Chad’s opposition and civil society groups are asking France to immediately withdraw troops who arrived in Chad after being ordered to depart neighboring Niger by that country’s military junta. Ordjei Abderahim Chaha, president of the opposition party Rally for Justice […]
At the request of Sudanese authorities, the UN Security Council on Friday ended the world body’s political mission in the African country ravaged by more than seven months of fighting between two rival generals. Following a letter from Khartoum demanding […]
Kenyan High Court judges have this week issued orders against the enforcement of new social housing and healthcare taxes, delivering a major blow to President William Ruto’s quest to push through his bottom-up economic agenda. The separate rulings made within […]
Controversial Kenyan preacher Paul Mackenzie has been jailed for a year and a half for illegally distributing unrated films to support his radical sermons. Mackenzie was also jailed for a further six months for operating a film studio without a […]
Israel’s military said Friday it had resumed fighting in Gaza, with airstrikes and artillery fire reported in Gaza City, as a truce expired with no agreement to extend it. “Hamas violated the operational pause, and in addition, fired toward Israeli […]
Presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo are campaigning in the nation’s conflict-wracked east, holding rallies where the mood is festive — even if the issue of security is never far from the surface. Moise Katumbi, a wealthy businessman […]
Guinea-Bissau National Guard soldiers freed two members of the government who were being questioned by the police on Thursday night, before exchanging gunfire with special forces, according to military and intelligence sources. The Minister of Economy and Finance Souleiman Seidiand […]
Mamadou Pethe Diallo, Guinea’s former health minister, who was fired earlier this month, has been charged with alleged acts of embezzling public funds and illicit enrichment, his lawyers said Thursday. Guinea’s governing junta led by ColMamady Doumbouya, who seized power […]
Henry Kissinger, who sexed up the art of diplomacy in the eight years between 1969 and 1977, has died at the age of 100. In the obituaries that have been written, some laud Kissinger’s role in the shaping of East-West relations while […]
A court hearing opened in Nairobi on Wednesday into a lawsuit over the 2012 death of a young Kenyan mother who was last seen alive with a British soldier. However, the hearing was almost immediately adjourned until May, prompting criticism […]
The Sudanese Armed Forces (Saf on Tuesday announced the beginning of a ground campaign to march on the Sudanese capital to “eliminate” the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF. “The army has begun a campaign. All the (military areas are ready, […]
Senegal’s military has seized more than three tonnes of cocaine from a ship moored off the coast, in one of the country’s largest drugs hauls, the navy said Tuesday. Naval authorities said there were 10 crew on board — one […]
Uganda’s Constitutional Court has set December 11 to hearfour petitions challenging the legality of the Anti-Homosexuality Law that was enacted in May 2023. The court set the date after the petitioners agreed to consolidate all four petitions and 19 applications […]
Kenya’s National El Niño Steering Committee saidfloods have killed a total of 120 people, with Tana River, Garissa, Wajir and Mandera counties worst hit. Nine other counties are on high alert. Addressing the media Principal Secretary, Ministry of Internal Security […]
Sierra Leonean authorities were treating clashes that killed 21 people in the capital Freetown at the weekend as a failed coup attempt, officials told reporters on Tuesday. Freetown residents woke up to gunfire and explosions on Sunday and experienced several […]
Kenyans will continue paying the Housing Levyalbeit for the next one month, after the High Court suspended an earlier judgement that found the law unconstitutional until Januaryto allow the government to move to the Court of Appeal. The court suspended […]
Two Madagascar army colonels have been detained and charged with inciting a mutiny during the country’s recent presidential election, a top prosecutor and investigators said Tuesday. The charges were announced only three days after Andry Rajoelina secured a new term […]
Nigerian authorities have launched a probe in an incident where a domestic flight landed in an unscheduled destination. The incidentcaused an uproar among aviationstakeholders over air transport security, after the United Nigeria Airline flight NUA 0506 with more than 232 […]
The Sudanese army and paramilitary forces traded fire Monday across the Nile River in the capital Khartoum, witnesses said, in the eighth month of a war rights groups say has been rife with atrocities. Artillery and rocket fire criss-crossed over […]
Clashes that shook Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Sunday left 13 dead in the ranks of the army loyal to the government, and were orchestrated by active and retired soldiers, the army spokesperson said Monday. “We have launched a manhunt […]
Somalia’s admission to the East African Community now hands the mandate to the bloc to fix the Horn of Africa country’s fluid and volatile security under the region’s strategy that seeks to guide regional level interventions in the peace and […]
Renewed pressure from the United States (US on both Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo seems to be bearing early fruit after Kinshasa banned its troops from having any links or working relations with the Rwandan rebel group, Forces […]
The Heads of State Summit has accepted Somalia into the East African Community, becoming the eighth member of the regional bloc boasting more than 300 million people, about 25 percent of Africa’s population. Somalia applied to join the community between […]
From a high vantage point, the lines of trucks and cars stretch as far as the eye can see in both directions – South Africa’s major arterial export route from the mining, industrial and manufacturing heartland has once again been […]
Madagascar’s incumbent President Andry Rajoelina has won the presidential election by garnering more than 50 percent of the votes, according to preliminary results released Saturday by the country’s Independent National Electoral Commission (Ceni. The Ceniannounced that Rajoelina obtained a total […]
