The son of Gabon’s deposed presidentAli Bongo Ondimba and several of his allieshave been charged with high treason and corruption and placed in custody, the state prosecutor told AFPon Wednesday. ‘Bongo’s eldest son Noureddin Bongo Valentin and former presidential spokesman […]

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund have confirmed that their annual meetings will go ahead in Morocco as planned next month despite a deadly earthquake near the event site. The 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Al-Haouz province south of Marrakesh on […]

Several Kenya Defence Forces (KDF soldiers aboard a Kenya Air Force Huey chopper have died in a crash within the terror prone Boni Forest in Lamu County. Confirming the incident on Tuesday, Military Strategic Communications head Brigadier Zipporah Kioko said […]

Over 1,200 children have died in Sudan refugee camps since May, while thousands of newborns are likely to die across the war-torn country by year-end, the United Nations said Tuesday. The UNsounded the alarm over the impact the crisis in […]

In a Libyan hospital ward, trauma and grief mix with disbelief and anger among the survivors of the flood disaster that killed untold thousands in the devastated city of Derna. A tsunami-sized flash flood crashed through the Mediterranean city, razing […]

Kenya’s Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has called on African leaders in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC to prioritise peaceful resolution of conflicts as a means to entice warring factions to end Violence. Gachagua spoke to an audience […]

The African Union is finally at the high table, having been admitted to the Group of 20 (G20 biggest economies of the world last week. Or is it? At the African Union, officials praised me move, indicating it could elevate […]

Kenya’s President William Ruto is receiving a fair rating on his first year in office as far as regional integration is concerned, even though analysts point to domestic economic woes as a potential banana skin. Since he was sworn into […]

Sudan military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s bid to seek international support and isolate his rivals in the Rapid Support Forces is being undermined by tales of atrocities back home, signaling an endless war. This week, Lt-Gen Burhan travelled to Ankara […]

An Egyptian court has sentenced prominent dissident Hisham Kassem to six months in prison, his lawyer and political movement said, a move barring him from taking part in campaigning for next year’s presidential election. It comes one day after Egypt’s […]

South Sudan’s intended transition to a full democracy is getting stuck in the mud, five years after a peace agreement was signed between various protagonists giving the country some semblance of stability. There has been sporadic violence, mostly between government […]

Kenya’s President William Ruto flew to the US Wednesday to attend the 78th United Nations General Assembly session in New York, in week he marked his administration’s first anniversary. His delegation has also used the trip to court American companies […]

Aid groups warned of growing risk posed by the spread of disease that could compound the humanitarian crisis in Libya, as hopes dwindled Saturday of finding more survivors days after deadly flooding. Sunday’s flash floods submerged the port city of […]

Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF are facing new allegations of atrocities in Amhara region, just a month after authorities in Addis Ababa imposed a state of emergency in the area to deal with a local rebellion. And the Amhara Association […]

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ordered Tanzania to remove corporal punishment from its laws to bring them in line with the Charter establishing the court. In its September 5 ruling on an appeal by Yassin Rashid […]

Zulu prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a powerful but divisive leader implicated in a wave of deadly violence that marked the birth of modern South Africa, will be laid to rest in a state funeral on Saturday. Thousands are expected to pay […]

The continued withdrawal of troops under the African Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis) could spread the burden of countering violent extremism to the region, making it an eastern African problem. And that may signal both success and new challenges for […]

The international community has developed fatigue over the Sudan conflict as the country veers towards a failed state, rights watchdogs say. A group of 50 human rights organisations led by theExecutive Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW, Tirana Hassan says […]

The cost of rebuilding Libya to its old self may have gone up by several billions of dollars after a devastating flood swept through its land, killing thousands and destroying homes of others. By Friday, the death toll was still […]

Kinshasa again sounded the alarm Thursday over the humanitarian tragedy being caused by Rwandan “aggression” inside the Democratic Republic of Congo, ahead of the UN General Assembly next week. Communications Minister Patrick Muyaya and Justice Minister Rose Mutombo set out […]

The Pan-African Parliament is, yet again, thrust in bad light over leadership wrangles and financial strains that have become a routine punctuation on its work. This week, the perennial crisis is threatening the upcoming 2nd Ordinary Session due in October […]

A global aid effort for disaster-hit Libya gathered pace Thursday after a tsunami-sized flash flood ripped through a coastal city and killed at least 4,000 people, with thousands more missing and feared dead. The enormous surge of water burst two […]

A Democratic Republic of Congopolitician Jean-Marc Kabund, a former close associate of President Felix Tshisekedi, has been sentenced to 84 months of penal servitude, the equivalent of seven years in jail, just three months to the country’s scheduled General Election. […]

Men draw water from a well to transport it by donkey to the makeshift camp where they have been living since their village was destroyed in the massive earthquake that devastated Southern Morocco last week. Living conditions in Ighermane, a […]