Mozambique is looking for another IMF support program after its earlier one was terminated. Despite the program ending early, the country still has many debt and financing issues. The conclusion of the IMF team, which visited Mozambique up until September 18, showed that additional reforms should be conducted before launching a new IMF program. Unsustainability […]
Barrick’s Loulo-Gounkoto gold mine in Mali is facing threats of labour disruption from September 28 due to the issuance of a strike notice by unions representing workers at the gold complex over unresolved issues such as overtime pay, mission costs, and labor agreements. This strike comes at a time when the mine is recovering from […]
The Ghana Navy is in hot pursuit of pirates who hijacked a vessel from the Tema anchorage and proceeded towards Togolese waters but abandoned the operation midway. The Flag Officer Commanding the Eastern Naval Command Commodore, James Kontoh, said this shortly after a Ghana Navy operation rescued five persons, one of them a Ghanaian, from […]
The United States on Tuesday imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians it said were involved in trying to undermine democracy in presidential and parliamentary elections this year. The U.S. State Department however did not name the individuals or say how many were affected by the visa restrictions. President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term in February […]
Cameroon’s security forces put down a riot by prisoners who ransacked and burnt a jail in the capital Yaounde overnight, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday. The rioters, many of them government opponents or supporters of an English-speaking separatist movement in the country’s west, filmed their protest and posted elements to Facebook. Several inmates were injured, […]
Staff members at upmarket jewellery store in Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, were showing expensive watches and rings to an interested “customer” when they suddenly found themselves being robbed of goods worth R8m. According to Sandton police spokesperson Captain Granville Meyer, three suspects – two men and a woman – entered the House of […]
Ethiopia’s government said on Monday it would deploy soldiers and federal police to take over security in a restive southern region following days of violence that has left at least 18 people dead. “The regular security structure has been unable to ensure rule of law and has been stymied by various agendas,” said a statement […]
South Sudan’s information minister Michael Makuei said on Monday that the country’s cabinet had banned anyone from singing the national anthem unless the president is present. Makuei told AFP that different leaders and institutions were playing the anthem at whim, which was an abuse of the national tune, written shortly before independence in 2011. “For […]
A protest by members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) turned violent on Monday in Abuja. The protesters reportedly clashed with security agencies close to the Federal Secretariat in the Nigerian capital. Monday’s incident comes about two weeks after two Shiites were killed and two police officers injured after a similar protest turned violent […]
South Africa’s highest court has ruled that the public protector – the state official in charge of investigating corruption – had lied under oath and acted in bad faith. The devastating judgement will add weight to claims that Busisiwe Mkwebane is involved in a dirty-tricks campaign to undermine President Cyril Ramaphosa and halt his campaign […]
Human Rights Watch has accused Cameroon security forces of killing at least four civilians and raped one woman in mid June during operations in the North West region of Cameroon. Amongst those killed was an an elderly man with a physical disability and a young man with a mental disability, Human Rights Watch said. “These […]
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said he will seek an urgent judicial review of what he described as an irretrievably flawed report in which the country’s graft watchdog said he misled parliament over a campaign donation. Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s report followed an investigation by the watchdog into a 500,000 rand ($35,878.56) donation […]
Two persons have been handed a total of 40 years in jail by the Kasoa Circuit Court presided over by His Lordship Ebenezer Osei Darko. The two Daniel Amoah and Yaw Danso were convicted on the charge of conspiracy to commit crime to wit robbery. The two were alleged to have attacked a mobile money […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa will brief the nation on Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s report on allegations that he violated the Executive Ethics Code of conduct related to a Bosasa donation. The presidency announced that Ramaphosa will hold the briefing in Pretoria on Sunday at 18:00 at the Union Buildings. “Members of the media are invited to […]
At least 17 people have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian security forces and activists seeking a new autonomous region for their Sidama ethnic group, according to a local official and hospital authorities. A local district official told Reuters news agency on Saturday that at least 13 people were killed in a town near Hawassa […]
British Airways and Lufthansa have suspended flights to Egypt’s capital, Cairo, over unspecified security concerns, giving no details about what may have prompted the move. “We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment,” […]
A man was stabbed during a fight in central London where Algeria football fans were celebrating winning the Africa Cup of Nations. Algeria won the tournament on Friday and fans had congregated in Trafalgar Square for two nights in a row to celebrate. The Metropolitan Police said that at about 01:20 BST a man in […]
Former President Jacob Zuma has threatened to reveal more ANC “secrets” if his detractors don’t back off. Zuma on Friday addressed hundreds of supporters from a stage in Pieter Roos Park after his appearance at the Zondo commission. He was in a threatening mood. “Some say this old man is angry,” he said. “All I’m […]
There are indications that some Nigerians may be affected in the ongoing raids on undocumented aliens ordered by the United States President, Mr Donald Trump. It reported that ICE agents were targeting at least 2,000 immigrants for deportation across 10 major cities and could also sweep up immigrants who were not the initial targets. The […]
In an unprecedented move, Eritrean bishops in the Orthodox church have expelled their former patriarch, Abune Antonios. Antonios, who was the head of the church until 2006, was accused of heresy in a statement signed by a group of top bishops. He has for a long time been a critic of the government and was […]