Baroness Patricia Scotland will remain the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat for the next four years after beating Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs and Trade minister Kamina Johnson. Ms Scotland won with 27 votes and Ms Johnson got 24, sources told The […]

Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos is admitted to a hospital in Spain, where he is receiving treatment for an unspecified illness. A statement issued by the office of President João Lourenço on Friday said his predecessor was in […]

Gunmen have kidnapped 22 farmers from their fields just outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja, local police said Friday, in the latest wave of mass abductions in the country. Heavily-armed criminals known locally as bandits frequently attack rural areas with poor security […]

Ethiopia on Thursday described fuel shortages in the war-wracked Tigray region as a “myth” and accused Tigrayan rebels of seeking to launch a new offensive. Humanitarian agencies have said the fuel Addis Ababa is allowing them to deliver to the […]

An array of presidents and prime ministers continued to descend on Rwanda Thursday from around the world for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson jetted in on Thursday and held a meeting […]

Mozambique police arrested Wednesday five Somalis suspected to be members of a network of kidnappers and drug traffickers in the coastal city of Beira in Sofala Province. According to the police spokesperson Daniel Macuacua, the Somalis were holding fake identification […]

Tanzania Wednesday said it would tackle “illegal immigrants” in the northeastern area of Loliondo, where it has alleged Kenyan Maasai pastoralists are supporting opponents to a planned wildlife protection area. The Maasai of Loliondo have accused the government of trying […]

Nigerian troops have found two former schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram jihadists eight years ago, the military said Tuesday, freeing some of the last victims of the 2014 Chibok abduction. The two women each carried babies on their […]

University students in Africa can now transfer credits through the African Credit Transfer system (ACT that was created to bring African institutions of higher learning closer and promote free movement of students across the continent. Currently, higher education systems on […]

The death toll from an earthquake in Afghanistan on Wednesday hit 1,000, disaster management officials said, with more than 600 injured and the toll is expected to grow as information trickles in from remote mountain villages. Houses were reduced to […]

A diary business built by late Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe from land seized from a white commercial farmer has closed shop as huge debts suffocated its operations. Mugabe, who ruled the southern African country with an iron fist for nearly […]

Ugandan musician and opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi says he is working “day and night” to see the end of President Yoweri Museveni’s rule, even though he argues it is not a personal ambition. Kyagulanyi, known by his stage name Bobi […]

Zimbabwe’s health workers and teachers on Monday went on strike over poor pay and working conditions as they rejected a 100 percent salary increase offered by the government at the weekend. Health workers such as nurses, junior doctors and radiographers […]

South Africa is considering lifting the remaining Covid-19 regulations as daily new cases remain low. A sharp decline in hospitalisation and deaths has left the country wanting to lift all measures that have been in place to mitigate the pandemic. […]

The UN Commission on Human Rights is alarmed over the rising tensions and hate speech in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as EAC Heads of State met in Nairobi on Monday to discuss the security situation. In a statement […]

Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed a request to change her name in accordance with her new gender identity and because “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied frosty relations between Pretoria and Kigali is the reason he will not be attending this week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM in Rwanda. Mr Ramaphosa will, however, take part in Thursday’s BRICS […]

East African Community heads of state on Monday directed that a regional force be deployed to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. “The deployed EAC regional force should, in cooperation with the military and administrative forces of the DRC, seek […]

The East African Community (EAC leaders will be in Nairobi on Monday for a meeting convened by President Uhuru Kenyatta to discuss the security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The EAC conclave, whose members are Kenya, DR […]

Rwanda President Paul Kagame and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Felix Tshisekedi are meeting in Nairobi for the first time since Kinshasa accused Kigali of supporting the M23 rebels who are wreaking havoc in eastern DRC. The gathering at State […]

Congo’s first prime minister, Patrice Emery Lumumba, will finally have a burial in the Democratic Republic of Congo — 61 years after his assassination — as Belgium returns to the family of the Congolese independence hero his remains, a tooth […]

As world leaders descend on Kigali for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, questions linger about the organisation’s relevance in the 21st Century. This year’s theme is “Delivering a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming”. Read:Kigali day schools to close for […]

Heads of Government are expected to decide on the next substantive Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat in Kigali this week. Although the decision is made by consensus, should the leaders decide not to reappoint the incumbent Baroness Patricia Scotland — […]

Somalia’s Prime Minister nominee Hamza Abdi Barre, 48, may have been a surprise considering he hails from Jubbaland, but he and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud go way back before they both joined politics. Moments after President Mohamud presented him at […]