Baird, foreign affairs minister at the time, hailed the creation [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- U.S. President Joe Biden will push for a "deepening" of democracy in Angola next week when he visits the oil-rich African country where the [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Barrick Gold Corp. says four of its local employees have been 'unjustly imprisoned' in Mali in a second wave of arrests of its staff [...]

Pro-government fighters detained a convoy of Colombian smugglers who had armoured vehicles and anti-tank missiles, and UAE visa stamps from last month in their passports, The seizure in northern Darfur of a major weapons convoy, accompanied by Colombian smugglers with United Arab Emirates visas in their passports, is casting a new spotlight on foreign support [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- The seizure in northern Darfur of a major weapons convoy, accompanied by Colombian smugglers with United Arab Emirates visas in their passports, is casting [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Commonwealth leaders are pushing ahead with an attempt to bring Zimbabwe back into the organization despite a report by its own observers that casts [...]

Demonstrations against Mozambique’s ruling party after its victory in the national election are the latest sign of growing unhappiness with the long-dominant liberation movements, Police have killed nearly 50 protesters in Mozambique over the past three weeks in an attempt to crush a prolonged wave of demonstrations and strikes that have paralyzed the country [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Police have killed nearly 50 protesters in Mozambique over the past three weeks in an attempt to crush a prolonged wave of demonstrations and [...]

Byline: PAUL WALDIE; Staff LONDON -- The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned amid allegations he did little to stop a Canadian-born church leader from abusing as many as [...]

Trump’s election victory has breathed new life into Somaliland’s quest for independence, with some conservative loyalists suggesting it could emerge as a key element in his Africa policy, One of the unheralded winners of the U.S. election could be a remote region of six million people on the northeastern tip of Africa that has been fighting for recognition [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- One of the unheralded winners of the U.S. election could be a remote region of six million people on the northeastern tip of Africa [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Canada will expand its diplomatic presence in Africa and appoint two special envoys to work on peace and security issues in a continent where [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Authoritarian regimes in Africa are celebrating Donald Trump's election victory, seeing it as the potential end of U.S. sanctions against them, but analysts are [...]

Canadian embassies announced for Zambia and Benin, and Ottawa will appoint special envoys for Africa and for the war-torn Sahel region, Canada will expand its diplomatic presence in Africa and appoint two special envoys to work on peace and security issues in a continent where conflicts and great-power tensions are intensifying, [...]

Politicians in Zimbabwe, Uganda and Sudan – all of which have faced U.S. sanctions against their senior officials because of alleged corruption or human-rights abuses – were among the first to congratulate Mr. Trump, Authoritarian regimes in Africa are celebrating Donald Trump’s election victory, seeing it as the potential end of U.S. sanctions against them, but analysts are warning that Mr. Trump is likely [...]

The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which has governed the African country since its independence from Britain in 1966, tumbled to fourth place, One of Africa’s longest-ruling parties has suffered a landslide defeat in a historic election in Botswana, the latest sign of mounting discontent among voters in a region where postcolonial liberation [...]

António Guterres says conditions ‘do not exist’ for peacekeepers in Sudan, where conflict has displaced more than 11 million and caused as many as 150,000 deaths, Calls for a peacekeeping force to protect Sudan’s besieged population are gaining momentum among experts and activists worldwide, despite an attempt by the United Nations Secretary-General to fend off the [...]

Videos on social media showed scores of dead bodies wrapped in funeral shrouds in one of the villages in Gezira state, A new surge of mass killings and sexual violence has left hundreds of civilians dead in dozens of Sudanese villages in a farming region south of Khartoum, civil-society groups say. [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Mozambique's ruling party has extended its half-century monopoly on political power, winning a landslide victory in official results of an election tainted by killings [...]

According to the results announced by Mozambique authorities, Frelimo boosted its parliamentary majority to 195 of the 250 seats, giving it control of more than three-quarters of the chamber, Mozambique’s ruling party has extended its half-century monopoly on political power, winning a landslide victory in official results of an election tainted by killings and vote-rigging allegations. The party, Frelimo, [...]

President Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon for four decades, disappeared from public view in early September, In a shared taxi in Cameroon this week, a man asked his fellow passengers whether they thought the 91-year-old president, Paul Biya, had finally returned to the country after a [...]

More than 100 Russian soldiers are now deployed in Equatorial Guinea to protect the world’s longest-ruling dictator, President Teodoro Obiang, There are growing signs that Russian troops have arrived in the secretive oil-rich country of Equatorial Guinea, the latest in a series of authoritarian African states that have turned to [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- There are growing signs that Russian troops have arrived in the secretive oil-rich country of Equatorial Guinea, the latest in a series of authoritarian [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- A fter 100 days in power, South Africa's coalition government has boosted the national economy and won support from foreign investors, but it now [...]

