Catalan authorities will not follow orders from the Spanish government if Madrid moves to reassert control over the region, a senior official says. A regional government spokesman told the BBC that the central government was acting against the will of Catalans. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has announced plans to […]
The Spanish Foreign Minister, Alfonso Dastis, has denied that his government’s move to reassert control over Catalonia amounts to a “coup”. The speaker of the Catalan parliament, Carme Forcadell, called measures announced by the government on Saturday a “de facto coup d’état”. “If anyone has attempted a coup, it is […]
Global powers, including key US allies, have said they will stand by the Iran nuclear deal which US President Donald Trump has threatened to tear apart. Mr Trump said on Friday that he would stop signing off on the agreement. The UK, France and Germany responded that the pact was […]
A cargo plane has crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast, close to Abidjan airport, killing four people and injuring six. The wreckage of the turboprop plane, which was carrying ten people, was swept toward a beach where rescuers treated surviving crewmen on the sand. All four of the dead […]
The African fashion industry is, today, celebrating the recognition of one of its leading figures, African Fashion International (AFI) Founder and CEO Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe, who has received the Fashion 4 Development’s inaugural Franca Sozzani Award at the United Nations in New York. Dr Moloi-Motsepe was recognised for her […]
Kenyan judges have critcised the “veiled threats” made by President Uhuru Kenyatta after the judiciary overturned his election on the ground that it was flawed. Calling it “an assault on the judiciary”, the Kenya Magistrates and Judges Association (KMJA) late on Saturday asked people to ignore “political rhetoric”. “The […]
More than 100,000 people have fled their homes because of major flooding in the central state of Benue in Nigeria, according to President Muhammadu Buhari. “I have received with great concern reports of the flooding in Benue state, displacing, from early estimates, more than 100,000 people,” Buhari wrote on […]
