According to the latest report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Zambia is among the ten African countries expected to record the strongest economic growth in 2025. The report forecasts that Zambia's gross domestic product…
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…
Mali releases former interim president and PM from…
Former Malian interim president Bah Ndaw and prime minister Moctar Ouane have been released from house arrest - confirmed West African bloc ECOWAS on Friday. In a released statement, the Economic Community of West African…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visits Uganda and…
The African Union (AU) appointed a mediator in the crisis that has engulfed northern Ethiopia for nearly a year, prompting Tigray rebels to accuse the AU of "bias." "It would be naive to think this…
Rally to request end the killing of journalists…
Thousands of media journalists gathered in Goma being dressed in black attires to pay tribute to fellow pressmen who murdered in the last four months in Congo’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces. As stated in…
At the Berlin summit, African leaders renewed their…
African leaders gathered in Germany for a summit renewed their calls for Covid-19 vaccine patent waivers, claiming that the decision would provide countries with more affordable vaccines. Africa has received the fewest vaccines of any…
Hundreds of kidnapped students in Nigeria have been…
After gunmen freed them from forest hideouts, nearly 100 Nigerian school children kidnapped three months ago from an Islamic seminary were reunited with their parents on Friday. The tegina seminary abduction in northwest Niger State…
