Deputy Minister Bernice Swarts oversees South Africa's 10 million tree cover expansion project spanning five years from her office as Forestry, Fisheries, and Environment minister. South African staff members started "One Employee One Tree" in…
Liberal Parties Gain Lead in Morocco Electionsin Preliminary…
Liberal RNI party of Morocco has secured majority seats in the parliamentary elections. On the other hand, preliminary results show co-ruling moderate PJD Islamists have faced a crushing defeat. The coalition party in previous two…
Guinea Has Been Suspended by ECOWAS Following a…
Following a recent coup in Guinea, the West African bloc ECOWAS has decided to suspend the country, according to Burkinabe Foreign Minister Alpha Barry. Barry told reporters in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, that the Economic…
G7 Countries Urge Tunisia to Resume Constitutional Path
The Group of Seven (the G7) countries, yesterday, urged Tunisian President Kais Saied to select and name a prime minister as soon as possible. This statement - asking Tunisia to return to the constitutional norms…
A Top Jihadist Fugitive, Embarak Al-Khazimi, has been…
Libyan authorities announced on Tuesday that a senior member of the Islamic State (IS) was apprehended in a raid south of Tripoli. The capture of Embarak al-Khazimi was "a great success for our security forces,"…
Zimbabwe Unions Take Employers to Court for Compelling…
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has taken the government and six companies to court for asking thousands of workers to get vaccinated with one of the Covid-19 vaccines else be prepared to get…
A Tunisian wounded in the Arab Spring sets…
After the government failed to compensate a young man injured in Tunisia's 2011 revolution, he burned himself alive. The self-immolation of 26-year-old Neji Hefiane harkens back to the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor…
The Guinean military claims the president has been…
In a video supplied to an AFP correspondent on Sunday, Guinea's special forces claimed to have arrested President Alpha Conde and "dissolved" the country's institutions, while the defense ministry stated it had repelled their attack…
Former South African president Zuma awarded medical parole
The former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has been freed on medical parole - two months after he was imprisoned due to contempt charges. It was revealed by the government’s department of correctional services…
Several were arrested from Tanzania’s main opposition party,…
Tanzanian authorities have arrested numerous members of the country's largest opposition Chadema party, marking the country's latest crackdown on a group advocating constitutional reform. It came after President Samia Suluhu Hassan's government detained Chadema leader…
After trying all other routes, African Union finally…
The political situation in Somalia has been degrading since the country let in foreign involvement in internal matters and gave up its military power in search for regional control. Now as the things are reaching…
US agency accuses Tigrayan forces of looting aid…
Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region looted warehouses, in recent weeks, belonging to a US humanitarian agency in the Amhara region - said USAID's mission director, Sean Jones, in Ethiopia on Tuesday. “Rebels in the war-torn…
In Nigeria, thousands of Boko Haram fighters have…
The Nigerian military claims that approximately 6,000 Boko Haram members have surrendered to authorities in the previous several weeks, including commanders, fighters, and their families. Hundreds of Boko Haram members have reportedly surrendered in Cameroon.…
In Nigeria, gunmen abducted 73 students just days…
Gunmen kidnapped 73 students in yet another school attack in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, prompting authorities in Zamfara state to close all primary and secondary schools. The new kidnappings occurred just days after three other…
Libyan Parliament speaker calls for holding planned elections…
Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh has stressed the need for holding general elections in the country in December 2021 as per schedule. On Wednesday, Saleh held a meeting with Spanish ambassador to Libya Javier Garcia-Larrache…
Preserve content of rights abuses in Afghanistan: Human…
Leading human rights groups, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Access Now, Mnemonic have called on social media platforms to preserve and archive all content relevant to provide evidence of incidents of human rights abuses…
Freeman Mbowe, the Tanzanian opposition leader, appeared in…
Tanzania's main opposition leader appeared in court on Tuesday to face terrorism charges in a case his party described as a politically motivated attempt to suppress dissent. Police allegedly tortured Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe…
The son of Mozambique’s ex-president denies enabling hidden…
On Monday, the son of Mozambique's ex-president, Armando Guebuza, denied taking bribes to facilitate a $2 billion secret government loan that plunged the country into a financial crisis. Ndambi Guebuza, Guebuza's eldest son, is one…
Tanzania’s main opposition leader in court to face…
Leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party, Freeman Mbowe, appeared in court to face “terrorism” charges - a case termed by his supporters “a politically motivated one”. His supporters claim that the move to chain Mbowe…