At the local level the coalition has fallen into disarray, triggering upheaval in city governments that are increasingly struggling with water shortages and deteriorating infrastructure, After 100 days in power, South Africa’s coalition government has boosted the national economy and won support from foreign investors, but it now faces a growing threat from internal revolts [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Moscow is pushing for another expansion of the fast-growing BRICS group of countries at a summit in Russia this month, touting the organization as [...]

As many as 10 additional countries could be approved to join the nine-member bloc this month – potentially including NATO member Turkey, Moscow is pushing for another expansion of the fast-growing BRICS group of countries at a summit in Russia this month, touting the organization as the emerging “global majority” at a [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- With most of his opponents disqualified or jailed, Tunisian President Kais Saied appears headed to an easy victory in an election that could represent [...]

A survey on Tunisia’s national television channel suggests that Kais Saied will win 89 per cent of the vote, With most of his opponents disqualified or jailed, Tunisian President Kais Saied appears headed to an easy victory in an election that could represent the end of the democratic era [...]

Six months after its introduction, Zimbabwe’s new currency, the ZiG, is on its deathbed and authorities abruptly devalued it by 43 per cent in late September, In a jingle aired endlessly on Zimbabwean state television, an all-star singing group seems ecstatic about the country’s latest currency, known as the ZiG. “Everywhere you go, ZiG ho, ZiG [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Four senior employees of Barrick Gold Corp. have reportedly been arrested in Mali in the latest sign of rising tensions between the Toronto-based mining [...]

The four Malian employees of Barrick were arrested for alleged financial crimes, according to a report by Reuters, Four senior employees of Barrick Gold Corp. have reportedly been arrested in https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/mali/in the latest sign of rising tensions between the Toronto-based mining company and the authoritarian military regime that [...]

Maxim Shugalei’s arrest suggests he may have been caught up in the struggle between Russia and the United States for geopolitical leverage in Chad, A Russian political strategist has been arrested in Chad, the latest twist in a checkered African career that has seen him imprisoned in Libya, targeted by Canadian sanctions and glorified [...]

Washington has praised Angola as a diplomatic partner, especially for its role as a peace mediator in negotiations to resolve the long-running conflict in eastern Congo, U.S. President https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/joe-biden/ has chosen Angola as the destination for his much-delayed first visit in office to Africa, signalling that Washington sees the oil-rich country as crucial to its economic [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- A Russian political strategist has been arrested in Chad, the latest twist in a checkered African career that has seen him imprisoned in Libya, [...]

Rwanda, the first African country to sign onto Canada’s campaign against child soldiers, has been secretly using its military to send children for combat in eastern Congo, a United Nations report says, Rwanda, the first African country to sign onto Canada’s campaign against child soldiers, has been secretly using its own military to recruit and deploy children for combat in eastern Congo, [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Rwanda, the first African country to sign onto Canada's campaign against child soldiers, has been secretly using its own military to recruit and deploy [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- With the death toll rising dramatically in Sudan's embattled Darfur region, U.S. President Joe Biden is under pressure to push for a halt in [...]

Human-rights groups have warned that a genocide is under way in Darfur for the second time in 20 years, fuelled by weapons from the UAE and other countries, With the death toll rising dramatically in Sudan’s embattled Darfur region, U.S. President Joe Biden is under pressure to push for a halt in alleged arms shipments by a key [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- An Islamist militia with close links to al-Qaeda has launched an audacious assault on Mali's capital, attacking a military police academy and the airport [...]

Not one person has made it to Canada in the nearly seven months since Ottawa initiated the residency program, Seven months after the launch of a federal program to help Canadians rescue their relatives from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/sudan/ brutal war, not one of their family members has managed to reach Canada. [...]

The co-ordinated dawn attack on two key security targets is the latest sign of the Islamist insurgency expanding in southern Mali and moving closer to the capital, far beyond the traditional rebel strongholds, An Islamist militia with close links to al-Qaeda has launched an audacious assault on Mali’s capital, attacking a military police academy and the airport base of the Russian troops who [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- Seven months after the launch of a federal program to help Canadians rescue their relatives from Sudan's brutal war, not one of their family [...]

African countries battling outbreak of infectious disease, with nearly 25,000 cases and 643 deaths reported across the continent this year, Canada is considering a donation of up to 200,000 doses of mpox vaccines from its large domestic stockpile to help support the global battle against the fast-growing outbreak of the [...]

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s mpox response plan contains no budget for vaccine procurement. Instead it counts on donations to fill the need, With costs soaring and prices sky-high, Africa’s leading health agency is hoping that donations will provide the four million vaccine doses it needs to fight the rapidly escalating mpox outbreak [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- With costs soaring and prices skyhigh, Africa's leading health agency is hoping that donations will provide the four million vaccine doses it needs to [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK; Staff JOHANNESBURG -- After 16 months of massacres and war crimes, Sudan's besieged civilians need to be protected by an arms embargo and an international peacekeeping force, [...]